How a Global Asset Manager Improves Vendor Risk Monitoring with Owlin

The client

The client is a global asset manager with a large network of third-party vendors supporting critical business operations. The organization needed a more proactive way to identify and respond to negative news that could affect its business, especially for highly critical vendors.

The challenge

The client needed a faster, more effective way to detect risk events involving vendors. Traditional monitoring approaches made it difficult to stay ahead of fast-moving developments, while teams were often overloaded by the volume of news.

The organization wanted a solution that could:

• Deliver proactive alerts on negative news involving key vendors
• Surface critical events such as cybersecurity incidents, data leaks, operational issues, and regulatory developments
• Help teams validate and escalate relevant alerts quickly
• Support due diligence and ongoing vendor oversight

The solution

Owlin provided the client with a centralized alerting and monitoring solution for vendor risk events. Teams configured alerts around the issues most relevant to their workflows, including cybersecurity risk, cyber incidents, data leaks, and operational or regulatory issues.

With Owlin, the client was able to:

• Set up proactive alerts for highly critical vendors
• Quickly review summaries to assess relevance and priority
• Forward alerts internally to the right teams
• Track ownership changes, mergers, and other developments
• Use historical event visibility to support annual due diligence reviews

The impact

By using Owlin, the client strengthened its proactive approach to vendor risk monitoring and improved internal coordination around material vendor events.

Key outcomes include:

• Faster awareness of critical vendor risk events
• Quicker internal escalation and vendor outreach
• Better visibility into issues relevant to due diligence and ongoing oversight
• Reduced information overload through concise, easy-to-review summaries
• More tailored monitoring for highly critical vendors