EU Finance - The Future of Finance

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://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/eu-context-anti-money-laundering-and-countering-financing-terrorism_en
AMLA: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/amla_en
EU Finance Podcast on Anti Money Laundering: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/eu-finance-podcast-future-finance/eu-finance-podcast-one-about-anti-money-laundering_en
EU Finance Newshub: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/finance-news-hub_en

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 flows can finance a more sustainable economy.
 
EU Finance Newshub: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/finance-news-hub_en
Transition Finance: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/publications/sustainable-finance-package-2023_en#transition
Platform on Sustainable Finance: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/sustainable-finance/overview-sustainable-finance/platform-sustainable-finance_en
Compendium on market practices
EU Finance Podcast episode on sustainability reporting: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/eu-finance-podcast-future-finance/eu-finance-podcast-one-about-sustainability-reporting_en

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-stability-financial-services-and-capital-markets-union/finance-newsletter_en
Single Resolution Mechanism and the SRB: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/banking/banking-union/single-resolution-mechanism_en#what-the-eu-is-doing-and-why
 

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 SRB) - for a deeper dive into the SRB, what it does, and WHY it does.
 
EU Finance Newsletter: https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/financial-stability-financial-services-and-capital-markets-union/finance-newsletter_en
Reform of bank crisis management and deposit insurance framework: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/publications/reform-bank-crisis-management-and-deposit-insurance-framework_en

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 working. Article after article gets pushed to world media. Russian proxies and populist politicians parrot the same line.  Why? Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas talks with EU Sanctions Envoy David O’Sullivan to shed some light on the subject. Spoiler Alert! It’s because sanctions ARE indeed working.
 
EU Finance Newsletter: https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/financial-stability-financial-services-and-capital-markets-union/finance-newsletter_en
EUvsDisinfo: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

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 Reporting Directive (CSRD) entered into force. This new directive modernises and strengthens the rules concerning the social and environmental information that companies have to report. A broader set of large companies, as well as listed SMEs, will now be required to report on sustainability. 
 
Here’s a link for a deeper dive into sustainability reporting: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/capital-markets-union-and-financial-markets/company-reporting-and-auditing/company-reporting/corporate-sustainability-reporting_en
 
You’ll find out EU Finance Newsletter here: https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/departments-and-executive-agencies/financial-stability-financial-services-and-capital-markets-union/finance-newsletter_en

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 the EU Commission’s foremost expert on the digital finance platform, Alice Guedel of DG FISMA, to help him understand the latest innovation on the platform – the Data Hub.

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 war against Ukraine and the West. EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with David O'Sullivan, a former Secretary-General of the Commission and senior EU diplomat, the EU Sanctions Envoy.

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 deal. And they have some laughs along the way.

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, this episode is for you. If you’re ready to go green in your finances, give this one a listen.