Have you been paying attention to ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast? Take our finance podcast quiz
Once you’ve taken our finance podcast quiz, maybe you’ll feel your financese can use a bit of freshening up. So, listen to the European Investment Bank’s podcast ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ with hosts Matt (@EIBMatt) and Allar (@AllarTankler).
Go to the podcast page on this website to pick the episode that interests you, and just play it in your browser. Or, look up ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ on iTunes (or your iPhone’s built-in ‘Podcasts’ app.) Or look us up on whichever podcast app you use on your phone. Or go to Spotify. Or YouTube. If you are using a platform where you can’t find us, tell us.
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Here’s an overview of the terms we’ve covered (this is also where you can find correct answers to the quiz questions):
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Title |
Terms |
Guests |
Link on iTunes |
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It’s la banca, die Bank, la banque. But can finance actually have a gender? |
Gender-sensitive lending, grievance mechanism, care economy |
Julia Chambers and Eleni Kyrou |
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Hydrobond |
Patricia Castellarnau and Thomas van Gilst |
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If you’re using structured finance and you know it, clap your hands |
Structured finance, securitization, credit enhancement, synthetic, asset-backed security, first loss piece |
Karen Cannenterre and Milena Messori |
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Negative interest rates, quantitative easing, real/nominal interest rate, liquidity, devaluation |
Marcello Graziuso |
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Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, |
Markus Willms |
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Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, |
Markus Willms |
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Concessional finance, impact finance, development banking, crowding in, blending, risk-sharing |
Heike Ruettgers, Nina Fenton, Claudio Cali |
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Balance sheet, assets, liabilities, cash/accruals accounting, accounts receivable/payable |
Marius Cara |
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Shorting, naked/covered shorts, long positions |
Sandeep Dhawan |
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Capital markets: Loud, aggressive guys versus virtual markets |
Equity markets, bond market, capital/money markets, open pit, virtual exchange, over the counter trading |
Sandeep Dhawan |
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Collateral, secured/unsecured loans, repo |
Peter Balaz |
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Economic models |
Natacha Valla and Georg Weiers |
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Investment, market gap, market failure |
Debora Revoltella, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher and Atanas Kolev |
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Climate finance, climate action, adaptation, mitigation |
Nancy Saich and Martin Berg |
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Green bonds, climate awareness bonds |
Nancy Saich and Aldo Romani |
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Environmental finance, blue economy, natural assets |
James Ranaivoson, Jane Feehan and Eva Mayerhofer |
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Quasi-equity, corporate hybrid bonds, venture capital vs venture debt |
Pilar Solano and Hristo Stoykov |
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Smart city, greenfield, brownfield, sustainable development |
Emily Smith, Manuel Duenas and Gerry Muscat |
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Digital economy, innovation, intangibles, 4th industrial revolution, |
Liisa Raasakka and Harald Gruber |
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Impact investing, the sharing economy |
Uli Grabenwarter |
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Capital adequacy ratio, Basel committee, risk-weighted assets, leverage ratio, Basel III |
Vincent Thunus |
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Equity story, credit story, multiples method, EBITDA |
Paulina Brzezicka and Alberto Casorati |
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Risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, interest rate risk, foreign exchange rate risk |
Vincent Thunus |
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Venture capital, risk capital, entrepreneurship, seed funding, mezzanine |
Uli Grabenwarter |
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Financial engineering, options, Black-Scholes Model, quantitative analysis |
Thomas Ribarits |
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Microfinance, microloans |
Hannah Siedek and Per-Erik Eriksson |
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“to the best of my knowledge after due inquiry”, data room, “yank the bank”, “drop dead clause”, “carve out”, “midnight clauses” , “insolvency waterfalls”, “insolvency pool”. |
Maria José Cerrato Sánchez, Tom Nguyen, Kinga Soltész, Matthias Brzezinski |
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Public private partnerships |
Stuart Broom |
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Risk appetite, black swans, exposure, credit risk, liquidity risk |
Giancarlo Sardelli and Luigi Armeli |
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“Snooze you lose”, “mutatis mutandis”, “ipsa loquitur”, “pari passu”, “in rem security”, “reservation of rights” and “acting reasonably”. |
Maria José Cerrato Sánchez, Tom Nguyen, Kinga Soltész, Matthias Brzezinski |
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SMEs, access to finance, collateral, angel investors, asymmetric information |
Helmut Kraemer-Eis and Pedro Eiras Antunes |
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Inflation, interest rates, Phillips Curve, employment rate, economic growth |
Natacha Valla and Markus Berndt |
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Dragons, unicorns, gazelles, cockroaches |
Helmut Kraemer-Eis |
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Equity, debt, shares, bonds, dematerializing, cash flow |
Kristin Lang and Angus MacRae |
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Banks, multilateral banks, investment banks, wholesale banks, retail banks, consumer banks |
Natacha Valla and Markus Berndt |
