Speakers

Markus Krause has worked in the Capital Market division of the State of Saxony-Anhalt since 2012 and has been Head of Treasury since 2022.

In this role, he is responsible for the State's capital market activities and its debt portfolio of EUR 23 billion, which includes a EUR 3 billion commercial paper programme and an EUR 8 billion debt issuance programme as well as the regular issue of benchmark bonds.

In 2023, the State published a framework for social bonds and has already issued one billion euros in social bonds since then. In 2024, the State issued a digital commercial paper as part of the Eurosystem Exploratory Work to test new technologies for processing DLT-based financial market transactions in central bank money