Byzantium offers investigations, Due Diligence reports and assessments,
aiming to provide clients with a basis for sound decision-making and to help
understanding, analysing, mitigating and managing risks and uncertainties. Read more
To a growing extent, politics and geopolitics are market movers. Indeed, during the last few years political and geopolitical uncertainty and risk have played preeminent roles in influencing markets.

And yet, while state actors and politics wield strong influence in world affairs, changes in the technological environment rapidly make way also for other actors, risks and uncertainties: individuals, ”influencers”, groups and organised interests acting on social media, criminal networks and lone cybercriminals, to name but a few. Thus, reputational risks generated by social media events have become concerns for many companies. Negative tweets or rumours on Facebook or Youtube can seriously hurt stock-values and even pose existential threats to companies.

Moreover, while making companies more efficient and economically successful, the growing interconnectedness and extended supply-chains of the gobalised economy have made them increasingly exposed and vulnerable, should these supply-chains falter

– as when natural hazards strike, affecting the global auto-industry and national electricity grids; or like when China moves an oil rig into Vietnamese waters in the South China Sea, triggering Vietnamese textile workers to go on strike to protest Chinese incursions, leaving American retailers without clothes to sell. Occurrences in far away lands thus impact actors across borders and all the way down the supply-chains.

Byzantium aims to define the drivers behind developments such as these and to provide its clients with guiding intelligence and awareness, making judicious assessments based on empirical findings and logical reasoning, whether as a basis for tactical decision-support or operational and strategic planning and action.