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Strengthen OECD-aligned due diligence

Identify, prioritize, and monitor adverse impacts across clients, counterparties, investments, and portfolios.
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The global standard for responsible business conduct

First adopted in 1976 and most recently updated in 2023, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct (OECD MNE Guidelines) establish government-backed expectations for how businesses should identify and address actual and potential adverse impacts on people, the environment, and society.

For banks and asset managers, applying these expectations means assessing risks connected to clients, counterparties, investments, and portfolios, and monitoring how they evolve over time.

The challenge is doing this consistently at scale across large company universes and complex business relationships, while looking beyond self-reported information and keeping pace with emerging risks.

50 years of OECD MNE Guidelines

Guidelines adopted

The OECD establishes a government-backed benchmark for responsible business conduct.

Strengthen due diligence across banking and investment
workflows with business conduct risk data

Client onboarding and counterparty reviews

Identify business conduct risks associated with existing and prospective clients and counterparties.

Lending and transaction due diligence

Incorporate business conduct risk into lending, financing, and transaction decisions.

Investment screening and selection

Assess companies consistently during investment research, selection, and portfolio construction.

Portfolio screening and prioritization

Identify higher-risk holdings and exposures requiring further review or engagement.

Enhanced due diligence and engagement

Investigate the incidents, affected stakeholders, and sources behind elevated risk results.

Ongoing monitoring

Detect material developments throughout the client relationship or investment lifecycle.

How RepRisk supports the OECD’s
six-step due diligence framework

1. Embed responsible business conduct

Translate OECD commitments into practical assessment criteria by incorporating RepRisk business conduct risk data into client onboarding, lending, investment selection, and portfolio-management policies.

Apply policies consistently across companies, portfolios, and markets using standardized indicators, framework mappings, and Due Diligence Scores to support screening and escalation thresholds.

Integrate a shared risk perspective into existing workflows through the RepRisk Platform, APIs, and Data Feeds, enabling risk, compliance, credit, sustainability, and investment teams to work from a consistent evidence base.

2. Identify and assess adverse impacts

Identify risks connected to clients, counterparties, investments, and portfolios using daily-screened information from 175,000+ public sources in 100 languages, intentionally excluding company self-disclosures.

Screen and compare companies using standardized metrics including the RepRisk Index (RRI), RepRisk Rating (RRR), Due Diligence Scores (DDS), and Country-Sector risk information.

Investigate identified concerns through the RepRisk Platform with access to the underlying incidents, risk issues, affected stakeholders, severity indicators, and public sources.

3. Cease, prevent, or mitigate adverse impacts

Prioritize companies and issues requiring closer attention using Due Diligence Scores (DDS) and other RepRisk indicators to distinguish higher-risk exposures across clients and portfolios.

Move from an initial score to the evidence behind it by examining relevant incidents, risk drivers, affected stakeholders, and developments through the RepRisk Platform.

Support engagement, escalation, and internal decision-making with evidence-based information that can inform enhanced due diligence, conditions on financing, stewardship activities, or changes to a relationship or investment.

4. Track implementation and results

Maintain oversight beyond the initial assessment with continuously updated RepRisk data, configurable watchlists, and alerts covering clients, counterparties, investments, and portfolio holdings.

Detect material changes in risk exposure over time by tracking developments in the RepRisk Index (RRI), RepRisk Rating (RRR), Due Diligence Scores (DDS), and underlying risk incidents.

Support ongoing client review, portfolio monitoring, and engagement by integrating updated RepRisk data into existing systems through APIs and Data Feeds.

5. Communicate how impacts are addressed

Document the evidence behind assessments and decisions using structured RepRisk data linked to the underlying incidents and public sources.

Create a consistent record of material risk developments across clients, transactions, investments, and portfolios through the RepRisk Platform and integrated data workflows.

Support internal governance, engagement, and reporting by enabling credit, risk, compliance, sustainability, and investment teams to explain the information considered and the basis for further action.

6. Provide for or cooperate in remediation

Understand the context of reported adverse impacts by reviewing the relevant incidents, affected stakeholders, risk issues, and public sources available through the RepRisk Platform.

Track company responses and subsequent developments using continuously updated risk data and alerts to identify whether concerns continue, intensify, or subside.

Inform engagement and escalation with independent evidence while retaining responsibility for determining the institution’s relationship to the impact and the appropriate response.

Why organizations trust RepRisk for due diligence

Human-led intelligence built for action

RepRisk combines advanced AI with human expertise to identify, validate, and contextualize business conduct risk information, delivering structured intelligence that supports informed decisions.

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Consistent and transparent methodology

Standardized indicators and assessments enable organizations to evaluate risk consistently, while access to the underlying incidents and sources provides transparency into every result.

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Alignment with global standards

RepRisk maps business conduct risks to internationally recognized frameworks, helping organizations translate broad commitments and policies into practical assessment criteria.

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Enterprise integration at scale

Access RepRisk intelligence through the Platform, APIs, Data Feeds, and established data partners, enabling teams across the organization to work from a consistent evidence base.

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The data behind OECD-aligned due diligence
Use business conduct risk metrics and specialized
risk lenses to assess, compare, and prioritize risk

RepRisk Index (RRI)
A dynamic 0–100 score quantifying an entity's exposure to business conduct and reputational risk, calibrated for practical thresholds and decay over time.

RepRisk Rating (RRR)
An AAA–D letter rating that blends company-specific exposure with Country-Sector risk, supporting benchmarking and integration in credit and risk models.

UN Global Compact Violator Flag
Identifies companies with high or potential risk of violating UNGC Principles, with visibility into operations vs. supply chain exposure.

SDG Risk Lens
A mapping of 108 risk factors to the 17 SDGs, showing where a company may be reversing progress, with sector-based benchmarking.

Country–Sector Matrix & Geospatial Analytics
Quantify risk at country, sector, and country-sector levels and assess proximity of extractive projects to biodiversity-sensitive sites for location-aware decisions.

Go deeper with Due Diligence Scores (DDS)

Due Diligence Scores evaluate more than 200 individual factors across human rights, environmental impacts, governance failures, corruption, and more. Linked to the underlying business conduct risk data, DDS reveal risk concentrations and the incidents driving them, helping focus due diligence where it matters most. The OECD MNE Guidelines package applies this approach to the topics covered by the Guidelines.

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