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Ingrid Spletter-Weiß, born in 1966 in Wolfenbüttel (Lower Saxony), has been a member of the Executive Board of Norddeutsche Landesbank (NORD/LB) in Hanover since December 1, 2021. She is responsible for the Corporate Clients and Affiliated Business divisions as well as Markets. In addition, she oversees Relationship Management for Saxony-Anhalt, Relationship Asia in Singapore, and the private and business clients of BLSK in Braunschweig.
Thomas Müller has been with Norddeutsche Landesbank since 2017. He is Head of Institutional Sales in the Markets division. Previously, he was responsible at DekaBank for the distribution of capital market and asset management products to insurance companies and pension funds. At Deutsche Bank, he worked in Global Markets as an expert for banks and emerging markets.
Christian Lips (CIIA/CEFA) has been Chief Economist at NORD/LB since 2018 and has been responsible for economic analyses and forecasts related to the business cycle, monetary policy, as well as interest rate and exchange rate developments for more than 17 years. From 2014 to 2016, the graduate economist also prepared the economic forecast for the Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research (NIW).
For his forecasting accuracy, he has received numerous awards, including multiple top placements in the ThomsonReuters/Starmine Award. Additionally, the magazine €uro has repeatedly named him Interest Rate Forecaster of the Year. Christian Lips has been engaged for years in various teaching and lecturing activities and represents NORD/LB in committees of the VÖB, DSGV, and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK). Furthermore, he is involved on the board of the Monetärer Workshop e.V., promoting exchange and networking among central bankers, politicians, and financial experts from academia and practice.
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Julien Marchand has been serving as Head of Origination FI/SSA at Norddeutsche Landesbank since June 2019. He has been part of the DCM team since 2011 and is responsible for the Northern Europe and France regions. The DCM business of NORD/LB is centrally managed from Hanover and covers mandates in Europe, North America, and the APAC region. In doing so, the bank not only provides its clients on the issuance side access to international institutional investors but specifically also to regional German-speaking investors, including savings banks and cooperative banks, bank treasuries, fund managers, insurance companies, and pension funds.
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Eivind Hegelstad ist der Finanzvorstand der SpareBank 1 Boligkreditt (SpaBol). Die Mutterbanken von SpaBol in der SpareBank 1 Allianz bilden zusammen das zweitgrößte Finanzinstitut Norwegens. Die Banken finanzieren ihre gedeckten Anleihen durch ihre hundertprozentige Tochtergesellschaft SpareBank 1 Boligkreditt, die auf die Emission von gedeckten Anleihen spezialisiert ist und diese häufig begibt. Eivind Hegelstad kam 2011 zu SpareBank 1 und war davor bei Citigroup Global Markets tätig. Er besitzt einen MSc-Abschluss der Mannheim Business School und ist CFA Charterholder. Bei SpaBol ist er zudem für die Anlegerbeziehungen verantwortlich.
Marcel Bleser (CFA) ist seit 2008 im Fixed Income Handel tätig. Seit 2011 ist er in der NORD/LB für den Handel von Covererd Bond Benchmarks zuständig. Dabei stellt er Kunden Liquidität zur Verfügung. Das Universum erstreckt sich dabei auf rund 1200 Anleihen aus 24 Jurisdiktionen.
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14:45 – 15:45 60 minutesChoose your market:
Market 1: Immobilienmarkt Deutschland „Knapp, knapper, deutscher Wohnungsmarkt? – Preise, Mieten und Verfügbarkeit“
Jens Tolckmitt, born in 1971, has been Chief Executive Officer of the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (vdp) since 2009.
From January 2003 to May 2009, he was the sole Managing Director of the Association of Foreign Banks in Germany. Between 1998 and 2002, he held various positions at the Association of German Mortgage Banks — the predecessor organization of the vdp — most recently as Head of the Covered Bond/Capital Markets division. Tolckmitt holds a degree in economics, with a focus on monetary macroeconomics and finance.
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Market 2: „Wohn- und Hypothekenmarkt Niederlande: Stabil, gefragt, renditestark“
Toine Teulings joined the Treasury department of NIBC Bank in October 2005 with a focus on long-term funding. In his current role he combines his funding responsibilities with debt investor relations and rating agencies. From 1996 to 2005 Toine worked for SNS REAAL where he held positions in Private Banking, Treasury and Asset Management.
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Market 3: „Nordlichter, Natur und Neubauten: Der Immobilienmarkt in Norwegen“
Eivind Hegelstad is SpareBank 1 Boligkreditt’s (SpaBol) CFO. SpaBol’s parent banks in the SpareBank 1 Alliance are together Norway’s second largest financial institution. The banks pursue their covered bond funding jointly through their wholly owned SpareBank 1 Boligkreditt subsidiary, a specialist covered bond issuer, which is also a frequent issuer of covered bonds. Eivind Hegelstad joined SpareBank 1 in 2011 and worked previously at Citigroup Global Markets. He holds a MSc from Germany’s Mannheim University Business School and is also a CFA charter holder. He is at SpaBol also responsible for investor relations.
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Dr Norman Rudschuck (CIIA) is an analyst in the Public Issuers/SSA segment within Floor Research, where he covers the public sector as an issuer — ranging from municipalities and federal states or provinces to agencies and supranationals. He has many years of capital market experience and, from 2009 to 2014, was responsible for macroeconomic forecasts related to the United Kingdom (including the Bank of England, GILT yields, and exchange rates). Additionally, he analyzed the gold price and worked for NORD/LB in London.
Dr Rudschuck studied economics at Leibniz University Hannover, where he earned his diploma in 2009. He completed his doctorate part-time at the Institute for Insurance Management (IVBL) at the same university in 2018.
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Sandra Navidi is a bestselling author as well as the founder and CEO of the New York-based consulting firm BeyondGlobal. She is well connected in the international financial and business world and is a frequent guest in the media. She is admitted to the bar both in the U.S. and in Germany. Ms. Navidi served as an advisor to the successful ZDF series “Bad Banks,” in which she also made guest appearances.
Since July 2009, Martin Hartmann has been Head of Markets, the global capital markets division of Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover. Markets focuses on trading fixed-income securities for German and international institutional investors and also includes the bank’s (FI) DCM segment. In addition, the division manages trading in financial instruments (interest rates and foreign exchange) with the customers of the wholesale franchise. Raising NORD/LB funding is also part of the division’s responsibilities.
Thomas Müller has been with Norddeutsche Landesbank since 2017. He is Head of Institutional Sales in the Markets division. Previously, he was responsible at DekaBank for the distribution of capital market and asset management products to insurance companies and pension funds. At Deutsche Bank, he worked in Global Markets as an expert for banks and emerging markets.
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Since July 2009, Martin Hartmann has been Head of Markets, the global capital markets division of Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover. Markets focuses on trading fixed-income securities for German and international institutional investors and also includes the bank’s (FI) DCM segment. In addition, the division manages trading in financial instruments (interest rates and foreign exchange) with the customers of the wholesale franchise. Raising NORD/LB funding is also part of the division’s responsibilities.
Thomas Müller has been with Norddeutsche Landesbank since 2017. He is Head of Institutional Sales in the Markets division. Previously, he was responsible at DekaBank for the distribution of capital market and asset management products to insurance companies and pension funds. At Deutsche Bank, he worked in Global Markets as an expert for banks and emerging markets.
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Dr Frederik Kunze is responsible for International Sales in the Markets division of NORD/LB. Prior to this, he spent several years in Floor Research, analyzing national and international markets for covered bonds. He has been with NORD/LB since 2009 and has held various positions in Research and Credit Risk Controlling.
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Tommy Piemonte has been working as an Engagement Manager since June 2025 following the merger of Pax-Bank für Kirche und Caritas eG. He joined Bank für Kirche und Caritas as Head of Sustainable Investment Research in 2016. Mr. Piemonte is mainly responsible for the engagement activities of the bank, i.e. the active exertion of influence on companies, countries or other investment objects with regard to their sustainability efforts. In this context, he is also the Bank’s representative and a founding member of the European engagement network of institutional investors Shareholders for Change. His expertise also helps in the further development, operational implementation and monitoring of the bank’s ethically-sustainable investment strategy as well as in the development and implementation of an individual, ethically-sustainable investment strategy for the bank’s institutional clients.
Prior to joining the Bank für Kirche und Caritas, Tommy Piemonte was Head of the sustainability rating agency imug in Hanover (now EthiFinance). Mr. Piemonte studied economics in Nürtingen (Germany) and Rome (Italy). The graduate economist supplemented his experience in sustainability research with many years of experience in the financial market, including as a securities specialist at Deutsche Bank. With this combination of experiences,
Mr. Piemonte has written numerous publications on sustainable investment.
Since July 2024, Sabrina Miehs has been working at the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (vdp), where she holds a cross-functional role as Head of Sustainable Finance.
In addition to her responsibility for the field of Sustainable Finance, she also supports the vdp’s activities at the European level in cooperation with the Brussels office.
Prior to joining the vdp, Ms. Miehs worked at Helaba for 11 years. Most recently, she served as a Senior Advisor in the Sustainable Finance Advisory Team and was responsible for FI & SSA Research. Starting in 2013, she established Covered Bond Research at the bank.
Before her time at Helaba, she spent 10 years at Standard & Poor’s, initially as a rating analyst for European securitisations, and later as a covered bond rating analyst and Head of the German as well as Deputy Head of the European Covered Bond Team. During this period, she contributed, among other things, to the development of rating methodologies.
Prior to her role at S&P, Ms. Miehs gained experience as a credit analyst at BHF-Bank, focusing on bank balance sheet analysis and trade finance. She began her professional career after completing her training as a bank clerk at Frankfurter Sparkasse, where she worked in various departments. Ms. Miehs holds a degree in Business Administration (Diplom-Betriebswirt) from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a Maîtrise en Ingénierie de la Banque, de la Finance et de l’Assurance from the Université de Caen.
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11:45 – 12:45 60 minutesChoose your theme:
Theme 1: Biodiversity Economics: “Von der ökologischen Krise zur finanziellen Verantwortung”
Moritz Stompfe is a Sustainability Manager in the ESG Management team at NORD/LB. He leads the areas of ESG Regulation as well as Reporting & Steering, and is passionately focused on the topic of biodiversity in credit institutions (particularly KPIs), which is also the subject of his current doctoral research. He has been with NORD/LB since 2012 and previously held various positions in the finance sector.
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Theme 2: Bank Treasuries: “Der ESG-Ansatz in LCR-Portfolios – alles grau statt grün?“
For the past two years, Christoph Anhamm has been looking after financial institutions based in Germany and Austria in NORD/LB’s DCM Team, focusing mainly on general consulting and executing capital market transactions. His other speciality is ESG-related topics and issues, with NORD/LB having successfully established itself as social bonds structurer in recent years. Before working for NORD/LB Christoph was also a DCM manager at ABN AMRO and RBS.
Maurice Lautner has been working in the Markets division of NORD/LB since the end of 2021. As an Originator in Debt Capital Markets (DCM), he is responsible for covering financial institutions in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. His coverage also includes advising issuers on ESG-related topics. After completing his training as a bank clerk in the cooperative banking sector, he pursued a degree in Business Administration at the University of Bremen, graduating with a Master of Science with a focus on Finance & Accounting.
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Theme 3: „FinanzServiceAgentur Hamburg – Neue Wege der Finanzierung im öffentlichen Sektor“
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Theme 4: „Französische Social Bonds im Geiste von „Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité“
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Prof Dr Carlo Masala is one of the leading experts on international politics and security. He is a Professor of International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich and an analyst specializing in global security policy, transatlantic relations, NATO issues, and geopolitical conflicts.
Since July 2009, Martin Hartmann has been Head of Markets, the global capital markets division of Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover. Markets focuses on trading fixed-income securities for German and international institutional investors and also includes the bank’s (FI) DCM segment. In addition, the division manages trading in financial instruments (interest rates and foreign exchange) with the customers of the wholesale franchise. Raising NORD/LB funding is also part of the division’s responsibilities.
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