Analysis & Opinion
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Claims, global programmes and hard market top agenda as San Millán returns as Igrea president
When Daniel San Millán took over as president of Spanish risk management association Igrea for a second time in May,…
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Cyber risk management improving in Europe
CRE spoke to James Tuplin, head of international cyber at AXA XL, about some of the trends in cyber risk…
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Pace of change causing risk management problems
The pace of change is hampering risk managers’ ability to identify, manage and mitigate their organisations’ risks, according to Francesco…
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Artificial intelligence offers big improvement in supply chain risk management
Earlier this year, Zurich Insurance announced that it had entered a strategic agreement with riskmethods GmbH, a Munich-based company that…
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Business interruption creating new challenges
The cost of replacing physical assets is being dwarfed by subsequent business interruption costs, as Florence Louppe from Risk Frontiers…
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Could the US opioid epidemic be contagious?
The US is in the middle of an opioid epidemic, causing an estimated $504bn of economic damage and resulting in…
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Lloyd’s in strong position to continue German growth despite Brexit: Blumenthal
Lloyd’s refuses to shift into defensive mode in Germany and the rest of Europe as a result of uncertainty surrounding…
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Time for technical underwriting
Hartmut Mai replaced Andreas Berger as chief regions and markets officer for central and eastern Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa…
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Leveraging AI to improve the customer experience
Technology is continually improving the customer experience in the insurance industry. One area that has been a problem, not just…
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Cyber: A threat without borders
Most cyber attacks are multinational and show little regard for borders. As a result, cyber risk transfer is ideally suited…
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Capturing the abstract: How captives can be used to manage intangible risks
The most valuable assets a company owns often are no longer physical. Indeed, several studies indicate that the intangible assets…
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Will diesel emissions fuel a rise in personal injury claims?
Evidence of the harmful effects of diesel emissions is growing, resulting in it being likened to another toxic ‘timebomb’. These…
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Learning risk management lessons from pharma recalls
The pharmaceutical industry is a very highly regulated industry, where quality control is extremely important and high profile. But as…
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Don’t let the bed bugs bite!
Bed bugs have been around since the dawn of time; originally, they were using bats as hosts and began feeding…
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Brazil: a market of both challenge and opportunity for risk managers with global programmes
In the early 2000s, Brazil was heralded alongside Russia, India and China as one of the ‘big four’ developing economies…
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Leveraging new technology to efficiently manage a global partner network
Globalisation has reduced the distances and barriers between countries, allowing corporations to perform business in multiple markets, which has driven…
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The curious contradiction of M&A risk transfer
Mary Duffy, global head of M&A insurance at AIG, explains why it pays for risk managers to be front and…
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Time to prepare for a sustained hard market
It seems that the corporate insurance market is finally turning. If they have not already done so, risk and insurance…
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Tech to drive risk prevention trend
Technology will help shift risk management emphasis onto prevention rather than transfer, Fujitsu’s chief technology officer for the Europe, Middle…
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Tackling the big risks
We spoke to Claire McDonald, country manager for the UK and Ireland at Risk Frontiers Europe sponsor HDI Global, about…