Risk in Focus – Hot Topics for Internal Auditors – Global Summary – 2026
The 2026 Global Risk in Focus report shows cybersecurity remaining the top global risk and audit priority, while digital disruption (including AI) and geopolitical uncertainty record the sharpest year-on-year increases. Other leading risks are business resilience, human capital, and regulatory change, with notable regional spikes in digital disruption (Latin America, Middle East, Africa) and geopolitical risk (North America, Europe, Latin America). Audit plans are converging globally around cybersecurity, governance/corporate reporting, and business resilience, with growing but still lagging audit attention to digital disruption, geopolitical risk, and human capital constraints.
Risk in Focus – Hot Topics for Internal Auditors – AFRICA – 2026
The report highlights Africa’s rapidly evolving risk landscape, dominated by cybersecurity, digital disruption, business resilience, fraud, and financial/liquidity pressures. Acute foreign exchange shortages, inflation, and climate-related shocks heighten liquidity risk and force short-term decision-making, especially in public finances and infrastructure projects. Rapid digitalization and a dynamic fintech sector create major opportunities for inclusion and efficiency, but low cyber awareness, weak data governance, and skills gaps amplify cybercrime and fraud exposure. Chief audit executives are rebalancing toward more advisory work, embedding resilience, culture, and governance into audits, and pushing for better tools, training, and board engagement to respond to these interconnected threats.
Anticipating Risks and Seizing Opportunities – PwC Risk Roadmap 2026
PwC’s Risk Roadmap for 2026 outlines how geopolitical volatility, rapid regulatory change and technological disruption are reshaping the risk landscape, demanding resilience and intelligent risk‑taking from leaders. It highlights macrotrends (geopolitical realignment, regionalism, declining multilateralism), a dense EU regulatory pipeline, and the need to reinvent compliance as a strategic, tech‑enabled capability. Seven “hot topics” are profiled: cyber security, AI, sustainability/internal controls, third‑party risk, supply chain, tax/transfer pricing, and people/organisation, each with risk drivers, red flags and board‑level questions to strengthen assurance, resilience and value creation by 2026.
Unlocking Opportunities: Executives Perspectives on Risks and Opportunities – 2026
The 2026 “Executive Perspectives on Top Risks and Opportunities” survey of 1,540 board and C-suite leaders finds strong optimism for growth despite persistent uncertainty. Leaders see significant revenue potential, with ecosystem expansion through strategic alliances and partnerships a key lever, while geographic expansion is approached more cautiously. Cyber threats, third‑party risks and legacy IT constraints dominate the near‑term risk landscape, and AI is viewed as both a transformative growth driver and a major source of security, integration and talent risks. Over the next decade, customers and competition, security and privacy, AI deployment, markets and economies, and talent challenges are the top long‑term concerns.
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Indlulamithi South Africa Scenarios 2035
The Indlulamithi South Africa Scenarios 2035 explores three plausible futures for South Africa between 2024 and 2035, built from 26 high‑impact, high‑uncertainty variables and a refined social cohesion barometer. “Hadeda Home” imagines a fragile, compromise-driven democracy with sluggish reform; “Vulture Culture” depicts a populist, authoritarian, economically stagnant and crime‑ridden narco‑state; and “Weaver Work” portrays a cooperative nation with effective coalitions, green and inclusive growth, institutional renewal and social mobilisation. The scenarios aim to inform long‑term, evidence‑based planning and galvanise collective action across sectors.