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🌿Given the current levels of resource use, it is estimated that we are using Earth’s resources 1.8 times faster than our planet’s biocapacity can regenerate. In other words, in 1 year we use 1.8 earths! The use of materials has sharply risen in the last 50 years. Read the latest article by our Sustainability Senior Consultant Anastasia Ellina ♻️🌍

This article delves into the DLT Pilot Regime, its objectives, and its significance in the European financial services sector. For more information on how the DLT Pilot Regime can benefit your business, contact Grant Thornton Cyprus, a leading provider of professional services.

Having a Privacy Operational Compliance Framework in place can help organisations protect personal data, avoid costly penalties for non-compliance, and demonstrate commitment to privacy to their customers and other stakeholders.

In this article we explore the premise of web3 and the potential of technology to put the power back in the hands of individuals rather than corporations.

The EBA will integrate ESG risks considerations into its framework over the next three years to support the EU's transition to a more sustainable economy. Read more

For many years, since the industrial revolution and the birth of the notion of the firm in the western world, the purpose of the new vehicle was to produce profit for the shareholder/s. Industrial firms are relatively recent in history. They arose only after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, in the second half of the 18th century in England and, a bit later, in the European Continent and in America.

More and more ML/TF failures are being revealed around the world, the environment is becoming increasingly fragile and competition is ever increasing, with countries, regulators and organisational leaders finding it difficult to keep up. Compliance departments become busier by the minute facing emerging risks, new regulatory requirements, and organisational leaders as well as clients, viewing them as a ‘snoops’ and as an ever-increasing cost.

The report highlights the main updates made to integrate the climate models in order to reflect the most recent climate data and economic outlook on macroeconomic variables, used as part of the models, and consequently, on both physical and transition risks.

Summarising the NGFS directory for bridging climate related data gaps, overcoming limitations, and proposed policy recommendations to support the needs of the financial sector.

By the end of 2023, the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) will be in force. The NFRD requires large public interest companies and listed companies to prepare and publish information related to their sustainability performance (society, environment, governance (ESG)) on an annual basis.

Understanding NGFS released data, exploration of scenarios and their impact, and leveraging on globally accepted solutions for the quantification of climate and environmental risks.

On July 8th, 2022, the European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of the Biennial Thematic Stress Test 2022 related to climate change. The exercise focused on climate-related risks, both transitional and physical.

We explore the outlook for businesses in the year ahead and look at how targeted digital investment could offset the risks.

This paper will provide an overview of the current and future uses of Machine Learning in the world of Internal Rating Based (IRB) Models which allow banks to model their own inputs for calculating Risk Weighted Assets.

EBA published, on the 21st of June 2022, draft principles in assessing representativeness of COVID-19-impacted data in re-calibration of IRB models. The Supervisory handbook that will be published later in 2022 will include these principles, aiming at ensuring a harmonised approach. COVID events and especially the use of moratoria and other public measures may have led to changes in default rates.

The EBA Annual Report was published on the 15th of June 2022, highlighting the main achievements made in 2021, providing an overview of the key priorities for the coming year.