Geopolitical risk has moved from the periphery of corporate risk management to its centre in the years since 2016. Sanctions regimes have expanded and intensified. Supply chains have been disrupted by political conflict and trade restrictions. Regulatory environments have diverged across previously aligned jurisdictions. And the targeting of UK businesses by foreign state actors — through cyber intrusion, commercial espionage, and influence operations — has become a mainstream security concern rather than a concern reserved for the defence and security sectors.
Geopolitical risk intelligence provides UK businesses with the analysis they need to navigate this environment: an accurate, forward-looking picture of the political, regulatory, and security developments that are most relevant to their specific operations, relationships, and markets.
What Geopolitical Risk Intelligence Covers
Sanctions environment monitoring: tracking of sanctions developments across the key regimes — UK, US, EU, UN — as they affect the specific countries, sectors, and relationships relevant to the organisation, with practical assessment of their implications for existing contracts and relationships.
Political risk in operating markets: assessment of the political stability, regulatory trajectory, and security environment in markets where the organisation has significant operations or investments, including advance warning of developments that may affect those operations.
State-sponsored threat assessment: intelligence about the activities of foreign state actors that are relevant to the organisation’s specific sector or position, including economic espionage, intellectual property theft, and supply chain targeting.
Regulatory divergence analysis: assessment of the implications of regulatory divergence between jurisdictions — post-Brexit UK-EU divergence, US-EU divergence, cross-border data regulation — for the organisation’s specific operations and relationships.
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