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Now available on D&B Credit! Our Country Insight Reports are now available on D&B Credit, our next-generation risk intelligence platform.
Country Insight Solutions
Identify risk and opportunity around the world. Click on any country to view its risk assessment for the current month. Select a date to view past heat maps.
Comprehensive Country Intelligence for evaluating risk & opportunities across the globe
Whether you are involved in financial risk analysis, strategic investment decisioning or supply chain management, understanding the changing commercial environment is crucial for effective risk mitigation and strategic decision making.
D&B's Country Insight solutions monitor changes in the business environment of individual countries and forecast country-wide developments which may affect the level of risk or provide opportunities in the short to medium term.
Enterprise wide benefits:
The solutions offered by D&B provide accessible, broad and deep insight into the core issues affecting a country, both now and into the longer-term. They also offer the following benefits:
- Identify risk associated with conducting commerce in specific regions.
- View country risk exposure levels clearly highlighted in interactive global maps.
- Assess supplier risk exposure by country with supply base views and supplier details.
- Access extensive research on countries with comprehensive and summary country risk reports.
- Tailored one-stop-country intelligence solution for the whole organisation.
- Focus on Country, Regional and Global level insight.
- Identification of key factors based on commercially-focused analysis.
- Commercially relevant and ‘decision-ready’ recommendations.
- ‘At-a-glance’ Risk Indicators.
- Simple integration of D&B’s Country Intelligence and Insight into your decision making.
Dun & Bradstreet's Country Insight solutions are compiled by a team of high-skilled analysts using exclusive aggregated micro-level data from our global network, as well as elements from our Data Cloud of over 330 million company records. That information is further supported by national and international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and other multilateral organisations.
Product Solutions
There are a range of Country Insight Solutions that can be utilised for your organisation’s needs. For more information about the difference in the product lines, please see the product features chart.
Products |
Country Insight Snapshot (CIS) |
Country Insight Reports (CIR) |
Country Risk Module – Integrated Solutions |
Summary |
Snapshot view of a single country’s cross-border risk exposure focusing on the Political, Commercial and Macroeconomic environments. Guide to payment terms and delays. |
In-depth analysis of a single country’s risks and opportunities in relation to the global and regional business environment. Current, short-term and long-term recommendations. |
The Country Risk Module expands on the company level risk insight by placing it within the context of Global risk. Providing both “at-a-glance” dashboards & access to in-depth country insight reports. |
Uses |
Evaluating operational environments, monitoring fluctuations in exchange rates, assessing payment term changes – allowing expert knowledge & commercially relevant forecasts. |
Strategic investment decisions, financial risk analysis, supply chain management – allowing effective risk mitigation & strategic decision making. |
Assessing headline risk profiles across supplier/customer portfolios and analysis on an individual country/company detail perspective |
At a glance risk indicators (D&B’s Country Risk Rating) |
Including rating history |
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Information on each country includes |
Risk indicators, rating trends, core outlook, key development, economic indicators, trade & commercial environment, trade & transfer situation, risk & opportunities *For more detailed analysis please see Country Insight Reports |
Risk indicators, headline issues & key recommendations, risk & opportunities, detailed analysis of core elements, country perspective |
Both Country Insight Snapshot (CIS) and Country Insight Reports (CIR) information is available (please see left) |
Level of coverage |
Country Level |
Country, Regional & Global level |
Country, Regional & Global level |
Format |
Web, customer hosted |
Web, customer hosted |
Web, customer hosted, option of e-alerts & print (International Risk & Payment Review) |
Subscription services |
Available on D&B’s: Supplier Portfolio Manager (SPM), Supplier Risk Manager (SRM), Portfolio Manager (PM), MyD&B.com, Country Risk platform, and D&B Credit. |
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Transactional services |
Available on D&B’s: MyD&B.com, DNBi.com, D&B Access, DBIA, and D&B Credit. |
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E-Alerts |
Optional | Optional | Optional |
Commercial & ‘decision-ready’ recommendations |
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Forward looking analysis |
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Additional offerings |
Optional integration to enterprise solutions, data only solutions (DaaS), consulting |
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Reports:
Country Insight Report (CIR)
In-depth analysis of a single country’s risk & opportunities in relation to the global and regional business environment.
Country Insight Snapshot (CIS)
This frequently updated report provides a snapshot view of a single country’s cross-border risk exposure, focusing on the political, commercial and macroeconomic environments.
Collections of Reports:
International Risk & Payment Review (IRPR)
The IRPR is a monthly updated subscription service (minimum 12 months) to our Country Insight Snapshot (CIS) reports - a vital tool in the evaluation and control of risk when it is necessary to monitor multiple countries or obtain an overview of a particular region.
For more information on how to complete your picture of risk with country insights, download our Country Insight Report eBook.
Data products:
WorldWatch data feed
Provides monthly Country ratings and headlines in a data format.