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 align global development goals with EU policies, particularly in areas like climate action, poverty reduction, and sustainable growth.
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The One About the Sanctions Helpdesk
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 “Compliance Corner” Podcast Series of the EU Sanctions Helpdesk.
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The One About the Savings and Investments Union featuring Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque
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 empower EU citizens and businesses to help the EU economy grow, increase our resilience, and build a better future, even as we see present market turmoil coming from across the pond.
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The One About EU Venture Capitalists
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 University of California at Berkeley, where she researched the factors that lead to startup success. She followed more than 1000 entrepreneurial teams over five years. Eva speaks a lot about the European tech sector and how innovation affects our lives. Eva is committed to more diversity in technology and entrepreneurship.
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The One About Climate Benchmarks
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.
The EU_Finance podcast is created by EU Commission’s Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Short episodes are released monthly on topics related to banks, capital markets, insurance, digital or sustainable finance, anti-money laundering, etc.