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100+ structured alerts to identify and act on risk faster
Stay ahead of emerging business risks with D&B Early Warning Signals (EWS), a proactive risk monitoring solution designed to help organizations identify potential issues before they escalate. By leveraging structured alerts and data-driven insights, EWS continuously monitors critical risk indicators across customers, suppliers, and business partners, enabling faster response and informed decision-making.
With real-time visibility into changing business conditions, organizations can detect signs of financial stress, operational challenges, and other risk events early, helping reduce potential losses and strengthen risk management strategies. D&B EWS empowers businesses to take timely action, improve portfolio monitoring, and build greater resilience in a rapidly evolving risk landscape.
In an increasingly interconnected business ecosystem, risks rarely emerge overnight. They develop quietly through weakening financials, delayed payments, governance gaps, or subtle shifts in business behaviour. Without timely visibility, organizations often find themselves responding after the impact is already felt.
Early Warning Signals help you stay ahead by turning data into foresight enabling you to protect relationships, strengthen portfolios, and support long term growth.
Our approach is designed to help you anticipate and manage risk early, combining reliable data with expert-led insights across 100+ early warning signals spanning key business dimensions:
Identify emerging signals that indicate potential stress or deterioration
Analyze their severity, underlying drivers, and likely impact
Alert relevant teams with timely warnings for early intervention
Act with confidence across credit, risk, compliance, and procurement functions
Backed by Dun & Bradstreet’s trusted data ecosystem, Early Warning Signals provide actionable insights to help you
Early Warning Signals combine data-driven visibility with intuitive intelligence so teams can move from monitoring risk to managing it proactively.
Strengthen portfolio resilience by identifying early signs of risk and taking preventive action reducing the likelihood of disruptions before they escalate.
Intuitive dashboard views such as Portfolio Profile and Risk Overview enable focused analysis and effortless navigation across risk dimensions.
Gain instant portfolio clarity through visual distribution of suppliers by industry, city, legal structure, and sales range.
Access 100+ alerts logically grouped across Business Operations, Financial Risk, Compliance, Litigation, Management & Ownership, enabling faster prioritization and response.
Track how adverse signals evolve over time to identify patterns, emerging risks, and shifts across portfolios and counterparties.
Early Warning Signals are designed for organizations that need continuous risk visibility, including
Banks and financial institutions
NBFCs and credit-led businesses
Procurement and vendor risk teams
Compliance and risk management functions
Enterprises managing large partner ecosystems
For decades, decision-makers worldwide have trusted Dun & Bradstreet for data-driven insights. With Early Warning Signals, you benefit from
Globally recognized business data and analytics
Independent, third party validated insights
Standardized, consistent risk indicators
Deep understanding of Indian and global business ecosystems
So, you can move from hindsight to foresight with confidence.
Early Warning Signals (EWS) help organizations detect emerging risk indicators before they escalate into significant business disruptions. By continuously monitoring nearly 100 indicators across financial, operational, management, ownership, compliance, regulatory, litigation, and risk-rating dimensions, EWS identifies early signs of potential deterioration and delivers timely alerts for deeper assessment. This enables organizations to proactively manage risk, strengthen decision-making, and take corrective action before issues impact business performance.
EWS can highlight potential risks across the following business dimensions:
Examples of monitored indicators may include GST filing delays and defaults, EPFO payment delays or defaults, adverse financial trends, rating downgrades, litigation events, director or key-management changes, ownership changes, etc.
EWS helps businesses prioritize entities by organizing alerts according to their business dimension, severity, recurrence, and overall risk relevance. Entities are presented across five EWS risk levels: Very Low, Low, Average, High, and Very High Risk. Alert trends and occurrence history further help users identify entities showing persistent or increasing signs of deterioration. These insights allow risk, credit, and procurement teams to prioritize cases for detailed review, closer monitoring and take appropriate corrective action.
EWS supports supply chain risk management by monitoring third parties for early indicators of potential stress or deterioration. This enables procurement and risk teams to identify suppliers requiring attention, undertake further review, initiate timely corrective measures, and evaluate contingency options where appropriate. Such early visibility helps reduce potential disruption exposure and strengthens supply chain resilience.
EWS can benefit organizations that require ongoing visibility into customer, supplier, vendor, partner, borrower, or other third-party portfolios. By highlighting emerging risk indicators and changes in risk profiles, EWS helps these organizations strengthen portfolio visibility, prioritize reviews, and make more informed risk-management decisions.
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