Maria, who lives in Luxembourg, was dreaming about going to Porto in May 2020, taking advantage of the abundant number of bank holidays during this month. She even booked her plane tickets and accomodation quite in advance, cleverly anticipating that prices would go high during this period. In March, she …
There is no shame in confessing that you have wished your voice assistance could answer some of the pressing questions that trouble we humans. When will I find love? When will I die? Or, maybe, Will I get the job? If you have a voice assistant, you have insulted it …
How much do we dislike starting another blog with the word COVID in a prominent position? We don’t want our readers’ eyes to glaze over, or for the headline to mistakenly suggest negativity. Because we find this week’s topic – appreciating what is new and innovative in Luxembourg’s banking sector …
It’s that time of year again when your friendly, approachable PwC Luxembourg blog team starts going on summer vacation (not all at once of course, that would be a bit inconsiderate, so we’ll still be producing articles). But before we do, we’d like to propose to you a summer reading …
The “Sleeping Giant” has awakened, and its emergence represents an era-defining shift in the global economic landscape. China’s rise in the last two decades has been truly meteoric, catalysing an economic expansion of unprecedented proportions. An average economic growth rate of 9.1% between its accession to the World Trade Organisation …
Online investing has made ordinary people discover financial markets. Together with lockdowns and limited mobility triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, came hours and hours spent on social media and the internet, and all that made us even more aware of new ways of investing, among other things and realities. …
Does every company understand what falls under the treasury function? Challenging events in the past made the value of the treasury function crystal clear to the business as a whole. However, we still see some companies without a cash culture in place, lacking key metrics and global visibility and/or still …
In the busy market of buzzwords, technology convergence doesn’t have a place, at least not yet. Maybe, what may come out of the conjunction of these two words isn’t yet that apparent to the human mind. What our reality makes obvious is that technology, notably the one based on bits, …
Although product and service innovation is, more often than not, driven by unhappy customers whose demands for seamless, delightful and outcome-driven experiences are not being met, it’s up to smart, visionary businesses to seize the opportunity and, nimbly, cover those needs. In the pandemic (and post-pandemic) world the need for …
Is your approach to compliance fit for the present and for what the future holds? There is a very common human response when someone hears the word “compliance”, as if it was embedded in our genes: most people go, “oh compliance”, and they frown or twist their mouths. Let’s be …
