Risk reports assess the operating, structural, and external risks faced by an industry, enabling clients to better evaluate credit, supply chain, and operational exposures.Use Cases#
Credit Assessment: Integrate risk metrics into underwriting and lending systems.
Procurement & Supply Chain: Monitor supplier industries for potential vulnerabilities.
Strategic Planning: Identify industries with elevated operating or external risk exposure.
Portfolio Monitoring: Automate updates on industries that impact your client base or vendors.
What’s Included#
A full Risk Report typically includes the following sections:Executive Summary - Overall industry risk outlook and rating.
Key Risk Factors - Identification of the major drivers of risk.
Structural Risk - Industry-level factors such as concentration, barriers to entry, and supplier/client exposure.
External Sensitivities - Macroeconomic or environmental dependencies (e.g., exchange rates, commodity prices).
Current Performance & Outlook - How risk has trended and is expected to evolve.
Benchmarking & Data Tables - Quantitative risk indicators, often scored against a baseline.
Typical Workflow#
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Discover reports with /risk/v3/reportlist (optionally filter by Core vs Specialized collection). ⚠️ Note: We’re migrating our API documentation, which focuses on a limited set of endpoints. These endpoints cover all available data - for granular content we recommend /risk/v3/sections.
For the full endpoint catalogue, see the Swagger reference: For the full endpoint catalogue, see the Swagger reference:
IBISWorld Report API
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