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Green bonds capture investors’ imaginations

Green bonds ensure that an investment addresses climate change, the degradation of environmental systems, or biodiversity loss

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Quasi-equity, hybrids and modern art

Quasi-equity and hybrids raise financing for different kinds of companies without diluting their equity holders

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Smart city finance for better planning

How does a city get smart? Don’t throw technology at a problem unless you have an integrated plan.

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The digital economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

A Dictionary of Finance finds that banks are faced with big challenges assessing the “intangible” assets of companies in the digital economy

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Impact Investing: Do good and make money

An investment approach that aims turning a benefit to society into profit

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Capital adequacy and leverage ratios for dummies

Show off your skills in Financese by learning to use terms like Basel committee, CAR and leverage ratio in a sentence!

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Risk, Monopoly, and a game about banking

On this week’s episode of ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast, we learn how a bank operates and the risks it has to hedge against — by playing a game.

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Engineers without hard hats

Financial engineers don’t wear hard hats, even though some of the stuff they figure out is so complicated it might at first feel like a punch in the head. Don’t worry. A…

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Honey, they shrunk the loan size!

If you thought microfinance was for people in developing countries only, if you thought microcredit was cheap, or if you thought men are better with money than women —…

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‘Yank the bank’ and other legal ploys

A couple of weeks ago, we got four EIB lawyers together to explain some legal terms used in financing contracts on ‘A Dictionary of Finance’ podcast. Now they’re back…