Interviews and expert commentary
On the record for the Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Börsen-Zeitung, Spiegel, tagesschau, Deutsche Welle, CNBC and the Associated Press, on private credit, banks and European capital markets.
2025–2026
tagesschau.de
Brexit-Bilanz: Frankfurt stärkt Rolle als Finanzplatz der EU
Bankgeheimnis (Bundesverband deutscher Banken)
Podcast, episode 56: Kreditfonds — private credit in corporate finance, US versus Europe, transparency
Focus
Revolut: Die Super-App, vor der sich Europas Banken fürchten
WEB.DE / GMX
Droht durch Private Credit die nächste Finanzkrise?
Spiegel
Börse und Crash-Propheten: »Wenn Sie lange genug Krisen vorhersagen, liegen Sie irgendwann richtig«
tagesschau.de
Update Wirtschaft
Financial Times
How Apollo escaped Germany's private equity trap
Archive
Tagesschau, Deutsche Welle, Zeit Online, Spiegel, Börsen-Zeitung, Associated Press, Reuters, Handelsblatt, Wirtschaftswoche, Stern, Capital
The March 2023 banking turmoil: interviews and quotes used in more than 1,000 outlets in 38 countries
Tagesschau, 13 Mar 2023 (TV)
Deutsche Welle, 14 Mar 2023 (TV)
Deutsche Welle, 21 Mar 2023 (TV)
Zeit Online, 14 Mar 2023
Börsen-Zeitung, 14 Mar 2023
Spiegel, 15 Mar 2023
Associated Press, 15 Mar 2023
Reuters, 22 Mar 2023
Stern, 23 Mar 2023
Associated Press, 24 Mar 2023
Wirtschaftswoche, 24 Mar 2023
Handelsblatt, 31 Mar 2023
Associated Press, 1 Apr 2023
Bloomberg, Fortune, FAZ, Project Syndicate
Coverage of the Jackson Hole paper "Liquidity Dependence" (with Acharya, Chauhan and Rajan)
CNBC, The New York Times, Financial Times, FAZ, Börsen-Zeitung, Handelsblatt
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, COVID capital rules, AI in monetary policy
FAZ, 23 Sep 2021: Banken allein schaffen es nicht
Börsen-Zeitung, 15 Jul 2021: Steffen soll Forschungsorientierung voranbringen
Handelsblatt, 7 May 2021: Mit KI wollen Frankfurter Forscher die Geldpolitik effizienter machen
Börsen-Zeitung, 27 Mar 2020: Alle Banken rekapitalisieren
Financial Times, 19 Mar 2020: Banks plead for rethink over post-crisis rules
CNBC, 19 Mar 2019: A lot of reasons Deutsche-Commerzbank merger may not work
The New York Times, 25 Feb 2019: Do Two Troubled Banks Make One Good One?
Bloomberg, Financial Times
ECB asset quality review and stress tests; managerial attributes and bank risk
Financial Times, 19 Jun 2016: Personalities key in shaping banks' risk taking
Financial Times, 9 Nov 2014: How could ECB have produced results so different from ours? (letter)
Financial Times, 30 Oct 2014: Alternative stress tests cannot compare with those of the ECB (letter from Société Générale)
Bloomberg, 18 Jan 2014: European banks face €1 trillion gap before review
Short and long bio, headshots and the affiliation line are in the speaker kit. Radar press releases are issued by the Frankfurt School press office; data questions come to me directly.
I provide background to journalists on private credit, BDC filings, European fund structures and bank–nonbank links. Not for attribution unless agreed.