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Under pressure: the growing impact of geopolitical risk

This time last year, with Covid restrictions lifted in most areas and the global pandemic still visible in the metaphorical rearview mirror, firms were optimistic about the year ahead. But then Russia’s tanks crossed the border with Ukraine, and all hell subsequently broke loose. Tensions between Russia and the West have been almost at breaking point, with thousands killed, a European energy crisis and the threat of nuclear war dragging geopolitical risk into the fore. 

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Risk classification: War and terrorism

RiskBusiness’ Mike Finlay looks at the implications of acts of war or terrorism on a firm, including malicious targeted attacks on a firm’s property or assets, acts of general public disorder and deliberate business disruption.

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