Monthly publication · Sector Risk Intelligence
Which UK sectors are failing fastest,
and how far is the damage cascading?
BCG’s supply-chain resilience research: when a UK sector deteriorates rapidly, the damage cascades through 3-4 degrees of supply-chain separation in 90 days. The UK Sector Risk Bulletin is the monthly published intelligence on which sectors are accelerating, who’s exposed downstream, and how to mitigate before the wave hits.
Sample snapshot, May 2026 bulletin
Computed live from intelligence.cluster_momentum_v1| SIC prefix | Sector | 30-day Δ insolvencies | 90-day Δ insolvencies | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Construction (residential) | +18% | +34% | Accelerating |
| 78 | Recruitment & staffing | +12% | +22% | Elevated |
| 52 | Transport & storage | +9% | +15% | Elevated |
| 56 | Food service & hospitality | +6% | +11% | Watching |
| 47 | Retail (non-food) | +3% | +7% | Stable |
| 62 | IT services | -1% | +2% | Stable |
Demo data. Real bulletins are calculated from a broad UK SME evidence base. Subscribers receive a PDF + machine-readable CSV by the 10th of every month.
Who subscribes
- Trade associations + industry bodies, ICAEW, Law Society, BVCA, regional chambers. Distribute to membership as part of the membership benefit; pay an institutional licence.
- Credit insurers, Atradius, Euler Hermes, Coface UK. Sector-level signal feeds into their own underwriting limits per SIC section.
- Supply-chain risk teams, manufacturers, retailers, FTSE-350 procurement. Identifies upstream sector deterioration before it shows up in their own supplier numbers.
- Invoice-finance lenders, sector-level concentration limits + early sector-rotation signals.
- Investors, public-market analysts and private-credit funds with UK SME exposure use the bulletin as a sector-rotation input.
Pricing
Monthly PDF + CSV. Single recipient. Cancel any time.
Up to 10 named recipients per firm. Branded delivery option.
Whole-membership distribution licence. White-label co-branding. Custom sector / SIC slicing on request.
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Email [email protected] for a sample PDF + pricing. The data is published; the analysis is what subscribers buy.
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