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 sh…

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 h…

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.By Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA)

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 M…

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 Boa…

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.By Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA)

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 ter…

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 futu…

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-commis…

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 Laboure…

Special Edition - this episode being released outside the usual combination of podcast and monthly EU Finance Newsletter. It’s also special, because there’s been a massive uptick in Russian disinformation regarding sanctions, and the truth is needed to combat that as soon as possible.The latest false Russian narrative is that sanctions are not work…

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas talks with Thomas Dodd, the EU Commission’s expert on corporate reporting about how someone who wants to invest sustainably can know if the investment is really green? Well, surprise, surprise!, the EU has once again stepped up to help us out. At the beginning of this year, the Corporate Sustainability Repo…

In September 2020, the European Commission adopted the digital finance strategy to foster a more competitive and innovative European financial sector. The digital finance platform is part of this effort to support innovation in finance and build a true single market for digital financial services.EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with…

Back in December of 2022, the EU decided to create a new role of International Special Envoy for the Implementation of EU Sanctions to ensure continuous, high-level discussions with third countries to avoid the evasion or even the circumvention of the unprecedented sanctions that have been imposed on Russia since the start of its brutal and illegal…

Governments borrow. The EU borrows. It borrows to get stuff done. EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas talks with Niall Bohan, the EU Commission’s Director for Asset, debt and financial Risk management in the Budget department. They walk through how the EU issues debt, how our bonds, EU bonds, work, why they work and why they’re a big, good de…

EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Axel Fougner – the EU Commission’s foremost authority on the European Green Bond Standard. Axel gives Aidas an explanation about EUGBS, how it’s going to work, why it’s going to work, and who is going to make it work. If you’re green behind the ears about bonds that might help save the planet, th…

Your intrepid EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas has a quick-fire chat with Jenny Robertson, the head of the EU's Financial Markets Infrastructure unit. They're talking about something that deals with mind-boggling amounts of money. Tens of trillions of Euro. Yes, TENS of TRILLIONS of Euro. They're going to clear the air. They're going to cl…

Brussels woke up to a clean blanket of snow this morning. It’s like there’s a beautiful single space, ready and waiting for new opportunities. Sounds like a metaphor for the EU, no? When your host Aidas Palubinskas came to work for DG FISMA, what he likes to call the EU’s Ministry of Finance - work on the Capital Markets Union – the CMU - was just …

Instant coffee, instant oatmeal, instant mashed potatoes, instant gratification. We want it all, and we want it now. So, we’re going to talk about instant payments. On 26 October 2022, the European Commission put forward a legislative proposal on establishing instant payments. Wait, what? Don’t we already have that? Your host, Aidas Palubinskas, wh…

In response to the extremely volatile prices caused by Russia’s weaponisation of energy, on 18 October 2022, the EU Commission proposed a new emergency regulation to address high gas prices in the EU and ensure security of supply this winter. Aidas Palubinskas chats with the EU Commission’s Director General for Finance Sean Berrigan about the finan…

Back in 2021, the European Commission presented an ambitious package of legislative proposals to strengthen the EU rules on anti-money laundering and countering terrorism financing (AML/CFT). This included the proposal for the creation of a new EU authority to fight money laundering. Aidas Palubinskas talks with DG FISMA’s Deputy Director General A…

Letizia Lupini talks to Alain Deckers – head of the asset management unit – about what the EU is doing to promote sustainable finance and how investors can make sure they invest green.By Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA)

Aidas Palubinskas talks to Jan Ceyssens about all things digital – including cryptocurrencies, cyber risks, the digital euro, privacy, and consent.By Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA)

How do sanctions work? Do they work? How citizens and business can help them work?By Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA)

Short episodes are released at the same time as the monthly EU Commission Finance Newsletter on topics related to banks, capital markets, insurance, digital or sustainable finance, anti-money laundering, sanctions, etc.The host of the podcast is not an expert, so tries to get the topics explained as simply as possible.The views expressed are those …