With 2016 fast approaching, our attention is focused on identifying and assessing the trends that will shape the year ahead. Here are five trends to watch, based on insights drawn from Dun & Bradstreet’s commercial database of over 240 million company records, and our daily monitoring of regional events.
1) Compliance. From the Volkswagen scandal to China’s anti-corruption drive hitting its stock market, to Brazil’s governmental implosion in 2015, the list will only grow. 2016 will be the year when investors and C-suite managers realize that the biggest blindside risks come from compliance violations that can have sizeable effects on corporate earnings, and that this is a systemic, not a transitory feature of the risk environment.
