Friedhold Hermann is the head of the representative office of Landesbank Berlin in Moscow. Landesbank Berlin AG is a public sector universal bank headquartered in the German capital, whose business model is based on four pillars: retail banking; regional corporate banking; capital markets; and real estate financing. It has been active in Russia since the 1970s and opened its Moscow representative office in 1993.

1. What motivated you to come to the Sochi forum? What do you expect from it?