From Lagging Indicators to Daily Intelligence: Rethinking Country Risk

Bloomberg

20 hours ago

From armed conflict to political upheaval, geopolitical events are unfolding daily - and they're directly impacting investments and counterparties in these locations. Yet most traditional country risk metrics are produced infrequently on a lag, leading many firms to rely on manual monitoring of news and social media.
Join Bloomberg and Seerist as we introduce a newly launched dataset that replaces guesswork with grounded, daily intelligence. Powered by expert political analyst insight and AI, this data delivers country-level geopolitical risk scores and ratings tied directly to companies' country of risk - enabling risk and investment teams to monitor how fast-moving developments are impacting businesses on the ground.
Whether you're comparing counterparties or recalibrating investment decisions, this session will show how to seamlessly integrate geopolitical risk data into your workflow - so you're not only aware of global events as they unfold, but able to confidently quantify their impact.
Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products
Bloomberg
Zane Van Dusen is the Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products at Bloomberg. Zane began this role in 2019 and under his leadership, the group has become one of the industry's top data analytics providers, supplying innovative risk metrics, such as Bloomberg's award-winning Liquidity Assessment solution (LQA), based on Bloomberg's vast database of market data. Zane works with quants and engineers to build data-driven analytics that address a wide range of client needs from investment research to portfolio construction to regulatory reporting. Prior to this role, Zane managed the implementation of risk management, stress testing and reporting systems for Credit Suisse's Treasury and Liquidity Risk Management groups for over a decade. Prior to this role, Zane managed the implementation of risk management, stress testing and reporting systems for Credit Suisse's Treasury and Liquidity Risk Management groups for over a decade.
Victoria Cardwell
Head of Sales
Seerist
Victoria Cardwell brings two decades of experience at the intersection of geopolitical risk and commercial strategy. At Seerist, she leads sales to commercial and international government entities who need to monitor, analyse and anticipate security, political and operational risks. Throughout her career, Victoria has built and scaled teams to support clients across a broad range of sectors—including finance, insurance, energy, technology, and manufacturing—helping them navigate volatile environments by building risk intelligence technology into their operations. Victoria spent 8 years at Control Risks as Partner of Global Online Solutions, and previously held roles include at Jane's and IHS Markit (now S+P). Throughout her career she has focused on delivering intelligence as SaaS, for macro-economic as well as geopolitical and security datasets. Victoria holds a Master's degree in War Studies from King's College London and studied at Durham University.