Company: BCO
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000078890-25-000059
Chunk: 195

Company: BRINKS CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 195
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•investment in information technology ("IT") and its impact on revenue and profit growth; 

•risks associated with the usage of artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies;

•our ability to maintain an effective IT infrastructure and safeguard confidential information and risks related to a failure of our information technology systems and networks, including cloud-based applications, and risks associated with current and emerging technology threats, and damage from computer viruses, unauthorized access, cyber attacks, including increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks incorporating the use of AI and other similar disruptions;

•our ability to effectively develop and implement solutions for our customers; 

•risks associated with operating in foreign countries, including changing political, labor and economic conditions (including political conflict or unrest), regulatory issues (including the imposition of international sanctions, including by the U.S. government), military conflicts (including but not limited to the conflict in Israel and surrounding areas, as well as the possible expansion of such conflicts and potential geopolitical consequences), currency restrictions and devaluations, restrictions on and cost of repatriating earnings and capital, impact on the Company's financial results as a result of jurisdictions' higher-than-expected inflation and those determined to be highly inflationary, and restrictive government actions, including nationalization; 

•labor issues, including labor shortages, negotiations with organized labor and work stoppages;

•pandemics, acts of terrorism, strikes or other extraordinary events that negatively affect global or regional cash commerce; 

•the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to foreign currencies and foreign currency exchange rates; 

•our ability to identify, evaluate and complete acquisitions and other strategic transactions and to successfully integrate acquired companies; 

•costs related to dispositions and product or market exits; 

•our ability to obtain appropriate insurance coverage, positions taken by insurers relative to claims and the financial condition of insurers;

•safety and security performance and loss experience;

•employee, environmental and other liabilities in connection with former coal operations, including black lung claims; 

•the impact of the American Rescue Plan Act and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on legacy liabilities and ongoing operations; 

•funding requirements, accounting treatment, and investment performance of our pension plans, the VEBA and other employee benefits; 

•changes to estimated liabilities and assets in actuarial assumptions; 

•the nature of hedging relationships and counterparty risk; 

•access to the capital and credit markets; 

•our ability to realize deferred tax assets; 

•the impact of foreign tax credit regulations;

•the outcome of pending and future claims,