Budapest Stock Exchange

Attila Bánfi, Managing Director

ESG issues are becoming an increasingly important part of investors’ and financial service providers’ interests, and even decisions, so there is a growing focus on environmentally and socially responsible and sustainable investment instruments. In doing so, the market is responding not only to climate ambitions and human rights consid- erations, but also to the business opportunities offered by sustainability. This is also a reshaping of OTP Bank’s operations and product range, so the bank, which recently became the first in Hungary to issue green mortgage bonds, is constantly looking for new green financing opportunities. We discussed this change in market attitudes with Attila Bánfi, Managing Director of OTP Global Markets, who wrote his doctoral thesis on ESG, ethical finance and socially responsible finance.

Bence Katona, Chief Executive Officer

In the four years since its launch, the MFB Group’s venture capital fund manager Hiventures has developed unique capital financing products for start-ups, SMEs and large corporates in the Hungarian market.