Risk Advisory

Mitigate Risk, Maximize Reward

Forward Risk provides bespoke risk assessments and advice to help clients enter new markets and business relationships, identify opportunities and threats, and navigate challenging and changing environments. The goal is to mitigate risk and maximize reward.

Global Research Capabilities

We combine global research reach with analytical rigor, supported by in-house language capabilities, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.

How We Research

Our research includes thorough examination of news and social media in both open sources and proprietary databases; civil and criminal litigation filings; regulatory and sanctions sources that include best-in-class global watchlists and databases; property records; and other relevant public records in English and local languages.

We dig deeply and tenaciously, and exercise a high level of care when it comes to former names, name variations, and aliases, and filtering false positive results. In addition to identifying risks associated with individuals and entities, we contextualize them and illuminate their relevance in a clear and concise fashion.

Select Engagements

Market Entry – Payments Processing: Provide a US payments processing company interested in entering a new market with a more comprehensive understanding of the local regulatory and political environment, as well as the associated political and commercial risks.

Iran Sanctions: Provide a client with a detailed overview of the impact of US sanctions on Iran vis-a-vis Chinese companies, focusing specifically on exemptions and waivers, and the process by which companies might be able to obtain these.