Kroll Private Equity Risk Detect protects clients throughout the entire deal cycle by scanning digital chatter to spot emerging risks and mitigate business impacts in real time. Kroll uses AI/ML technologies continuously trained over 18 years by expert risk analysts to identify ESG, financial insecurity and cyber risks across the surface, deep and dark web, 24/7. That way, general partners can maximize value creation and manage value preservation in order to ensure future LP funding.
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The Kroll Global Private Equity Risk Index ranks the 300 largest private equity firms in the world against five key risk pillars: Environmental Impacts, Social Issues, Governance Failures, Financial Insecurity and Cyber Attacks, analyzing risk signals within digital chatter across the surface, deep and dark web. The index is released quarterly.
Key findings include:
As the term implies, digital chatter is the summation of conversations happening online that take place across the surface, deep and dark web. It includes open or indexed and closed or dark social media channels as well as forums and messaging apps. Today, risks to private equity emerge via digital chatter faster than ever before, making it an essential source of risk detection for due diligence and ongoing value protection against:
For nearly two decades Kroll has combined AI/ML technology able to analyze over a billion items per week with Human Intelligence able to continuously label those items and interpret their risk signals on behalf of our clients. This enables Kroll to stay ahead of who, where and what is talked about online, putting digital chatter into contextual, executive-ready actionable risk intelligence and delivering it to our clients, so they are always first to know and first to act.
Kroll is a trusted partner to 21 of the 25 largest private equity firms in the PEI 300. Its risk detection expertise is supported by a global network of experienced risk advisors, including 750 risk analysts specializing in signals intelligence, linguistics, psychology, compliance and regulation. With Kroll Private Equity Risk Detect, general partners are always first to know and first to act.
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