The Top 5 Risks for 2018
Global risk consultancy Control Risks warns that businesses in 2018 could face uncertainty due to the increasingly personalized and assertive style of national leaders whose decisions are hard to predict. “Despite the most positive global economic outlook since the end of the financial crisis, we are entering a year of geo-political fragility that has the potential to trigger shockwaves to global stability and business confidence,” said Control Risks CEO Richard Fenning. Below are the firm’s predictions of the top five risks this year: North Korea escalation – War on the Korean peninsula is unlikely, but while the paths of escalation are clear, de-escalation is harder to plot. The search is on for the least bad option. The risks of miscalculation […]