In a year defined by supply-chain realignment, emerging geopolitical blocs and sustained conflict across key regions, geopolitical risk has moved to the centre of financial decision-making. In his keynote at Exile Global 2026 in Prague, Frank Gardner, the BBC’s Security Correspondent, will explore fragmentation, shifting alliances, rising defence spending, energy security and the weaponisation of trade and technology, examining how governments are recalibrating strategy and how financiers must adapt to changing risk premiums, politicised infrastructure and more transactional diplomacy. Connecting global security dynamics directly to capital flows, project pipelines and long-term investment strategy, this address will offer senior leaders a clear framework for navigating 2026–27 and beyond.

In this closed-door breakfast briefing at Exile Global 2026 in Prague, Frank Gardner, the BBC’s Security Correspondent, will unpack how great-power rivalry, sanctions, techno-nationalism and cyber threats are reshaping trade flows, the energy transition and critical-minerals strategies, and what this means in practice for export, project and development finance. Held under Chatham House Rules, this interactive session is designed not only to translate macro security trends into practical considerations for origination, structuring and portfolio resilience, but to give delegates the opportunity to test assumptions and ask the questions most relevant to their own exposure and strategy for 2026–27.  

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