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.
Global Risk Management Survey – Key Findings – 2023
Responses to the ninth edition of our Global Risk Management survey suggest that doing business has not become any easier since the last time we conducted the survey, in 2021. In fact, our respondents feel that doing business has become even more volatile and uncertain.
Global Cybersecurity Outlook – 2025
This year’s report shines a light on
the increasing complexity of the cyber landscape, which has profound and far-reaching implications for organizations and nations. This complexity is driven by a series of compounding factors:
– Escalating geopolitical tensions are contributing to a more uncertain environment.
– Increased integration of and dependence on more complex supply chains is leading to a more opaque and unpredictable risk landscape.
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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.
Global Threat Report – Survey Results – 2024
The 2024 edition of the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report arrives at a pivotal moment for our global community of protectors. The speed and ferocity of cyberattacks continue to accelerate as adversaries compress the time between initial entry, lateral movement and breach.
Risk Trends 2025 – IRM
Driven by the explosion of technological advancements and increasing global uncertainties, we need to look at what the key shifts in risk are and how practitioners should prepare themselves, and their organisations, for the future. The ability to anticipate and respond to these fast moving developments will be crucial for risk practitioners in 2025.
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.
Global Risk Report – 2024
The Global Risks Report 2024 presents the findings of the Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), which captures insights from nearly 1,500 global experts. The report analyses global risks through
three time frames to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities.
IRMSA Risk Report – South Africa Risks 2015
The first annual Institute of Risk Management South Africa’s (IRMSA) South Africa Risks Report 2015 has been compiled within a specific context – that of a country still reeling from political and economic turmoil.
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) on 29 July 2014 announced the end of a 5-month platinum sector strike by 80,000 workers which resulted in a fall of nearly 25% in mining production. South Africa’s credit rating was downgraded by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and Moody’s. The country’s outlook was shifted from stable to negative by Fitch Ratings, meaning that the country is a single notch away from junk status. The South African government continued to experience difficulties to meet the expectations of the population in terms of the fight against unemployment, poverty and corruption, potentially giving rise to increased social instability. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed its economic growth forecast for South Africa by 0,3 percentage points to only 1,4% for 2014 and by 0,4 percentage points to 2,3% for 2015, suggesting that the sustainability of the country’s economy is under severe pressure.
KPMG Internal Audit: Key Risk Areas 2026
KPMG’s 2026 paper highlights an evolving risk landscape where internal audit must become more agile, tech-savvy, and forward-looking. Ten priority areas are flagged: cybersecurity, AI and digital disruption, data governance/privacy, ESG, supply chain, geopolitical and macroeconomic volatility, regulatory change, human capital, business continuity/resilience, and organizational governance/reporting. The report stresses stronger assurance over AI ethics and bias, geopolitical exposure, continuity planning, and regulatory compliance, alongside deeper coverage of soft controls, culture, and talent. KPMG positions co-/outsourced internal audit support and specialist SMEs as levers to strengthen audit quality and coverage.