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Grant Thornton Baltic announced on 1 April that it has proposed considering the partial privatisation of the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) and, in cooperation, creating a new information system, MinuKüTS. The aim is to help companies finally understand which cybersecurity and information security requirements actually apply to them and what obligations they must fulfil.

In the past three years, the business environment has been significantly affected by COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, ever-rising interest rates, the energy crisis, as well as some instability in the world's banking sector in recent months.

In an era when new and profitable opportunities keep on presenting themselves for investing and many of these are not supervised by Financial Supervision Authority or other regulator, be on the lookout for specific red flags in order to prevent fraud.

This November, the Nasdaq Tallinn exchange’s alternative market First North started trading of the shares of the only Baltic pharmaceutical company J. Molner. Grant Thornton Baltic auditors had an important role in laying the groundwork for J. Molner’s market debut.

In August 2022, Grant Thornton Baltic concluded a financial and tax due diligence for an Estonian start-up company Qualitista.

Experts say that activity on the transactions market has returned to previous levels in contrast to the slump in the spring, but it should be remembered that more restrictive conditions are added to contracts in hard times.

The Nordic venture capital fund Inventure invested 11.6 million euros in the Estonian startup Jobbatical in 2022.

In May, the latest Estonian company will become listed on Nasdaq First North, the alternative list of the Tallinn Stock Exchange – the digital product sale platform Punktid Technologies AS.

An Estonian health tech Robus Group AS will be holding its initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North alternative market in April. Grant Thornton Baltic made a contribution to Robus going public, conducting the audit of the company’s financial statements.

Grant Thornton Baltic was recently again able to contribute to a market debut for an Estonian company: our auditors conducted a financial audit of a producer of high-tech ventilation systems, Airobot Technologies, which as of 10 February is listed on Nasdaq First North.

The auditors of Grant Thornton Baltic audited the 2020 IFRS annual report of the public interest entity UPP Olaines OÜ consolidation group.

In November 2020, Grant Thornton Baltic conducted a limited financial and tax due diligence for the start-up company Modularbank, which offers customer-focused financial services as a next-generation banking platform.

Every entrepreneur, as well as an individual, can be involved in money laundering, even without knowing or realizing it themselves, according to Äripäev's radio program "Kasvukursil". Read about hot topics in money laundering.

Experience has shown that not all creditors analyze the creditworthiness of consumers as they should, control activities sometimes remain superficial and therefore do not serve the purpose – ensuring that the borrower is able to repay the loan under the terms agreed. Merili Kiipus, Grant Thornton Baltic's Business Risk Analyst investigates further.

Grant Thornton Baltic OÜ advised Milrem Robotics in preparing a business plan and financial forecasts for the new Type X robotic fighting vehicle during autumn of 2019.

Businesses in various sectors do not have a positive outlook for their turnover forecasts due to the corona crisis. As a result, they may have an extra incentive to take the uncomfortable journey and start collecting bad debt. It may often seem that the only effective way to satisfy claims is to take legal action, but before filing a statement of claim you should consider other and less costly options. Grant Thornton Baltic's legal adviser Edward Otsa opens the subject further.