Season 4, Episode 5
8 July 2026 - 33 min.
EU Finance Podcast host Aidas Palubinskas chats with Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) – the EU's principal investment arm and one of the world's largest multilateral lenders. With a career spanning the European Commission, the Spanish government, and the IMF's top financial committee, she brings a rare inside-out view of how EU finance actually works.
The conversation covers what the savings and investments union means for ordinary savers, how the EIB crowds in private capital and whether retail investors can ever really be part of that story, why European companies struggle to scale at home, and what the bank's digital bond issuances tell us about where capital market infrastructure is heading. The episode also touches on the EIB's landmark role in sustainable finance and its recent shift into defence investment.
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