EMEA in Focus

Join Control Risks' Partner, Dane Chamorro, for discussion with Harrison Cheng, Associate Director in our Southeast Asia political analysis team, about the impact of political opposition in Singapore and Malaysia. In the recent general election in Singapore, the opposition Workers' Party took a record number of seats, and Singapore's northern neighbor, Malaysia, has had a series of electoral upset...

Join Control Risks experts Barnaby Fletcher, Mikolaj Judson and Oulimata Soumaré for a close look at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Africa’s oil producers. Traditional producers like Nigeria, Angola and Algeria are expected to see some of the deepest recessions this year, but the critical question is what the longer term effects will be, both for the oil and gas industry and for economies...

Join Federico Saleri for a discussion about the increasing threat of ransomware attacks and the unprecedented alignment of threat actors’ capability and intent. Federico Saleri is a Consultant and a member of the Online Solutions team, Joseph Buckley is the Senior Analyst leading Control Risks’ cyber threat intelligence analysis activities in London, Felix Manig is an Associate Analyst in Control...

Join Control Risks experts Tom Griffin, Joanna Turner and Clara Bonnor for a close look at how environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have become more pressing in Africa as a result of COVID-19 and how development finance institutions (DFIs) will play a critical role in supporting companies to prioritise these challenges. Both Joanna and Clara work with a number of our DFI clients acros...

Barnaby Fletcher, Control Risks’ lead analyst for Southern Africa, speaks with Vincent Rouget and Tim Cox, two of our leads on West and Central Africa, to discuss the developing security risks amid the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This is part of a series exploring the impact of COVID-19 on this dynamic, but vulnerable, region.

Barnaby Fletcher, Control Risks’ lead analyst for Southern Africa, speaks with Halima Aden and Rose Mumanya, two of our researchers based in Nairobi, to discuss the growing threat of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. This is part of a regular series of podcasts exploring the impact of COVID-19 on this dynamic, but vulnerable, region.

Vincent Rouget, our lead on West and Central Africa, and Clare Morton, an associate director in our business intelligence focused on Africa, discuss the effect that the uncertainty created by COVID-19 is having on investors and lenders in Africa, both in the short term and the longer term.

Barnaby Fletcher, Control Risks’ lead analyst for Southern Africa, and Bukola Bolarinwa, one of our Africa analysts, discuss the perils of disinformation in Africa, how it spreads and what governments are doing to combat it. This is the second in a series of podcasts exploring the impact of COVID-19 on this dynamic, but vulnerable, region.

Barnaby Fletcher, Control Risks’ lead analyst for Southern Africa and Vincent Rouget, our lead on West and Central Africa discuss the key issues facing organisations operating in sub-Saharan Africa as lockdowns, border closures and bans take effect. This is the first in a series of podcasts exploring the impact of COVID-19 on this dynamic, but vulnerable, region.

Kidnap and extortion have long been a feature of South Africa's challenging criminal environment. Some recent high-profile kidnap cases have pushed the issue up the corporate security agenda. In this podcast, Control Risks special risks analyst, Sebastian Boe discussses the current state of play.