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ESG

The challenges of an ESG-strategy

It has become impossible to ignore environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges. Although many ESG regulations are still in their infancy, companies are already under pressure to formulate their ESG policies and meet the associated targets.

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Credit Risk Management

Managing green money

ESG scores to measure sustainability are in the making and companies are increasingly forcing themselves to be transparent about the organization's sustainable policies. It is logical that sustainability is now playing an increasingly important role in business, and where money is spent and invested there is a credit manager. As a result, the credit manager must also start paying attention to sustainability. What should you pay attention to?

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ESG

ESG is the new corporate social responsibility

Whereas before you could still hear everyone talking about corporate social responsibility, now everyone seems to be concerned with ESG. But what exactly are the differences between ESG and CSR?ย  And what does ESG entail? This blog explains how ESG came about and why ESG is the new CSR.

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Compliance

What do sanctions imply for my organisation?

Today it became known that the EU wants to ban all Russian oil as part of the sixth round of sanctions. As an organisation, it is difficult to keep track of who has been sanctioned and to see what impact this will have on your organisation. And this while strict enforcement takes place.

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Master Data Management

Data culture is decisive for data truth

Do you need a single source of truth (SSOT) for data? Yes. But where do you start? In this blog, we discuss five steps you can take to achieve success with a single source of truth for data.

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Credit Risk Management

Business payment term Belgium shortened to maximum 60 days

Since February 1, 2022, Belgian legislation has changed the payment terms between companies. Payment terms longer than 60 days have been annulled by law since February 1. The new standard payment term is 30 days with a maximum of 60 days if contractually agreed.

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Credit Risk Management

xAI for tomorrow's credit scoring

Joris Peeters talks about the use of xAI within Credit Management, which is going to help us with the reliability of credit scoring and first and foremost complies with the laws and regulations surrounding ethics and transparency.

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Data Analytics

Trade intensity index: an indicator of economic activity

During the first months when Covid-19 kicked in, Altares Dun & Bradstreet's Data Scientists developed an index that could measure trading intensity. The goal of this was to support our clients with relevant, forward-looking and actionable insights from our data.

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