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Bloomberg launches company-level geopolitical risk scores quantifying country risk
Bloomberg launched geopolitical country-of-risk scores for 7 million companies built with Seerist’ s leading geopolitical risk and security intelligence. Available on the Bloomberg Terminal and via Data Licence for enterprise-wide use, these scores enable risk managers, portfolio managers and traders to quickly identify 29 political, operational, security, cyber or maritime country-level threats impacting their portfolios.
Seerist provides a daily Country Stability Score( PulseAI) and Risk Ratings across 29 categories monitoring changes within a country’ s political and security environment. This intelligence is built from Seerist’ s proprietary stability monitoring algorithms and risk ratings generated by over 200 political, security and cyber-risk analysts from Seerist’ s Strategic Partner, Control Risks, measuring the business impact of key risks.
Bloomberg integrated Seerist’ s analytics with its best-inclass reference data and linked the resulting data set to every relevant company in Bloomberg’ s database, automatically mapping geopolitical risk factors to companies’ countries of risk and cascading those scores down to their bonds and equities. Investors can now quickly assess both public and private companies based on their country of risk and take their analysis further by layering in supply chain and physical asset data, as well as sector data to determine which political risks are the most relevant.
“ From political and operational disruptions to security and cybersecurity threats, our collaboration with Seerist enables investors to quickly quantify the business impact of fast-moving risks and integrate that intelligence into their workflows,” said Zane Van Dusen, Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products at Bloomberg.
UK could unlock estimated £ 61.94 billion annual boost to AI economy by closing data skills gap
The UK’ s Artificial Intelligence revolution is exacerbating the existing data skills gaps, costing the UK economy an estimated £ 61.94 billion annually in lost productivity, according to new data. The second annual Multiverse Skills Intelligence Report shows how workers are losing 27 days per year, more than 10 % of their working hours, to inefficiency in data-related tasks. to‘ what can our people do with AI?’ This should be a wake up call, the real barrier to AI adoption isn’ t the technology itself, it’ s the capability of the workforce to use it. The strategic imperative is clear, invest in deep, role-specific training that empowers employees not just to use AI, but to innovate with it safely and effectively.”
The report, which collates and analyses skills data from over 14,500 employees across 16 industries, maps out for the first time how data and AI skills could offer the critical bridge to translate record-high technology investment into business growth and productive output.
Equating to 4.7 hours lost each week, the sizable data skills gap directly affects the UK’ s ability to build the foundations needed to capitalise on AI. Without employees skilled in structuring, visualising and analysing data effectively, companies’ AI investments will struggle to come to fruition.
Euan Blair, Founder and CEO of Multiverse, said:“ The conversation needs to shift from‘ what can AI do?’
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