Lucanet's ESG report 2025: Built, measured, and verified

Published May 29, 2026  | 3 min read
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Trust is at the heart of what we do. Finance and tax teams rely on us to make their numbers accurate, auditable, and defensible. That’s a high bar, and we think it should apply to how we run our own business too. Our ESG report isn’t a compliance exercise or a simple reporting box to tick for us. It’s how we hold ourselves to the same standard we help our customers achieve.

 

From internal ambition to verified obligation

When regulatory changes under the EU Omnibus initiative moved Lucanet below the mandatory CSRD reporting threshold last year, we could have stepped back. We didn’t. We chose to continue reporting voluntarily under EFRAG’s VSME standard, because transparency doesn’t stop being valuable just because it stops being required. And then we went further. In 2025, our ESG commitments became independently verifiable for the first time. Our science-based climate targets were validated by the Science Based Targets initiative; our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data were independently assured, and our sustainability performance is now directly tied to our financing. These aren’t aspirations anymore. They’re obligations with consequences.

 

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AI in our platform: trusted by design, not by promise

2025 was also the year AI moved from ambition to architecture at Lucanet. We launched the Intelligence Core, our trust architecture behind every AI capability in our CFO Solution Platform. It’s built on principles we don’t compromise on: customer data is never used to train AI models, EU customer data stays in the EU, and tenant isolation is enforced at infrastructure level.

For us, trustworthy means built that way from the ground up, not bolted on after the fact.

 

Rethinking how we work

96% of our employees were using AI tools daily or weekly by the end of 2025. That number didn't happen by default. It required us to fundamentally rethink how we work and what we expect from our people and our leaders.

We revised our career development framework to make AI competency an explicit requirement at every level and built leadership accountability in from the top. With formats like AI Fridays and an AI Summer School, learning hours more than doubled over the course of the year, reflecting our new approach to learning, one that’s more fluid, peerdriven, and built on removing structure rather than adding it.

What we're most proud of: our employee engagement score reached 74.5%, up from 68% the previous year and 12.5 points above the DACH benchmark. Anyone who’s been through sustained transformation knows that numbers like that mean a lot.

 

What this all adds up to

ESG without operational integration is just reporting. Integrated into strategy, financing, product, and the way people grow, it becomes something that actually changes how a company behaves. That's what we're building at Lucanet, and this year we have the independent verification to back it up.

We still have work to do, and the report is honest about where the gaps are. Scope 3 emissions grew as the business grew, and extending sustainability requirements into our supply chain is a declared priority for 2026. Being transparent about what's not finished matters just as much as sharing what is.

We're proud of what this report represents, and grateful to every team that made it possible.
 

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About this report

Lucanet Group reports voluntarily for fiscal year 2025 under EFRAG’s VSME Standard, selecting Option B (Basic and Comprehensive Modules), the most thorough level of voluntary reporting available under this framework. Our 2025 Double Materiality Assessment confirmed four material topics: climate action and environmental stewardship, our people, business conduct, and digital trust. Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions were independently assured for the first time. This report covers fiscal year 2025 and was created within Lucanet’s ESG reporting and Disclosure Management solutions.

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    Lucanet is a global software provider for financial consolidation, planning, and reporting. Our user-friendly CFO Solution Platform is designed to match the exact requirements of finance teams by providing accurate and consistent information effectively. For more than 20 years, 6,000+ customers in 50 countries have already trusted Lucanet.

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