Geopolitical risk map
A geopolitical risk map built for investors - events tied to assets
Country-risk scores are useful for sovereign debt analysts and useless for traders. What investors need is a map that connects live geopolitical events to the assets they actually hit: equities, commodities, sovereigns, currencies, and the trade routes that link them. Market Ontology's geopolitical risk map plots active events on a 3D globe with affected-asset chips, chokepoint monitoring, sanctions overlays, and a cross-market transmission view.
- Live event layer
- Active geopolitical, security, and policy events plotted with severity and confidence.
- Affected-asset chips
- Per-event ranking of exposed equities, sovereigns, commodities, currencies.
- Chokepoint monitoring
- Hormuz, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, Malacca - vessel density and traffic anomalies.
- Sanctions overlay
- Active regimes and the names, sectors, and supply chains they touch.
Why country-risk indices fail traders
A country-risk index is a slow-moving composite. By the time a country's score has moved, the assets that price that risk have already moved much further. Investors do not need a score; they need the transmission - the path from event to exposure to expression.
What the map shows
- An interactive 3D globe with active events plotted by location and type
- Per-event drawers with affected assets, transmission notes, and source attribution
- Chokepoint HUDs at strategic maritime passages
- Vessel and aircraft tracking layers (institutional tier)
- Sanctions and trade-restriction overlays
- Country dossiers with key macro and political indicators
How investors use it
The map is the entry point for any geo-driven workflow. From an event drawer, you can drill into affected sectors, the relevant commodity feed, and the options context for the most exposed underlyings.
Start using Market Ontology
Opens in Market Ontology. First uses free, then pay per use.
Do this in Market Ontology
- Map geopolitical risk to the assets it affectsTrace geopolitical events through commodities, currencies, sectors and companies, with sources and the holdings in your portfolio that are exposed.
- Track The Policy That MattersMonitor policy and legislation, then investigate the businesses and assumptions affected.
- Trace Policy Into CapitalInvestigate how policy changes alter financing needs, issuer exposure and capital plans.
- Map Political InfluenceInvestigate PAC activity and political relationships behind corporate policy exposure.