New Frost & Sullivan study explores how geopolitical disruption and trade fragmentation are accelerating the shift towards resilient, regionally embedded supply chain models.

LONDON, May 20, 2026 /CNW/ — Frost & Sullivan has released a new macroeconomic analysis examining how ongoing geopolitical conflicts, trade fragmentation, and accelerating digital transformation are fundamentally reshaping global supply chains through 2027.

Titled Global Supply Chain Transformations Emerging from Geopolitical Flashpoints and Trade Shifts, 2025–2027, the report explores how supply chains are undergoing a structural reset as geopolitical tensions, tariff regimes, industrial policy intervention, and technological disruption increasingly shape how goods are produced, financed, and moved across borders. The study argues that the transition away from globally optimised, cost-led supply chains towards regionally embedded, resilience-focused operating models will continue to accelerate over the next several years.

The research highlights how disruptions ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war to escalating US tariff measures and the ongoing Middle East conflict have exposed vulnerabilities across maritime chokepoints, trade corridors, and critical industrial ecosystems. Persistent freight volatility, rising insurance premiums, and longer lead times are increasingly becoming structural operating realities rather than temporary disruptions.

“Global supply chains are entering an era where resilience, regional ecosystem depth, and AI-enabled agility increasingly outweigh pure labour-cost optimisation,” said Nikita Pradeep Talnikar, Senior Research Analyst, Economic Analytics, at Frost & Sullivan. “The organisations best positioned to succeed through 2027 will be those capable of recalibrating their operating models around geopolitical resilience, digitally integrated networks, and multi-node manufacturing strategies.”

According to Frost & Sullivan, nearshoring and friendshoring strategies are rapidly replacing single-source and globally centralised supply chain models, while trade access, regulatory alignment, and industrial policy incentives are becoming more influential than labour arbitrage in investment and sourcing decisions. The report additionally highlights the growing importance of multi-factory manufacturing networks, localised compliance structures, and regional supplier ecosystems designed to improve operational resilience and reduce geopolitical exposure.

The study also examines the rise of financial multipolarity and the growing adoption of local-currency settlement mechanisms and alternative payment rails as organisations seek to reduce dependence on US dollar-denominated systems and mitigate sanctions-related risks. At the same time, predictive, interoperable, AI-integrated supply chains are emerging as critical competitive infrastructure, enabling real-time visibility, dynamic rerouting, predictive forecasting, and more agile decision-making across increasingly complex global networks.

The analysis provides detailed perspectives across aerospace and defence, semiconductors, automotive and electric vehicles, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, machinery and equipment, and chemicals, outlining the strategic shifts, operational constraints, and growth opportunities emerging across each industry.

“Supply chain risk has become a structural cost of doing business,” added Talnikar. “Organisations that align with policy shifts, invest in regional ecosystem depth, and accelerate technology integration will be best positioned to sustain competitiveness in an increasingly fragmented and volatile global economy.”

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The change reflects the company’s evolution from a 2020-era remote podcast recording tool into the all-in-one studio for recording, editing, livestreaming, and repurposing, now used by major media brands, marketing teams, and millions of users and their guests worldwide.

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Riverside, formerly Riverside.fm, today announced it has officially adopted the Riverside name and moved its home to riverside.com. The riverside.fm domain now redirects to riverside.com. No action is required from current customers.

The shift marks the company’s evolution from a remote recording app for podcasts into the all-in-one studio platform for recording, editing, livestreaming, and repurposing video and audio content, now used by Microsoft, Spotify, The New York Times, and Marvel, as well as by millions of users and their guests worldwide.

Riverside started in 2020 as a remote 4K recording tool aimed at video podcasters, a category the company helped invent. Six years later, the product is an all-in-one studio covering the full content workflow: 4K recording, video and audio editing, livestreaming, webinars, end-to-end podcast production from recording to hosting, and AI-powered repurposing into clips, social posts, captions, transcripts, translations, and show notes.

Microsoft, Spotify, The New York Times, and Marvel use Riverside to produce podcasts, marketing videos, webinars, internal communications, and broadcast-grade interview content. Continued investment in the platform includes Co-Creator, Riverside’s chat-based AI editing agent built directly into the editor that turns raw recordings into ready-to-share clips, captions, and social posts through plain-text prompts.

“When we started Riverside in 2020, we were building for video podcasters, and the .fm made sense. Six years later, that isn’t what we are. Recording is one piece of what Riverside does. Editing, livestreaming, repurposing, all of it lives inside one product, all of it AI-native. The .com matches what the company has actually become. We didn’t change the name for a new identity. We changed it because the old one had become too small.”

— Nadav Keyson, CEO and co-founder of Riverside

Riverside acquired the riverside.com domain in 2025 as the company matured from a recording app for podcasters into a studio platform used by enterprises, broadcasters, marketers, and individual creators. The full transition to the new domain was completed in 2026. Riverside.com is the company’s primary home going forward.

“The conversation we have with customers today is different from the one we had two years ago. Marketing teams want video and webinars. Broadcasters want interview studios. Podcasters want end-to-end production with AI editing and repurposing. They all end up at Riverside for the same reason: it’s the all-in-one place to record, edit, livestream, and repurpose at a quality bar that used to require a full production studio. Becoming Riverside, on riverside.com, lets the brand show up consistently for all of them.”

— Abel Grünfeld, VP of Marketing at Riverside

Riverside’s product direction continues along the same axis: deeper AI capability across the recording-to-publishing workflow, broader functionality for media and enterprise teams, and ongoing investment in the recording infrastructure the company was built on. Co-Creator is one example of the kind of investment Riverside plans to keep making.

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Riverside is the all-in-one studio platform for recording, editing, livestreaming, and repurposing high-quality video and audio content, with end-to-end podcast production built in. Founded in 2020 by brothers Nadav Keyson and Gideon Keyson, Riverside is used by Microsoft, Spotify, The New York Times, and Marvel, alongside millions of users and their guests worldwide, to produce podcasts, video content, marketing assets, webinars, and broadcast-grade interviews. Riverside is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and operates as RiversideFM, Inc. Learn more at riverside.com.

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BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Etsy, Inc. (NYSE: ETSY), which operates two-sided online marketplaces that connect millions of passionate and creative buyers and sellers around the world, today announced that its executives will participate in the Bernstein’s 42nd Annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York. There will be a webcast fireside chat on May 27, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. ET, which investors can listen to on our investor relations website at investors.etsy.com.

About Etsy

Etsy, Inc. operates two-sided online marketplaces that connect millions of creative entrepreneurs with buyers around the world. These marketplaces share a mission to “Keep Commerce Human,” and we’re committed to using the power of business and technology to strengthen communities and empower people. Our primary marketplace, Etsy.com, is the global destination for unique and creative goods. Buyers come to Etsy to be inspired and delighted by items that are crafted and curated by creative entrepreneurs. For sellers, we offer a range of tools and services that address key business needs.

Etsy, Inc. also owns fashion resale marketplace Depop. Our marketplaces operate independently, while benefiting from shared expertise in product, marketing, technology, and customer support. On February 15, 2026, Etsy entered an agreement to sell Depop to eBay, subject to regulatory approval and certain other closing conditions as set forth in the Sale and Purchase Agreement.

Etsy was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Etsy has used, and intends to continue using, its Investor Relations website and the Etsy News Blog (etsy.com/news) to disclose material non-public information and to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, you should monitor our investor relations website and the Etsy News Blog in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, and public conference calls and webcasts.

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