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Assessing the financial health of third-party partners has become a crucial element in ensuring the operational resilience of your supply chain. According to the 2023 report from the Financial Stability Board, economic interdependencies have significantly increased in recent years—bringing flexibility and innovation but also creating potential risks for financial stability if not properly managed. Understanding […]

In an economic environment where over 60% of European companies have faced operational incidents linked to their third-party partners, as highlighted by the European Central Bank in its Annual Report on Supervisory Activities, understanding and mastering key financial indicators has become essential for evaluating the stability of your business partners. These third-party assessment tools help […]

Anticipating Your Carbon Footprint by Assessing Suppliers and Identifying Scope 3 Maturity In a context where third-party environmental governance is becoming a major strategic issue, companies must now evaluate and manage the carbon impact of their entire value chain. Scope 3 assessment represents a considerable but essential challenge to ensure organizations’ operational resilience in the […]

As third-party risk management becomes a strategic priority, TPRM platforms (Third Party Risk Management) are emerging as a must-have standard. This shift responds to a dual imperative: ensuring operational continuity and meeting increasingly complex multi-country regulatory compliance. With over 430,000 third-party vendors assessed across Europe, Aprovall’s experience has helped define the essential features of a modern TPRM platform—now evolving into a broader […]

In 2024, cyberattacks have reached a critical level with a projected global cost of $9.5 trillion. The recent Change Healthcare breach, compromising the data of 190 million people, perfectly illustrates the catastrophic risks tied to the supply chain. Faced with this threat, where a new attack occurs every 11 seconds, rigorous supplier cybersecurity assessment has become a strategic pillar of third-party […]

Is your organization ready to handle a major cyberattack targeting one of your critical suppliers? In 2024, the breach at Change Healthcare exposed sensitive medical data of 190 million Americans and paralyzed healthcare systems for weeks—demonstrating just how vulnerable modern supply chains are. This wasn’t an isolated incident: 61% of organizations experienced a third-party data […]

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, known as “CS3D”, was definitively adopted on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, by the European Parliament. The directive now needs to be officially approved by the Council and signed before being published in the EU Official Journal. It will enter into force 20 days later. Member States will then have […]

The World Benchmarking Alliancehas just published a report analyzing the practices of the 2,000 most important companies on the planet in terms of human rights due diligence. The “alarming” results show companies’ delay in this area, and French companies are far from being an exception to the rule. The countdown has begun before the European […]