Alisa Rusanoff

Head of Credit - Crescendo ACS

Alisa Rusanoff is a seasoned founder and executive in fintech, alternative investments, trade finance, consumer finance and private debt. Alisa is a confident speaker on #embeddedfinance, #tradefinance, #macro, #fintech, #privatecredit, #smbmarket, #alternativeinvesting, and has featured in panels at Bloomberg (Bloomberg Invest, Bloomberg Quant), NYU, the New School Venture Lab, Antler VC, CeFPro Advanced Model Risk, Risk Americas, GC4Women Certificate Program, Global Trade Review (“GTR”), QuantMinds International by Informa Connect, ITFA, Money 2.0 Conference, etc. Alisa is a 40Under40 Award Winner in Underwriting by Secured Finance Network (2020); Top 25 women in M&A by Opus Connect (2020);

Leadership Award in Finance Winner by Money 2.0 Conference (2022);

‘Women in Fintech Powerlist 2022’ by the Innovate Finance; Top Outstanding Women in Trade, Treasure & Payments 2024 by Trade Finance Global (TFG);

Contributing author to the textbook ‘Cases in Financial Management: Financial Analysis for Corporate Financial Management’. Member of the Economic Club of New York.

All Sessions by Alisa Rusanoff

09:00 - 09:45

MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT – PANEL DISCUSSION

Reviewing macroeconomic environment changes and impacts to credit

  • Managing conflicting macroeconomic indicators
  • Managing anticipation of increased defaults
  • Understanding the impact from the growth of private credit providers
  • Effectiveness of historical indicators in predicting a recession
  • Managing high inflation and interest rates
  • Interest rate environment and corporate credit defaults
  • Commercial real estate loans in the post COVID world
  • Changes in debt levels to consumer with higher rates