Raising this type of question is of growing importance. The last few years have seen a growing public interest in the role business plays in society, and that will only grow in the future. The fact that ESG is reshaping the European Private markets landscape, with all of the industry’s …
There is no one single definition for sustainability risks but most experts agree on two facts: sustainability risks aren’t simple to address and the scarcity and reliability of data to assess them are a common issue. According to the SFDR (sustainable finance disclosure regulation), “Sustainability risk means an environmental, social or governance event …
Launching any kind of community-based structures, for instance a thematic community, is a major investment for any organisation. What are the benefits? At PwC Luxembourg, we are proud to host a vibrant UX Community. This is what this article is precisely about: telling you the story of why we did …
Lately we’ve been hearing and reading the sentence “change is the only constant” a lot! As we know, this saying is bigger than just the context of the pandemic. It’s also tied to speedy technological developments and modern life itself and brings with it the need for trust—among us, in …
Christmas, without any doubts, has a different meaning to all of us. The jolly season is the best time of the year to some; others think that Christmas without presents—and present shopping stress—is inconceivable. But there is also this bunch of folks that praise the feelings of love and kindness …
With a resurgent drive to work from home, plethora of new tools being constantly introduced and the great resignation in full swing, employee experience (EX) is top on most if not all organisations’ agendas once more, and it will remain a priority in 2022 and likely beyond. Organisations face fresh …
In the past few years, most banks have come to understand that if data is the new oil for companies, then it just might be the new gold for them. Following this, most banks also realise that it will take Artificial Intelligence (AI) to unlock that data gold. Sounds pretty …
When Wim Piot reached out to us proposing to publish a blog entry on Your Tomorrow, our programme for a digitally enabled workforce, we wrote in the content calendar, right next to the title “to be consulted” (we didn’t exactly know what was at stake). Talking about our business experiences …
We all know the whistleblower Edward Snowden – there’s even a movie about him! Or this other thriller with Keira Knightley, what was it called? Oh right, “Official secrets”. And recently there was this lady, Frances Haugen. We certainly do see a lot of whistleblowers in the news and their …
In this article, we dive into the EU Taxonomy for sustainable finance based on the 2021 report by the UNEP FI (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative), and the European Banking Federation (EBF). We are especially focusing on the Taxonomy in banking. Given that most companies are at different stages …
