Today EIU announced the launch of Operational Risk, an integrated service that combines EIU’s market-leading data and country expertise in a rigorous risk-modelling framework. 

Operational Risk enables financial institutions, governments and corporations to identify macroeconomic and geopolitical risks that might substantially change the business operating environment across 180 markets and 26 industry sub-sectors.

Led by EIU’s worldwide network of country analysts, Operational Risk integrates risk scores and ratings with thematic analysis, providing clients with the reliable and trusted information they need to monitor and mitigate risk.

Operational Risk provides in one product offering:

• Scores and ratings across ten key risk categories and 70 subcategories

• Downloadable data that can be incorporated into risk models, reports or presentations 

• Risk scenarios watchlist with insights on global and regional risks outside of our central forecast

• In-depth analysis of political and economic events that have an impact on business conditions 

“Recent economic and geopolitical events, such as the covid-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine, highlight how much financial institutions, governments and corporates need a standard framework to evaluate present conditions and potential shifts in a country’s operating environment. EIU’s Operational Risk service equips our clients with a quantitative and qualitative assessment of economic, political and regulatory factors in order to make swift operational risk decisions.”

CODY FELDMAN, SENIOR ANALYST AND LEAD FOR OPERATIONAL RISK AT EIU

Learn more about Operational Risk here.