Risk Insights
Cuba: A frontier economy in crisis
Date first published: 08/06/2017 Key risks: slow growth; sovereign payment Key sectors: tourism; agriculture 1950’s Havana was a city of giant cas...
Libya: The deep roots of Libyan militancy
Date first published: 30/05/2017 Key sectors: energy; utilities; foreign investment Key risks: terrorism; civil unrest; political violence The 22 Ma...
Ecuador: Lenin Moreno’s turn?
Date first published: 25/05/2017 Key sectors: all Key risks: policy continuity; political stability; governability; corruption fallout ‘I am a pre...
Côte d’Ivoire: After the mutiny
Date: 18/05/2017 Key sectors: cocoa Key risks: military mutiny; budget deficit; muted economic growth On Friday 12 May, soldiers fired shots into th...
South Korea: Moon’s rise turns tide against chaebol
Date first published: 09/05/2017 Key sectors: all Key risks: reform; political gridlock On 9 May liberal candidate Moon Jae-in emerged victor in So...
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...
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...
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...- No Syrian misadventure yet
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... 
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...
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...
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...
