This is the ninth in a series of articles focused on how Responsible AI is enhancing risk functions to deliver value and AI innovation. AI is reshaping how business gets done. Including yours. From finance and internal audit to IT and R&D, you’re already using AI to do more, with new levels of speed and insight. And you’re not alone. Your customers, your service providers, the teams who evaluate your controls and compliance — they’re all evolving, too. Which raises the question: What does...

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Portugal’s credibility, combined with a solid regulatory framework, makes its capital market an increasingly attractive destination for global investors, says Luís Laginha de Sousa, Chairman of the CMVM – Portuguese Securities Market Commission. The regulator has been stepping up efforts to raise awareness of how the market works and to highlight its potential among companies, investors, and other economic stakeholders. What makes the national capital market attractive to international investors? Portugal’s credibility is clearly recognised by international investors who regularly participate...

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On 14 October 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its annual Public Statement on the European Common Enforcement Priorities (ECEP) for the 2025 annual reports of issuers admitted to trading on the European Economic Area (EEA) regulated markets. The ECEP was accompanied by a report on the results of a fact-finding exercise on the 2024 corporate sustainability reporting practices under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The ECEP package comes at a time of turmoil in the sustainability...

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Competitiveness week: Ministers meet, businesses commit, and simplification stalls It was a competitiveness-centred week: responsible ministers met on Monday, 28 September, leading European companies signalled they are ready to invest more in Europe, and the European Parliament failed to agree on the first of six simplifications “omnibus” packages proposed by the European Commission. During the Council meeting On Monday (29 September), ministers discussed the simplification packages with industry commissioner Stéphane Séjourné. Governments of the 27 member states agreed that administrative burdens needed to...

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