Publications

Mr. Xirouhakis’ interview / Kathimerini 8.6.2020

The pandemic in addition to the health effects with hundreds of thousands of dead, will cause strong shocks in the medium to long term in the building of organized societies and will leave deep, indelible marks on economies and societies worldwide. Poverty and social inequality are expected to widen, while the world’s economies are already […]
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Mr. Xirouhakis’ interview/ Kathimerini 18.11.2019

The banks are facing the perfect storm! When the outgoing head of the ECB cut the key deposit rate again to -0.50% last September, many were quick to point to the swan song of an admittedly successful European central banker as a harbinger of new troubles for the European banking industry.Negative interest rates mean, oversimplified, […]
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Mr. Xirouhakis’ interview Kathimerini 12.8.19

Over the last twelve years, tons of ink have been spent worldwide to explain the multiple and complex causes of the unprecedented failure of all stakeholders (shareholders, investors, management, supervisors, advisors, academics, etc.) to predict the upcoming financial and determine, even post mortem, its true generative cause. This bitter failure has led the global banking […]
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