Cristina Torrella
Cristina Torrella
Senior Director
FitchRatings, Spain
Cristina Torrella Fajas serves as a Senior Director at Fitch Ratings, where she built a long-standing experience of more than 25 years in assessing financial institutions, particularly in the context of Southern Europe. Operating from Barcelona, she is currently responsible for bank ratings in Spain, Greece, Cyprus, and Andorra. Her role encompasses critical interactions with a diverse set of stakeholders, including banks' senior management, regulators, institutional investors, credit analysts, and the media. She has also spearheaded various banking and country analysis publications and presentations, upholding FitchRatings’ role as a prominent banking industry voice.
Thursday 11
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14.25 - 15.25
Banking Sector in Greece and Challenges Ahead
Leto Hall | Amalia Hotel
Programming Partner: European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
The banking sector in Greece has made big strides in recent years to improve performance and strengthen balance sheets. Greek banks’ profitability should continue to improve this year, even amid a weak economic outlook in Europe and higher funding costs. The question is how can banks ensure that growth is sustainable in the long-term? What are the weaknesses they still need to address to compete in a financial sector which evolve quickly?