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. H...
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Episodes (149)
Invested by Europe: How Climate Action Boosts Europe’s Competitiveness
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Invested by Europe: Why Space is the Backbone of Europe’s Economy
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Invested by Europe: What Actually Makes Affordable Housing Possible?
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Invested by Europe: Why Social Investment Drives Europe’s Economic Success
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Invested by Europe: Why Security and Defence is a Race Against Time for Europe
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Invested by Europe: Why Energy Efficiency Is Europe’s Fastest Climate Solution
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A Dictionary of Finance presents Invested by Europe
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Inside the EU’s massive stimulus package
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The digital pixie dust clean-up
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Do you need arms and legs?
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Is the EU a waste of money?
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Forget careers. What are your competencies?
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A shadow industry of fraud
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The countryside is for the birds
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Should your hospital die?
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Introducing Monster Under the Bed
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Introducing Future Europe
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Private equity: Show us the love money
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Project finance: Can you drive a special purpose vehicle?
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Anti-fraud: CSI for bankers
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Risk models: What's your distance to default?
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Macroeconomics makes economics simple
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How Europe's investment fund hit its target
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M&A: When the financial gloves come off
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Social finance: Warm, fuzzy banks
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Bullets, ratchets and balloons
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Save the world by recycling old economic textbooks
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How fast can this bank go?
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Three lines of defence
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The priceless vanilla derivative
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Credit risk and the 80% haircut
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We need to talk about the euro
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The Story of the Euro
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Better Red and Dead
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Inside the IRR
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The Preferred Return of the Financial Jedi
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You've been KYC'd
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Technically speaking, this is a very helpful episode
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Did you hear the one about the back office?
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Treasure hunt
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More fun than a fund
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It’s la banca, die Bank, la banque. But can finance actually have a gender?
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A sexy name to pay for pipes
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If you’re using structured finance and you know it, clap your hands
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3 reasons why negative interest rates are positive
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Can you store wealth in virtual cats?
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Is Bitcoin a cryptocurrency or a commodity?
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Concessional finance and impact finance for development
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