Risk Insights

  • Eastern Caribbean: A successful monetary union?
    Date first published: 02/05/2017 Key sectors: all Key risks: slow growth; sovereign default There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that before the est...
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    10 May 2017
  • Venezuela: Further into chaos
    Date first published: 27/04/2017 Key sectors: all Key risks: violent unrest; looting; deadly clashes; deadly clashes Violence has once again erupte...
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    03 May 2017
  • Will France’s two-round electoral system fail?
    Date first published: 20/04/2017 Key sectors: all Key risks: political stability The outcome of France’s upcoming 28 April first-round presidentia...
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    26 April 2017
  • No Syrian misadventure yet
    Date first published: 11/04/2017 Key sectors: security; infrastructure Key risks: war on land; political violence; terrorism On 4 April, a fixed-win...
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    19 April 2017
  • A CFA Haven
    Key sectors: all Key risks: CIET; CF ‘Currency is not a technical issue’, wrote former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, instead ‘it affec...
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    12 April 2017
  • Inter-Kurdish rivalries spill to the fore
    Key sectors: security; energy; trade Key risks: civil unrest; political violence; business interruption The rivalries between Iraqi Kurdish armed gr...
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    05 April 2017
  • United Kingdom: After the Westminster attack
    Key sectors: all Key risks: terrorism; political violence The 22 March car and knife attack in Westminster has highlighted security concerns in the UK...
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    29 March 2017