The world in 2025 is dominated by geopolitical uncertainty and interconnected risks which have the potential to impact the global economy, inflation, financial markets, supply chains and national infrastructures. In this context, ORX News has produced a Data Deep Dive (DDD) looking into seven years of publicly reported operational risk loss events driven and/or significantly impacted by geopolitical factors. This report also explores the common causes, impacts, and remedial measures for 11 key sub-topics influenced by geopolitics.
Examining loss events dating from 2019 to April 2025, we found 74 events in our database containing geopolitical factors which generated a total of $2.19bn in losses.
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