A Former BlackRock Portfolio Manager Joins Slovakia’s Central Bank

The National Bank of Slovakia has hired former BlackRock Inc. portfolio manager Jozef Prokes as its head of investments and open market operations.

Prokes returned to the central bank after more than a decade in the private sector, mostly at BlackRock as a co-manager on a range of European corporate bond funds in London and also as a trader at Credit Agricole CIB, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before that he was a senior portfolio manager at the policy-making body.