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Kenny Panjanaden, partner and Luxembourg lead of PwC’s Global AWM Market Research Centre, and Emanuela Sardi, partner and Alternatives Clients & Markets co-leader at PwC Luxembourg, discuss how Europe can mobilise institutional capital to finance innovation and growth. Photo: montage Paperjam/ PWC
FUNDS

Financing the companies that will shape Europe’s future

Europe does not lack capital: its asset managers oversee around €34trn, while pension funds hold another €2.7trn. Yet financing needs remain immense. PwC’s Kenny Panjanaden and Emanuela Sardi explain why the challenge is now to redirect more institutional savings towards innovation, infrastructure and Europe’s long-term competitiveness.

Anissa Maamri • 15.09.2026
The transaction must not result in the brand ceasing to exist. Once it has been completed, Value Partners will continue to operate under its own name and with its current management team. (Photo: Value Partners)
FUNDS

Value Partners is set to join Walkers Professional Services

Thierry Labro • 15.09.2026
“Even though we are a listed company, we are controlled by three families. We operate like a family business,” explains Thomas Campion, CEO of Itaú Europe. (Photo; Itaú Europe)
BANKS

Itaú Europe ‘3.0’ sets up shop in Luxembourg

Thierry Labro • 15.09.2026
The CSSF points out that such unauthorised malicious access “constitutes a major ICT-related incident that must be reported”. (Photo: Romain Gamba/archive)
BANKS

A critical vulnerability in Cisco is causing concern for the CSSF

Ioanna Schimizzi • 15.09.2026
The Luxembourg-based company Alumia (led by David Saab, pictured on the left) is set to distribute Findlay Park’s US equity fund (whose CEO is Rose Vangerven, pictured on the right) to professional investors across Europe. (Photos: Alumia, Findlay Park; layout: Paperjam)
FUNDS

Alumia joins forces with Findlay Park on a $7.5bn fund

Ioanna Schimizzi • 15.09.2026
In Laurent Durdilly’s view, Luxembourg must focus simultaneously on the two segments driving the fund industry: private markets, where human expertise remains crucial, and ETFs, which can be largely automated. (Photo: Nader Ghavami/BNP Paribas)
FUNDS

Laurent Durdilly: “In private markets, people remain decisive”

Thierry Labro • 15.09.2026
Vilma Domenicucci, head of tax at the Luxembourg Association of Investment Funds (Alfi), says: “From an economic and fund development perspective, we would have preferred a different decision.” (Photo: Alfi)
MARKETS

“It is investors who bear the brunt of this double taxation”

Souada Kermani • 14.09.2026
Payments made at the weekend are no longer groundbreaking. The transformation is now taking place elsewhere: banks are seeking to move their tokenised deposits between infrastructure systems that were previously separate. (Photo: Shutterstock)
BANKS

HSBC connects Luxembourg to 24/7 tokenised deposits

Thierry Labro • 14.09.2026
Petra Krizan, a blockchain specialist, has a background in robotics and experience in software security, digital identity and the custody of digital assets. She also teaches blockchain and big data at HEC Liège Luxembourg. (Photo: LetzToken)
FINTECH

Petra Krizan, chief strategy officer at LetzToken

Rebeca Suay • 14.09.2026
This growth affects 70% of banks and is particularly beneficial to custodian banks, buoyed by an 11.3% increase in the average value of investment funds’ net assets. (Photo: Matic Zorman/archives)
BANKS

Banks: 5.4% profit before provisions in the first half of the year

Ioanna Schimizzi • 14.09.2026
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Emma Pecenicic, Head of Digital Asset Distribution at Fidelity International, sees tokenisation as a new distribution channel for asset managers. Photo: Fidelity/Evoto
FUNDS

Fidelity sees tokenisation as the next distribution channel

Anissa Maamri • 14.09.2026
Nicolas Sopel is head of macro research & chief strategist Luxembourg chez Quintet Private Bank. (Photo: Quintet Private Bank)
MARKETS

The barrel that was worth a majority

Nicolas Sopel (Quintet Private Bank) • 13.09.2026
Bill 8814, tabled in parliament, could extend the use of compartments to unregulated SCSs and SCSp. (Photo: Matic Zorman/archives)
PRIVATE EQUITY

SCSp could gain ground against Raif

Anissa Maamri • 11.09.2026
Julien Wolff, head of risk managment at 6 Monks, and Quentin Werlé, head of portfolio managment at 6 Monks. (Photo: 6 Monks)
FUNDS

6 Monks brings the fund-of-funds model to crypto strategies

Anissa Maamri • 11.09.2026
In their controlled experiment, the researchers used two Android phones equipped with NFC technology: one communicated with the card, the other with the payment terminal. This is therefore not an attack that allows any cardholder to be targeted remotely. (Photo: Shutterstock)
BANKS

Why you should destroy your old credit card

Thierry Labro • 11.09.2026
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