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Allar and Matt work for the EU bank. But they’re not bankers. So they often find themselves wondering just what their super-smart banker colleagues are talking about. Each week they sit down...
In this week's episode of ' A Dictionary of Finance ' podcast by the European Investment Bank we talk about the intersection of the private...
You—yes you—have been the subject of a KYC examination. No, not by your doctor. By your bank. KYC stands for Know Your Customer, Know Your C...
Learn about the social and business reasons for the "technical assistance" that helps companies and public institutions make their projects...
Completely by coincidence, the April 1 episode of ' A Dictionary of Finance ' podcast by the European Investment Bank starts with a comedy s...
If you were anything like us, you imagined the treasury being something like Uncle Scrooge's pool of coins in Duck Tales, into which he woul...
A fund of funds gives investors a diverse portfolio and gives fund managers long-term capital to invest. There are three phases to the lifet...
It is pretty obvious that you can empower women by providing more financing for female entrepreneurs, and financing technology that makes ba...
If you like Italian mineral water, maybe you'd also enjoy an Italian hydrobond . It won't rehydrate you or go nicely with a fettucine Alfred...
Did you know that, most likely, you are a beneficiary of structured finance? So before you go bashing opaque financing structures that you t...
This would not be a complete Dictionary of Finance if we did not reference at least once Gordon Gekko's famous line "Greed is good" from the...
Wow, what a week this has been! Since Sunday, when our first episode on Bitcoin went live, the value of Bitcoin has come down from around US...
Bitcoin has been all over the financial press throughout the past year or so, thanks to huge volatility (an investment of USD 100 into Bitco...
In concessional finance, loans have more advantageous terms than usual, to support a development objective Impact finance funds financially...
The corporate balance sheet explained—from the reason companies make one, down to the obscure terms that appear on it. If you've ever mixed...
If you've wondered what a naked short sale is, here is the long and short of a practice that's often looked at askance by financial traders:...
Equity and bond markets collectively are known as the capital markets. The capital markets are mechanisms for raising capital, transforming...
Collateral is more than just a fairly good Tom Cruise movie. It's also a Jamie Foxx movie… Actually, what we're really talking about on our...
We asked two experts, How do economists use economic models? The answer: to project current data into the future. Lots and lots of data. Eco...
Investment has been neglected in Europe since the financial crisis a decade ago, according to the European Investment Bank's annual Investme...
Climate change is a vital issue for the future of the world, and climate finance is key to confronting it. You get the lowdown on this supre...
Green bonds ensure that an investment addresses climate change, the degradation of environmental systems, or biodiversity loss. When Aldo Ro...
How to turn nature from a charity case into a sustainable asset class. Environmental finance uses financial tools for the good of the enviro...
Quasi-equity and hybrids raise financing for different kinds of companies without diluting their equity holders. How does that work? Quasi-e...
Smart city finance is based on an integrated smart city plan, in which a range of technological innovations are used to create a better city...
The DIGITAL ECONOMY consists of all the transactions carried out over digital infrastructure or using digital technologies, including e-comm...
If you wanted your money to help society, you used to be limited to giving it to charity or refusing to invest in "sin" businesses, like gam...
Ahh, Switzerland – the land of cheese, chocolate, and… banking regulation? While you may not associate the alpine nation with strict rules o...
On this week's episode of 'A Dictionary of Finance' , Matt and Allar learn about credit stories and equity stories. As it turns out, these s...
Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. And do not play Monopoly, if you want to learn about finance. Instead, play a game that Vincent Thunus,...
A Dictionary of Finance discovers that venture capitalists aim to make their money through innovative companies that 'disrupt' the way thing...
Financial engineers don't wear hard hats, even though some of the stuff they figure out is so complicated it might at first feel like a punc...
In this episode of ' A Dictionary of Finance' podcast we invited Per-Erik Eriksson, head of inclusive finance at the European Investment Fun...
We invited European Investment Bank lawyers Maria Cerrato, Tom Nguyen, Kinga Soltész and Matthias Brzezinski together again to reveal some o...
A PPP is a public-private partnership. It delivers long-term infrastructure through the private sector. The public sector pays, but only whe...
An event that carries risk can generate harm or a loss. A certain level of risk has to be accepted by, for example, a bank, in order to gene...
First: a shout-out to our 7 listeners in Mongolia! Our statistics show we really do have listeners all over the world, and we're very excite...
We've all learned about economies of scale in school (and if you were absent that day, this podcast will provide a quick recap on this, as w...
Interest rates—you've certainly paid them. But why did you pay the particular interest rate you had to pay? Who figures that out, and how? T...
Allar and Matt uncover the imaginative names for fast-growing new companies, from unicorns to gazelles, dragons and…cockroaches. A unicorn i...
Allar and Matt examine the two main ways companies raise money: equity and debt. You'll hear an awful lot about a fictional hairdresser and...
What do you think of when you hear the word "Bank?" A basketball bank shot by Michael Jordan? The Bank station on the London Underground whe...