Governments

Governments manage public risk and make defensible decisions with confidence when economic, credit, trade, and security intelligence are unified across policy, security, and oversight workflows, enabling proactive risk management, resilient institutions, and effective use of public resources through S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Risk and Valuations Services.

Independent, forward-looking macroeconomic, trade, and scenario intelligence.

• Make fiscal and monetary policy more defensible when internal forecasts lack depth or credibility by using independent long‑term economic outlooks.
• Plan for disruptions with greater confidence by applying structured macroeconomic scenario modeling to clarify the impact of global shocks.
• Move faster on trade policy and negotiations when official statistics are slow or inconsistent by leveraging timely, granular bilateral trade data.
• Strengthen national supply chain resilience by identifying alternative suppliers and routes where there is over‑reliance on single trade partners.

Detect threats, monitor strategic assets, and anticipate security risks across maritime, trade, and geopolitical domains.

• Detect suspicious maritime activity earlier when threats are hidden in global shipping flows using real‑time maritime behavior monitoring and risk indicators, supporting better resource allocation and stronger security outcomes.
• Expose sanctions evasion and smuggling faster when hidden trade and corporate networks obscure illicit flows using shipment‑level trade intelligence and network analysis.
• Strengthen maritime domain awareness with highly detailed vessel, ownership, and up‑to‑date port intelligence, speeding decision‑making with industry‑proven information.
• Shift from reactive to proactive threat posture by using forward‑looking country and security risk forecasts to prioritize intelligence and allocate resources.
• Improve operational response speed and targeting with location‑specific alerts, incident intelligence, and automated custom alert generation, delivering faster “tip and queue” for analysts.

Improve visibility, supplier oversight, and cost discipline across critical goods and services.

• Reduce disruption risk and improve resilience by creating end‑to‑end visibility into suppliers, shipments, and routes when sourcing dependencies are unclear.
• Diversify earlier and reduce geopolitical exposure by applying country‑level risk intelligence to sourcing and trade dependencies when reliance on unstable regions is high.
• Prevent supply failures through early intervention using ongoing financial health monitoring of suppliers when distress threatens continuity of supply.
• Improve budgeting and procurement decisions when volatile prices undermine planning by using forward‑looking cost and price intelligence.

Allocate public and export capital confidently by assessing, monitoring, and stress-testing credit risk across portfolios.

• Strengthen origination decisions and reduce adverse surprises when borrower transparency is limited by applying consistent, data‑driven credit assessment across public/private and rated/unrated entities.
• Identify vulnerable institutions and emerging market build‑ups earlier through systematic screening of new issuers and counterparties across regions when risks are hard to spot by issuer, sector, or domicile.
• Enable proactive intervention and improve portfolio resilience when deterioration signals are detected too late by using continuous early‑warning monitoring across counterparty, sector, and regional credit risk.
• Respond faster to deteriorating economic conditions by supplementing lagging official data with high‑frequency macro indicators to contextualize market risk.
• Make stress testing and governance more defensible when default benchmarks and assumptions are inconsistent by using long‑term default history and scenario‑based portfolio stress analysis.

Monitor regional markets, issuers, and economic conditions through consistent, forward-looking intelligence.

• Improve regulatory oversight and continuity when issuer/instrument monitoring is fragmented by moving to centralized issuer and issue‑level monitoring.
• Detect regional credit stress and systemic risk earlier by integrating credit and economic signals by region when visibility is limited.
• Target policy and intervention more effectively when national averages mask local stress by using sub‑national economic data and forecasts.
• Strengthen market oversight and earlier detection when trading activity is hard to monitor by using consolidated transaction and pricing intelligence across credit and derivatives markets.