Podcasts by A Dictionary of Finance
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 with experts from the European Investment Bank and make them explain words, phrases and concepts frequently used in economics and finance in a way that's understandable, whether you’re a student, a citizen, or a business owner. No jargon, no acronyms--but just about as much fun as a finance podcast can be.
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Bullets, ratchets and balloons from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Matt morphed into a sock-tycoon trying to get a loan from the European Investment Bank, with Allar acting as his not-so-knowledgeable lawyer. Explaining loan terms are Garbiela Barufi, EIB loan off...
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The priceless vanilla derivative from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you had the option of signing a contract today to buy a scoop of ice cream from me in one month, and to pay 90% of the price of a loaf of bread on that day for it, would you take it? If so, you ...
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The Story of the Euro from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
337 million people can’t be wrong, right? That’s how many people live in countries that have adopted the euro as their currency. But the history of the euro is rather short—so far. And as our guest...
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Inside the EU’s massive stimulus package from 2020-11-16T05:00
What do you do when an economy is struggling? If you’re a policymaker, a politician, or a central banker, you develop a stimulus package. That’s the term we examine in today’s episode. It’s the ins...
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The digital pixie dust clean-up from 2020-01-07T05:00
When we speak of the virtual world and storing things in ‘the cloud’, we seldom stop to realize that our digital climate impact is not virtual at all
Many people see ...
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Do you need arms and legs? from 2019-12-31T05:00
In schools and in the workplace disability training makes for better inclusion—and lets everyone draw on the strengths of people who overcame difficulties most of us never faced
Is dis...
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Is the EU a waste of money? from 2019-12-24T05:00
In this episode of Monster Under the Bed, we bust the idea that the EU is something to scare people with, and the myth that it costs us too much
In the last few years,...
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Forget careers. What are your competencies? from 2019-12-17T05:00
In this episode of Monster Under the Bed, we bust the ‘you are what you know’ education myth and discover that, in fact, you are the things you know how to do
In the g...
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A shadow industry of fraud from 2019-12-10T05:00
Here’s why you should be even more scared of cybercrime and the rising cost of cybercrime prevention
You probably think that if you have the latest software on your co...
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The countryside is for the birds from 2019-12-03T05:00
Forget the dystopian images of overcrowded, polluting cities. When urban life is well-planned and well-managed it’s better for the environment than country living.
We ...
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Should your hospital die? from 2019-11-26T05:30
‘Monster Under the Bed’ is a new season of podcasts by the European Investment Bank that tackles myths and prejudices we all have about anything from health care to cybercrime, and from urban pl...
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Introducing Monster Under the Bed from 2019-09-23T05:30
Listen to our new podcast - Monster Under the Bed!<...
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Introducing Future Europe from 2019-04-15T05:30
A big part of finance (and life) is about trying to figure out what will happen in the future. Will the market go up? Will interest rates drop? Take a look into the future with an exclusive sneak p...
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Private equity: Show us the love money from 2018-08-26T06:15
Why do some companies decide not to sell shares on public exchanges? And who buys private equity? A Dictionary of Finance finds out. We also learn what "love money" is.
Project finance: Can you drive a special purpose vehicle? from 2018-08-19T06:15
From hospitals to schools and toll roads, project finance can be a valuable way to handle risk. Here’s how project finance works.
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Anti-fraud: CSI for bankers from 2018-08-12T06:15
How do banks track possible fraud? Take a look inside bank fraud investigations and forensic accounting.
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Risk models: What's your distance to default? from 2018-08-05T06:15
You don’t need a Ph.D to run bank risk models. But it helps. So A Dictionary of Finance got two superterrific scientists to explain. It’s important because bank risk models are central to t...
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Macroeconomics makes economics simple from 2018-07-29T06:30
Find out how macroeconomics works with an overview of Adam Smith and the invisible hand, the Keynesian approach and the Chicago school. Macro (big) is the opposite of micro (sma...
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How Europe's investment fund hit its target from 2018-07-18T10:00
The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) hits a big target today. We mark the delivery of €315 billion in investment throug...
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M&A: When the financial gloves come off from 2018-07-15T06:15
If you want to know how mergers and acquisitions work, you’d best ask a lawyer. Because there are legions of them involved in any M&A deal (as mergers and acquisitions are known).
We h...
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Social finance: Warm, fuzzy banks from 2018-07-08T06:30:52
Let’s face it, people don’t like bankers. But that’s because they don’t know about social finance. On this week’s episode of ‘Listen
Save the world by recycling old economic textbooks from 2018-06-24T07:05
Circular economy is an economic system which contrasts with the linear economy. In the linear economy, companies extract natural resources, make something out of them, pass the product o...
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How fast can this bank go? from 2018-06-17T07:00
Imagine you are shopping for a new car—and not just based on the colour. You might consider the number of people it fits (especially if you have kids, despite initially warming to the idea of a ...
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Three lines of defence from 2018-06-10T07:00
In preparing this podcast which aims to answer the question what is banking compliance, we naturally engaged in some deep research on the subject. So, on Listen
Credit risk and the 80% haircut from 2018-05-27T07:10
Pay attention, credit risk management newbies: the expected loss equals the probability of default times the exposure at default times the haircut.
Now you may say: “What?!” But that’s onl...
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We need to talk about the euro from 2018-05-20T08:00
If your familiarity with Alexander Hamilton ends with the musical, you may want to go back to last week’s episode of ‘
Better Red and Dead from 2018-05-06T06:06:21
If there's one thing Mideast countries need, it's potable water. Thanks to a series of technical assistancestudies managed by the European Inv...
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Inside the IRR from 2018-04-29T08:00
IRR (Internal rate of return) indicates the comparative profitability of a possible investment by taking into account all outgoing and incoming cash flows from an investment o...
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The Preferred Return of the Financial Jedi from 2018-04-22T06:00
In this week’s episode of ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast by the European Investment Ba...
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You've been KYC'd from 2018-04-15T05:00
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 Client or (in the case of a bank) Know Your Count...
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Technically speaking, this is a very helpful episode from 2018-04-08T07:00
Learn about the social and business reasons for the “technical assistance” that helps companies and public institutions make their projects bankable.
Technical assistance helps make projec...
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Did you hear the one about the back office? from 2018-04-01T06:00
Completely by coincidence, the April 1 episode of ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast by the Listen
Treasure hunt from 2018-03-25T06:00
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 would dive regularly (and, mysteriously, not causing himse...
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More fun than a fund from 2018-03-18T05:00
A fund of funds gives investors a diverse portfolio and gives fund managers long-term capital to invest.
There are three phases to the lifetime of a fund of funds:
- Fu... Listen
It’s la banca, die Bank, la banque. But can finance actually have a gender? from 2018-03-08T05:30
It is pretty obvious that you can empower women by providing more financing for female entrepreneurs, and financing technology that makes banking services accessible to women in remote places. O...
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A sexy name to pay for pipes from 2018-03-04T07:30
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 Alfredo, but it might be a good long-term investment and it w...
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If you’re using structured finance and you know it, clap your hands from 2018-02-25T06:00
Did you know that, most likely, you are a beneficiary of structured finance? So before you go bashing opaque financing structures that you think caused the financial crisis a decade ago, please ...
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3 reasons why negative interest rates are positive from 2018-02-18T07:00
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 1987 movie “Wall Street”. So here goes:
Over th...
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Can you store wealth in virtual cats? from 2018-02-11T06:00
Wow, what a week this has been! Since Sunday, when our first episode on Bitcoin went live, the value of Bitcoin has co...
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Is Bitcoin a cryptocurrency or a commodity? from 2018-02-04T18:00
Bitcoin has been all over the financial press throughout the past year or so, thanks to huge volatility (an investment of USD 100 into Bitcoin would have been worth over USD Listen
Concessional finance and impact finance for development from 2018-01-28T18:30
In concessional finance, loans have more advantageous terms than usual, to support a development objective
Impact finance funds financially sustainable projects that have difficulty findin...
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In between the balance sheets from 2018-01-21T18:30
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 up your left and right, you could just as ...
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Businessmen in shorts getting naked from 2018-01-14T18:30
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: short selling.
Sandeep Dhawan came...
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Capital markets: Loud, aggressive guys versus virtual markets from 2018-01-07T18:30
Equity and bond markets collectively are known as the capital markets. The capital markets are mechanisms for raising capital, transforming savings productively into investments, so that compani...
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What can Tom Cruise tell us about Treasury operations? from 2017-12-17T18:00
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 podcast this week is financial collateral. This kind o...
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Economic Models: A bit like Lego... from 2017-12-03T18:30
We asked two experts, How do economists use economic models? The answer: to project current data into the future. Lots and lots of data.
Economic models help economists understand how thin...
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Why is investment important? And where? from 2017-11-26T18:30
Investment has been neglected in Europe since the financial crisis a decade ago, according to the European Investment Bank’s annual Investment Survey. But what effect does that really have? To a...
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Climate finance key to world’s future from 2017-11-19T18:00
Climate change is a vital issue for the future of the world, and climate finance is key to confronting it.
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Green bonds from 2017-11-12T18:30
Green bonds ensure that an investment addresses climate change, the degradation of environmental systems, or biodiversity loss.
When Aldo Romani developed the first Climate Awareness Bond ...
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Environmental finance from 2017-11-05T18:30
How to turn nature from a charity case into a sustainable asset class.
Environmental finance uses financial tools for the good of the environment, working to determine the right price for ...
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Quasi-equity, hybrids and mordern art from 2017-10-29T18:00
Quasi-equity and hybrids raise financing for different kinds of companies without diluting their equity holders. How does that work?
Quasi-equity is a contingent and participating loan, me...
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Smart city finance from 2017-10-22T17:00
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 to live in. At least, that’s what smart city finance ...
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Digital Economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution from 2017-10-15T18:00
The DIGITAL ECONOMY consists of all the transactions carried out over digital infrastructure or using digital technologies, including e-commerce. In fact, anything with an “e-” in front...
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Impact Investing: Do good and make money from 2017-10-08T17:00
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 gambling. But companies are figuring out ways to make good d...
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Capital adequacy and leverage ratios for dummies from 2017-10-02T08:04:10
Ahh, Switzerland – the land of cheese, chocolate, and… banking regulation? While you may not associate the alpine nation with strict rules on financial institutions, if you come across speakers ...
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...and the equity lived happily ever after from 2017-09-24T17:00
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 st...
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Risk, Monopoly, and a game about banking from 2017-09-17T17:00
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, head of regulation and best banking practice at the <...
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Venture capital: The good kind of disruption from 2017-09-10T18:00
A Dictionary of Finance discovers that venture capitalists aim to make their money through innovative companies that ‘disrupt’ the way things have been done before.
Venture capital is risk...
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Financial engineering: Engineers without hard hats from 2017-09-03T18:00
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 punch in the head. Don’t worry. Our expert explains how fi...
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Microfinance: Honey, they shrunk the loan size! from 2017-08-27T17:00
In this episode of ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast we invited Per-Erik Eriksson, head of inclusive finance at the
Finance law: ‘Yank the bank’ and other legal ploys from 2017-08-20T17:00
We invited European Investment Bank lawyers Maria Cerrato, Tom Nguyen, Kinga Soltész and Matthias Brzezinski together again to reveal some...
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PPPs: The Secret Life of Infrastructure from 2017-08-13T18:00
A PPP is a public-private partnership. It delivers long-term infrastructure through the private sector. The public sector pays, but only when the infrastructure is available to the public and ma...
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Risk management: How do you know when a swan is black? from 2017-08-06T18:00
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 generate profit. Risk is calculated by assessing the proba...
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Finance law: “Acting reasonably”, and other legal jargon from 2017-07-30T17:00
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 excited about each one.
In this week’s episode, we wen...
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SMEs: Are you a size S, or a size M? from 2017-07-23T17:00
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 well). So why is everyone talking about financing the smal...
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Can we interest you in inflation? from 2017-07-16T17:00
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? That calculation is related to a lot of other stuff. To...
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Start-ups: Unicorns really do exist from 2017-07-09T17:00
Allar and Matt uncover the imaginative names for fast-growing new companies, from unicorns to gazelles, dragons and…cockroaches.
A unicorn is a privately held company with a valuation of m...
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Equity and Debt: Can you share your bonds? from 2017-07-03T00:00
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 discover that Allar is really keen on free s...
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Banks: What 'Monopoly' fans don't know about them from 2017-06-09T14:33:20
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 where the announcer calls out “Mind the Gap,” or a game of M...
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