Watchtower / What’s new
Product updates
Major releases, new datasets and useful improvements—with release dates and links to explore what changed.
Follow updates via RSS →Learn Watchtower with Simple and Extended interactive guides
A new learning guide connects plain-language lessons, detailed capability explanations and guided practice across Watchtower’s current workspaces.
Read update →Corporate and investment-vehicle credit ratings, with reported CDS disclosures
Search source-qualified agency references and public credit-derivative disclosures inside Global Bonds, with contextual access from company and banking research.
Read update →War Room, made easier: Simple view and guided tools
A clearer starting screen, larger controls, plain-language results and step-by-step place, dam, terrain, radio and water-example tools.
Read update →A full-screen War Room for global terrain and resilience planning
A complete fullscreen workspace, independently labelled dam and terrain catalogues, historical hazard layers, and evidence-led candidate-location comparisons.
Read update →A contextual AI assistant, help guide and evidence tools for Watchtower
Guide and Analyst modes connect the current workspace to cited documentation, reviewed data and specialist research tasks through each account’s existing OpenAI connection.
Read update →Global Risk Overview: country, regional and systemic evidence together
A consolidated country and regional risk map with twenty evidence domains, inspectable score drivers, source coverage, and the existing Systemic Risk outlook and track record.
Read update →A fuller demographic profile for every country in Watchtower
Explore age and sex structure, population trends, families, religious affiliation, languages, education, migration and living conditions in Countries.
Read update →Worldwide hazards and unrest in the insurance map
The Global Insurance map now brings together the original catastrophe monitor, worldwide hazard evidence, and military and civil-unrest reporting with source-aware icons and filters.
Read update →Political news, legislation and country-filtered alerts in Global Politics
Explore political and election reporting on the map, follow bills and legal developments, and create alerts for newly observed source records.
Read update →Government expenditure and debt coverage in Geopolitics and Global Bonds
Compare total government expenditure with GDP, inspect government-level debt coverage, and see the source years and consolidation basis behind fiscal inputs.
Read update →Global airport references restored in Mobility Intel
Mobility Intel now uses the maintained daily OurAirports catalogue, restoring global airport locations and making their source date and viewport coverage visible.
Read update →Location icons across Watchtower maps
Recognizable pictograms make locations easier to distinguish across Watchtower's map and globe workspaces, with source colors and native detail interactions carried through.
Read update →A consistent map experience across Watchtower
Icon-based map controls, steadier map frames and a consistent layer picker across Watchtower’s map workspaces.
Read update →Drone incident reports and geolocation in Conflict / Military
A dedicated drone-report layer adds source-linked attacks, interceptions, crashes, sightings and disruptions to Watchtower’s existing Conflict / Military map.
Read update →Map sources move into the workspaces you already use
Street imagery, transit, air quality, traffic stills and map tools now sit in their matching Watchtower tabs. The standalone Spatial Research tab has been removed.
Read update →Bank CDS premiums in the banking overview
A new Bank CDS view brings dated five-year credit-default-swap premiums into Bank Run Monitor, with summary cards in its overview and Financial Stress’s banking section.
Read update →Offshore currency counters and deeper derivatives data
Explore official dollar, euro and yen credit measures, Hong Kong renminbi deposits, and expanded BIS derivatives detail in Watchtower’s finance workspaces.
Read update →Spatial Research: eight connected map workflows
Explore street imagery, import private geographic layers, draw and measure, plan satellite passes, inspect public transit and Canadian AQHI/cameras, compare dated imagery and build a guided map scene.
Read update →Choose your Brief news and explore more data through MCP
Pro Brief and Daily Brief gain saved news preferences, while MCP adds native Commodity Atlas reads and newer public reference datasets.
Read update →Faster trade-map reads and more responsive dashboard processing
Targeted repairs reduce expensive trade-map scans, keep financial-history work off the API event loop, and spread large aircraft-data processing across smaller browser tasks.
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