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N I M B U S

Monitoring the Web for Business Risks

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NIMBUS - Probing Deeper for ESG Risks


Corporate disclosures

Audits

N I M B U S

How well do you know your business partners, suppliers, investees and customers? Most companies are poorly informed of Environmental, Social and Governance risks. Audits provide a useful insight but are resource intensive and infrequent.

N I M B U S monitors the web for third party allegations and reports all year round.

Scanning hundreds of web sites and blogs, we keep tabs on thousands of companies, all year long, alerting you to the hidden risks.

Global Markets - ESG Risk Exposure is Growing


Suppliers

Investees

Customers

Acquisitions

JVs

Legal

Reputational

Commercial

Global markets hold huge potential, not just for cheap sourcing, but for investment and new market opportunities. However, the significant and growing risks associated with Environmental, Social and Governance issues are often underestimated and mismanaged.

Financial

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Business Risks

ESG risk - a Challenge for Decision Makers


Suppliers

Investees

Customers

Acquisitions

JVs

Legal

Reputational

Commercial

Strategy

Due Diligence

Monitoring

Decision makers are faced with a wide range of ESG issues, often unquantifiable, across complex supply chains, investment portfolios and commercial relationships. In the absence of reliable data, decision makers implicitly accept residual risk - an assurance gap.

Financial

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Decision Making

Web Communities - a New Source of Assurance

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NGOs

Audits

Disclosures

Employees Communities

Media

Corporate exposure on the web is largely neglected as an assurance mechanism. Traditional risk assessment and assurance relies on audits. But these are only a snapshot and often fail to identify illegal or unethical corporate practices reported on the web.

Business Networks

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NIMBUS - Monitoring Web Risk Exposure


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NIMBUS scans hundreds of international, national and local web sites for news reports, NGO allegations and social-media coverage of unethical , irresponsible or illegal corporate behaviour. Expert review then rates ‘risk alerts’ for uploading to our online database.

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Protest groups

Whistleblowers

Worker Forums and Unions

Minority Interests

Local Communities

Government Departments

Industry Associations

Business Initiatives

WEB SCANS

NIMBUS - Scope of Monitoring Coverage

Incidents

Accidents

Allegations

Controversies

Non-compliances

Product recalls

Enforcements

De-listings

Sanctions

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Human Rights Community

Corruption & Fraud

Health & Safety Labour Conditions

Environment

Governance

Product Safety & Recalls

Natural Resources

Industrial Hazards

Social Responsibility

Intellectual Property

Money Laundering

Welfare & Security

Animal Rights

NIMBUS identifies risk alerts across 15 ESG risk categories. Alerts can relate to past pollution incidents, allegations about future impacts, legal non-compliances, stakeholder protests, product liabilities and more.

NIMBUS - Scope of Risk Reporting

Online company checks

Routine reports

Priority alerts

Customised market analyses

Due Diligence

Monitoring

Strategy


Dates (web report, incident)

Sector (UK SIC)

Company name

Location (three levels)

Sources – web links

Further Information

Allegation/incident description

Risk rating and Alert level

Alerts and monitoring reports are available on- and offline. Company checks can be undertaken online, as well as trend and market analyses.


NIMBUS database can be searched in various ways, including by company name or by a combination of search filters such as location, industry sector, ESG risk category, date.


Companies can be searched on the basis of a partial text search and then selected for searching. The number of risk alerts in NIMBUS will be shown. A single click will list all .


Search results provide alert summaries, country locations, alert level s and dates, all of which can act as sorting criteria. Full reports can be viewed for selected alerts.


Full reports provide more detail, including region/city, ESG risk categories, sector, full description, company response, sources, additional info links and related alert x-refs.


Advanced searches can choose, for example, individual countries, regions, cities, etc.


Power searches can combine filters, for example, location, industry sector, ESG risk category and date range.


Average risk ratings and risk alert distributions are available for selected searches, e.g. manufacturing in China since 2009. More customised database analyses can be undertaken upon request.

Enquiries

If you are interested in NIMBUS please contact Paul Wenman:

• +44 7720 416363

• [email protected]


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