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BLOG by Edina Csányi, European Investment Bank For much of my professional life, I worked with things you can see: railways, energy systems, water infrastructure (and savin the Danube sturgeon). Financial structures. Large investments that appear on maps, in spreadsheets and eventually — if all goes well — in the real world. There is something wonderfully reassuring about physical infrastructure, isn’t there? You can point to it. Even photograph it. You can measure whether it works. But,...

Interview with Arnaud Blandin, Keynote Speaker at CEE4Impact Day 1.Your new book (The Seven Principles: Playbook for Sustainable Companies) argues that sustainability should not be treated as a constraint or a reporting exercise, but as a way to redefine business strategy. What is the most important mindset shift leaders need to make today? The most important mindset shift is that sustainability as a function does not exist, sustainability is an operating system, a way of doing things. We...

BLOG by Zsófia Hárs-Garami, Andersen Europe has enormous pools of long-term savings. Yet European startups, scaleups and transformative infrastructure projects frequently struggle to access the growth capital they need. At first glance, this may seem paradoxical. If both the capital and the investment opportunities exist, why does the connection between the two remain so weak? The answer lies partly in a market failure, but also in a significant information and experience gap. When long-term...