The Infortal Worldwide team, including Christopher Mason, VP of Global Compliance & Investigations, and Dr. Ian Oxnevad, Director of Geopolitical Risk, were invited as featured speakers at the 2024 GRC #Risk Conference in London. The expert panelists shared their insights into how companies of all sizes can tap into the world of global risk intelligence to better manage their risk exposure.
As recent supply chain breakdowns have demonstrated, geopolitical risks can indirectly impact daily business operations and significantly increase operating costs.
Chris and Ian discussed how a company’s board, key executives, counsel, and compliance teams can leverage intelligence capabilities to get ahead of emerging global risk situations. In the case of supply chain disruption, anticipating potential threats can allow your firm to take action ahead of competitors, reducing costs and ensuring business resiliency.
“The right intelligence used at the right time can be a game changer” stated Dr. Oxnevad.
The discussion focused on how to conduct intelligence-based due diligence investigations to mitigate third-party risks, avoid bad actors, and protect the company’s bottom line. This requires conducting deep dive due diligence investigations on potential business partners to ensure that you understand who you are doing business with. In emerging markets this is paramount to business success.
Finally, the Infortal team discussed how intelligence-based due diligence can enhance the M&A deal making process by informing deal valuation and providing additional market insight.
As Christopher Mason highlighted
“Seemingly hidden global risks can derail your deal in an instant. Gaining the right insights will provide your team with the confidence to execute the deal and protect your investment”.
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Risk can no longer be just compliance driven and reactive and every organization faces market, economic, technological, social, crime and security risks. #RISK helps companies navigate the complexities of governance, risk, and compliance with practical strategies from top-tier GRC professionals, and stay ahead of the data privacy curve and gain insights from leading voices shaping data protection regulations and best practices.
With capabilities in 160 countries, Infortal has provided global risk intelligence and risk-based due diligence investigation services across all industry verticals for over 35 years. Infortal also provides board advisory, M&A due diligence, third-party risk management, integrity assessments, specialized executive backgrounds, reputation management, regulatory compliance, and crisis management services to high-tech clients, AI and robotics, biotech, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, financial institutions, energy companies, private equity, and venture capital firms.
