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  • The Fearless Girl Beckons: Tracking Gender Diversity
  • Rating the Banks
  • US Elections and Corporate Spending
  • Avoiding the Land Grab: Responsible Farmland Investing
  • Beyond Market Forces: Regulating the Global Security Industry
  • Boosting Access to Medicine
  • Electric Jeepneys Challenge a Philippine Icon
  • Rats and Robots Sniff out Landmines
  • Green Jobs Transition Must Accelerate
  • Kung-Fu Peacebuilding

Independent analysis of political, environmental, social, economic and security issues. All views are my own.

Author: Sheila Oviedo

I am an experienced analyst combining expertise in political, security, environmental, social and economic risk analysis. All blog entries are based on personal interest and opinions are my own. This blog is not affiliated with any ESG research or political risk consultancy firm. Follow me on Twitter @Risk_Spotlight.

Tax Reforms are Coming, Who is Most at Risk? (Round 1)

Let me begin with a disclaimer: I am neither a tax expert nor a financial analyst. I am not even … More

tax avoidance, tax reforms

Gender Pay Equity: Amazon Update

    So Amazon decided to disclose pay figures per gender and well, salaries for women are nearly on par with … More

Amazon.com, Expedia, Gender pay gap

Quick Take: ICBC’s Enviro Stress Testing

    The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s largest bank by assets, has released a new … More

climate change, environmental risks, ICBC, lending risks

Fossil Fuel Financing Round 2: Lloyds Banking Group

This is the second of my blog series on Fossil Fuel Financing.      The Fair Finance Guide cited Lloyds Banking Group … More

Fossil Fuel Financing, Lloyds Bank, Lloyds Banking Group

Criminals Do Steal from Central Banks

TL;DR: Central banks may become the juicy cyber theft targets of the future so they need to step up their … More

Bangladesh heist, Cyber Security, Federal Reserve, information Security, Transparency

Gender Pay Equity: The Showdown Begins

TL;DR: Amazon’s resistance to address gender pay gap further hurts the company’s reputation as peers start to comply with pay parity … More

Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Compensation, Gender pay gap, GoDaddy.Com, Intel Corporation, Salesforce.com

Fossil Fuel Financing Round 1: Barclays

This is the first of my blog series on Fossil Fuel Financing.      UK-based Barclays Plc was cited by the … More

Barclays Plc, Fossil Fuel Financing

Valeant is a House Built on Quicksand

    Today Valeant Pharmaceuticals International announced a lower earnings forecast and, more importantly, warned that it might miss debt payments. … More

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International

New Blog Series: Fossil Fuel Financing

    ‘Tis the reporting season for most companies, which overlaps with Earth Day celebrations in April. I am joining … More

banks, Fair Finance, fossil fuel, project finance

Quick Take: BTG Pactual and the Cost of a CEO Mishap

On 13 March, the Financial Times reported that the Norwegian oil fund has dropped Brazilian firm BTG Pactual, the latest in … More

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