EU Finance - The Future of Finance

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank — the EU's principal investment arm and one of the world's largest multilateral lenders. With a career spanning the European Commission, the Spanish government, and the IMF's top financial committee, she brings a rare inside-out view of how EU finance actually works. The conver...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Tilman Lueder, the Head of Unit for Pensions and Insurance at the EU Commission about a proposed package to make supplementary pensions better and more accessible across the EU — revamping the rules for occupational pension funds, relaunching the Pan-European Personal Pension Product, and recommending that member states get serious about auto-en...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with EU Sanctions Envoy David O'Sullivan about how sanctions are working after 4 years of Russia's full scale illegal and barbarous unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. During the past 4 years, Russia has been unable to achieve its illegal war objectives, but has perpetrated countless barbarities, war crimes, and murders against Ukraine and her pe...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with President Enrico Letta — former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the Jacques Delors Institute — about the Savings and Investments Union and what it means for European citizens and businesses. They cover fragmented financial markets, ten trillion euros in household savings doing too little, the case for stronger EU-level supervision, and...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with OECD Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs Carmine Di Noia. They talk about financial literacy in the EU and beyond, competence frameworks, financial literacy challenges, the OECD’s plans, as well as what Professor di Noia thinks about the EU Commission’s financial literacy strategy.

Chantal Hughes chats with Niklas Wykman, Swedish Minister for Financial Markets, about the EU Commission's proposal on Savings and investment accounts (SIAs). They are designed to provide you with an easy and user-friendly way to grow your wealth and achieve your personal financial goals. SIAs already exist in some EU countries. The Commission is now recommending that all EU countries introduc...

In a joint episode, EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas and the European Central Bank's Podcast host Stefania Secola chat with ECB executive board member Piero Cippolone about the digital Euro. What IS it? Don't we already have it? How is it going to work? They'll also address disinformation about the digital euro: Is this a tool for Big Brother? Is Government going to control ho...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas heads over to Luxembourg to chat with the European Stability Mechanism’s Secretary General Nicola Giammarioli, responsible for Corporate Governance and Internal Policies, Policy Strategy and Institutional Relations and Communications. If you’ve ever wondered what the ESM is all about, this episode is for you!

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Anshula Kant about the World Bank. Anshula Kant is Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer. In this role, she is responsible for oversight of financial management, reporting, and risk management of the World Bank Group and the mobilization of IDA and other financial resources. The EU collaborates with the World Bank to ali...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with the EU Sanctions Helpdesk's Frederik van Essen, Legal and Compliance Key Expert, and Dimitrios Chaidas, Key Expert on Communications, who will discuss the Helpdesk and the added value it brings to European SMEs. This is a special episode as it is the new episode of our “EU Finance” Podcast Series but also the first episode of the new “Compli...

EU Finance podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque, responsible for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union. The Savings and Investments Union (SIU) is at the forefront of Europe's financial strategy, aiming to create a more robust and inclusive economic environment. Commissioner Albuquerque shares how this initiative is designed to empowe...

EU Finance podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Eva de Mol, the founder of the first and largest investment fund in technology startups in the Netherlands founded by women: CapitalT. They chat about the EU being more risk averse than the USA, about freeing up European capital to do more, and about the future of EU capital markets. Eva earned her PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the U...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Antoine Picot, an expert on securities markets and benchmarks about climate benchmarks, and how they work, as well as what Paris Aligned and Climate Transition Benchmarks are useful for.

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Maria Raffaella Assetta, the head of international affairs in DG FISMA. Raffaella and her team are responsible for the EU working with our international partners (USA, UK, G20, etc.) to develop consistent policies on the regulation of financial markets and capital movements. 

The Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) is here! Brand-spanking new! EU Finance podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Olivier Salles, the executive director of AMLA and Vincent Schön from AMLA’s communications team about what’s new and how to get a job at AMLA.

The European Green Bond Standard is here! It’s grown and flowered into the European Green Bond Standard Regulation which applies from 21 December of 2024. That’s why EU Finance podcast host Aidas Palubinskas revisits this subject with Christine Mai, an EU expert on sustainable finance and the European Green Bond Standard Regulation.

EU Finance podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with outgoing EU Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability, and Capital Markets Union Mairead McGuinness about what she’s gotten done over the last 4 years. It’s the first ever EU Finance VODcast, so head over to our youtube channel @EUFinance and take a look!

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Mr. Brice De Schietere, the European External Action Service’s (EEAS) Head of sanctions division. The External Action Service is like the EU’s foreign ministry. As friends of the podcast already know, it’s DG FISMA (The Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) that prepares joint proposals for Re...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Chairperson of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) - Petra Hielkema. She was appointed as chair back in September 2021, so she’s a bit more than halfway through this term. EIOPA is at the heart of insurance and occupational pensions supervision in the EU.

EU Finance podcast host Aidas Palubinskas talks with the Chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA) - Jose Manuel Campa. He was first appointed to the Chair of the EBA in March 2019 and was recently RE-appointed for a second term. He represents the Authority and by chairing the meetings of the Board of Supervisors and of the Management Board steers the strategic direction of the Authority...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas and Almoro Rubin de Cervin, head of the EU’s Banking regulation and supervision unit, examine where we are with banking reform, and if is it really the final step in this reform of banking rules.

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas talks with Olena Loboiko, an expert policy officer in the EU Commission’s Anti Money Laundering unit. They discuss the creation of a new EU authority to fight money laundering - AMLA. It is part of the Commission’s commitment to protect EU citizens and the EU's financial system from money laundering and terrorist financing. Anti-Money Laundering: https...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas talks with Elodie Feller of the Platform on Sustainable Finance and EU Commission expert Sophie Rathmes about an important facet of sustainable finance – transition finance. The aim behind transition finance is to support companies that are at different starting points to become more sustainable in the future and to create the right conditions so capital f...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas and Dominique Laboureix - the chair of the Single Resolution Board (the SRB) talk about the SRB, what it does, and WHY it does. This is a companion episode to S02E02 on the subject of banking union, bank resolution and related matters. EU Finance Newsletter: https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/financial...

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas and Andrea Beltramello, the Head of the Commission’s resolution and deposit insurance unit, talk about reforming the EU’s banking crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) framework within the EU’s Banking Union. This is the first of a two part series. Next time, we’ll be talking with Dominique Laboureix - the chair of the Single Resolution Board (the...