Control Risks launches the Top Risks for Business in 2023

Control Risks pointed to a combination of fractious geopolitics, armed conflict, disrupted energy systems, economic strife, and disarray in digital networks during the coming year

Businesses will face a historically broad and deep set of risks in 2023, posing interconnected and existential threats across geographies and sectors, says specialist risk consultancy, Control Risks (www.ControlRisks.com). Launching its annual RiskMap forecast featuring the Top Risks for business, Control Risks pointed to a combination of fractious geopolitics, armed…

Opportunity through uncertainty: After a stellar Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth performance in 2021, Africa finds itself in the midst of remarkable uncertainty

The continent’s response to a fundamental shift in the international food and energy landscape will produce a wide range of investment opportunities

Leading global specialist risk consultancy Control Risks (www.ControlRisks.com) and its economics consulting partner Oxford Economics Africa (www.OxfordEconomics.com) announced the launch of the seventh edition of their Africa Risk-Reward Index today: “Opportunity through uncertainty.” Download document: https://bit.ly/3xBSq5k The Africa Risk-Reward Index is an authoritative guide for policymakers, business leaders, and investors. The…

Video News Release: Launch of the 2021 Edition of the Africa Risk-Reward Index

Leading global specialist risk consultancy, Control Risks, and Oxford Economics Africa, will launch their sixth edition of their Africa Risk-Reward Index. We have a global team of Africa experts available to share their insights and views on Africa’s post-pandemic recovery and the key themes featured in the 2021 report.

Resilience and recovery: Africa’s complex pandemic recovery will be shaped by how its governments respond to innovation in healthcare, mounting debt pressures, and regional insecurity against the geopolitical backdrop of a recalibration of relations with the rest of the world

This recovery is also occurring against the geopolitical backdrop of a recalibration of Africa’s relationship with the rest of the world

Leading global specialist risk consultancy, Control Risks (www.ControlRisks.com), and Oxford Economics Africa, announced the launch of the sixth edition of their Africa Risk-Reward Index today. The Africa Risk-Reward Index is an authoritative guide for policymakers, business leaders and investors.  The report monitors developments in the investment landscape in major African…

Control Risks announces the Top 5 Risks for Business in 2021

In 2021, business will face a globally fragmented recovery from COVID-19; now is the time embrace risk and focus on the rebound

The COVID-19 pandemic, emerging digital threats, climate change and the US China relationship are among the Top 5 Risks for business in 2021, published today by Control Risks (www.ControlRisks.com), the specialist global risk consultancy. The RiskMap 2021 website: www.ControlRisks.com/riskmap Underpinning these risks, the danger of missing the rebound in a year…

Video News Release: Launch of the 2020 Edition of the Africa Risk-Reward Index

Reshaping realities: Africa’s post-pandemic recovery is likely to be prolonged and uneven, but could also be transformative

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly eroded the overall improvement in risk-reward scores seen across the African continent in recent years, but this should not deter investors

Specialist risk consultancy Control Risks (www.ControlRisks.com) and independent global advisory NKC African Economics, the Africa-focused subsidiary of Oxford Economics, have today launched the fifth edition of the Africa Risk-Reward Index. The 2020 Africa Risk-Reward Index and graphics can be downloaded here: https://bit.ly/3kks3Yy The index offers a comparative snapshot of market opportunities…

New players to even out Africa’s investment battlefield in 2020

The continent’s traditional development partners – the EU, China and the US – are facing increasing competition on the ground from new players, such as Russia, the Gulf states and Turkey

African markets will become increasingly attractive in 2020 at a time when wider global trends are more set against the interests of international businesses than they have been for many years. Fractious geopolitics in a US election year, a rising tide of global activism and a new level of cyber…

Africa Risk-Reward Index 2019 reveals the Trends Shaping a New Investment Landscape

The report offers a comprehensive and up-to-date view of the highly-dynamic business investment landscape in Africa

The fourth edition of the Africa Risk-Reward Index from specialist global risk consultancy Control Risks (ControlRisks.com) and independent global advisory firm Oxford Economics (OxfordEconomics.com) has been released today. The report offers a comprehensive and up-to-date view of the highly-dynamic business investment landscape in Africa. The respected index tracks the evolution of…

Specialist risk consultancy Control Risks’ Nairobi-based team available for analysis of 14 Riverside attack

Kenya has been on heightened alert since its military intervention in Somalia in 2011, which raised the threat of reprisal attacks by Islamist extremists or sympathisers

Specialist risk consultancy Control Risks (www.ControlRisks.com) is supporting its national and international clients with the response to the 15 January terrorist attack at the 14 Riverside Drive complex in the Westlands district of Nairobi. At around 15:00 (local time), armed gunmen attacked the complex, which houses the DusitD2 hotel and…