What is exposed
The business activities, relationships and geographies connected to a risk.
Company Risk Intelligence
See the risks.
Understand
the exposure.
A connected view of the risks around a business. Company data, relevant news and AI analysis bring the developments, dependencies and potential impact into focus.
Political connections & conflicts of interestA connected risk landscape
Select a risk areaCompanyRisk overview
Financial
The capacity to absorb a shock.
Understand how debt, liquidity and earnings pressure can make a business more exposed to a change in conditions.
- Liquidity
- Refinancing
- Earnings pressure
How the effect travels
Funding conditions → Financial flexibility → Business resilience
Operational
The dependencies that keep a business running.
Follow developments affecting production, critical inputs and logistics, and the businesses connected to them.
- Production
- Critical inputs
- Logistics
How the effect travels
Disruption → Business dependency → Costs and delivery
Policy & trade
The rules that change business exposure.
Connect policy developments to market access, cross-border relationships and the activities that could be affected.
- Tariffs
- Sanctions
- Export controls
How the effect travels
Policy change → Affected activity → Costs and market access
Counterparty
Risk can arrive through another business.
Look beyond the company to its customers, suppliers and other counterparties. Follow how pressure on one business can reach another.
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Concentration
How the effect travels
Counterparty pressure → Commercial relationship → Business exposure
Cyber
Digital disruption has business consequences.
Assess the relevance of reported cyber incidents to service continuity, sensitive information and connected businesses.
- Service continuity
- Data exposure
- Technology dependencies
How the effect travels
Cyber incident → Affected systems → Operational consequences
Governance
Decisions and conduct shape the risk picture.
Connect leadership, ownership and political relationships to business exposure. Examine sanctions findings, potential conflicts of interest and the evidence behind them.
- Political connections
- Ownership
- Potential conflicts
How the effect travels
Explore political connections Public action → Connected private interest → Company exposure
Company data
Understand the business
and its connections.
Relevant developments
Follow what is changing
around it.
AI analysis
Connect the change
to potential impact.
Political Connections & Conflicts of Interest
See where public power
meets private interests.
Connect political relationships, business ownership and policy decisions. Understand who could benefit, where potential conflicts arise and how your investments are exposed.
- 01
The public action
Policy decisions
and public advocacy - 02
The personal connection
Leadership, ownership
and family relationships - 03
The business interest
Activities that could
benefit or lose - 04
Your exposure
Connected companies
and portfolio holdings
An assessment you can examine
Follow the connection.
Examine the conclusion.
The relationship, the commercial significance and the strength of the evidence belong in the same view.
Explore Policy & Trade IntelligenceWhat is established?
Identify the people, their company roles, ownership interests and political relationships. Place public statements and formal decisions on a dated timeline, keeping advocacy distinct from decision-making authority.
Who could benefit or lose?
Connect the policy to the business activity it affects. Examine the route through demand, costs, market access or public contracts, and whether the company has meaningful exposure to it.
What remains unresolved?
Keep documented connections separate from inferred benefits and allegations. Examine responses, competing explanations and gaps in the evidence before drawing a conclusion about a potential conflict.
Why does it matter to you?
Assess the company’s dependence on policy support, the implications of scrutiny, and what could change if political priorities shift. Follow those exposures through connected businesses and portfolio holdings.
Leadership & ownership screening
The person. The role. The finding.
Screen key executives, directors and controlling owners for political exposure and sanctions. Keep potential matches, confirmed identities and the date of the check visible.
Political exposure alone does not establish wrongdoing. A personal connection does not establish improper influence, and a sanctions name match requires identity review.
The company risk overview
The risk.
The reasoning.
The wider picture.
Understand why a risk is relevant to a company, how it could affect the business and what would change the assessment.
What changed
The development that matters, with its timing and current status.
How the effect travels
The direct and indirect connections between the development and the company.
Why it could matter
Potential consequences for the business, the time horizon and the factors that could limit the impact.
What remains uncertain
What is established, what is inferred and where the picture is incomplete.
What to watch
The developments that could strengthen, weaken or change the assessment.
Connected through Atlas
A development
Business relationshipsCountries & activities
Company exposureDirect effects.
Wider consequences.
Wider consequences.
The relationships behind the risk
A risk can start
somewhere else.
A company’s exposure extends through its relationships. Atlas connects the business to the companies and countries around it, helping trace the route from an external development to a potential consequence.
Follow the immediate connection, then examine the effects that could travel further.
Explore AtlasA changing view of risk
Keep the assessment
in step with events.
New developments can change a company’s exposure. Track what has changed in the risk picture, why it matters and which assumptions need another look.
DevelopmentsAnalysisCurrent view
Materiality, timing and uncertainty stay alongside the assessment.
Company Risk Intelligence · Atlas by qyu
Understand the business.
See what could affect it.
Bring company risk into your investment decisions.
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