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Europe
Keeping a lid on it – Africa
Commercial Risk Africa’s Kapila Gohel met Martin Rossouw, Risk Services General Manager at Mediclinic International, the South Africa-based global healthcare group. One of the big risks faced is the management…
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Europe
Time to knock down the ivory towers – Africa
Adrian Ladbury, Editor of Commercial Risk Europe, met Gert Cruywagen, Director of Risk at Tsogo Sun Group, founder of the Cruywagen-IRMSA Risk Foundation in 2009 and a member of the…
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Europe
Time to lose the gobbledygook – Africa
The Global Risk Frontiers survey asks risk managers how the discipline can be truly embedded within organisations to ensure that it plays an active role in decision making rather than…
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Europe
Risk leadership is critical – Africa
Leadership from the top is essential when attempting to tackle big corporate culture challenges and attempting to truly embed risk management through the organisation. The risk managers who took part…
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Europe
The time is right – Africa
Mark Robins, Senior Vice President: Group Risk, at AngloGold Ashanti, the South African-based international gold mining group and member of the executive committee at IRMSA, believes that the time has…
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Europe
Governance code forces risk management action in corporate SA – Africa
The impact of the King committee corporate governance code [last updated by King III in 2009] for South African businesses cannot be overestimated. A good example of its impact is…
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CRE Insurance
EIOPA moves to help buyers with complaints against intermediaries
In a bid to better protect buyers of insurance, EIOPA has launched a public consultation on guidelines that aim to ensure complaints made against insurance intermediaries are properly dealt with.
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Association News
Airmic confident ‘tide has turned’ in disclosure debate
The UK insurance buyers' association Airmic says that reform of the country's more than 100-year-old insurance contract law now looks more likely. Commenting on the recent insurance industry responses to…
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Association News
AMRAE re-elects president Canaméras and chooses new board member
France's risk management association has re-elected Gilbert Canaméras as president and named Sophie Maguer, the risk manager at Euro Disney, as a new member of the board.
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CRE Insurance
Influx of non-traditional reinsurance capacity changing marketplace say brokers
Global reinsurance capital has grown to record levels on the back of an influx of funds from non-traditional sources that is changing the face of the market, according to leading…
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CRE Insurance
Privatisation of Brazilian reinsurer won’t affect market capacity, say experts
The looming privatisation of IRB-Brasil RE, Brazil's leading reinsurance company, is unlikely to affect capacity in the local market, according to one of its main rivals.
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CRE Insurance
Insurers braced for flurry of financial crisis-based lawsuits
Insurers are bracing themselves for a flurry of lawsuits against financial institutions related to liabilities from the credit crunch and financial crisis.
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CRE Insurance
Corporate round-up
ACE announces key changes to management team in Germanic region, AGCS names Northcott as Regional Head Financial Lines, ACE launches life science cover in continental Europe and KPMG names Phil…
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CRE Risk Management
People risk rises up the agenda as ERM finally takes root
Culture and the risk of poor communication are just the kind of risks that can easily be overlooked by risk managers as the risk agenda is relentlessly driven by external…
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CRE Insurance
Opportunity knocks in Middle East but tread carefully urges reinsurer
During the recent Multaqa conference in Qatar, Commercial Risk Europe Editor Adrian Ladbury interviewed Peter Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Catlin Re Switzerland, to find out what risk and opportunities…
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CRE Risk Management
UK public sector leaders still see budget cuts as biggest risk
Risk managers at UK public sector organisations will note a new Ipsos MORI poll that finds funding and budget cuts remain the top concern of leaders across the sector.
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Asia
Risk community in Asia organised as PARIMA is launched in Singapore
The Pan-Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association (PARIMA) was launched at the start of this month at a conference attended by over 140 people in Singapore.
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CRE Insurance
Buyers urged to consider trade credit and political risk insurance in emerging markets
Insurers and brokers are warning companies operating or investing in emerging markets to consider the economic and political risk of these often distressed territories and to invest in trade credit…
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CRE Insurance
UK employment law changes come into force
A number of changes to UK employment law, announced in December 2012, are due to take effect in April. These changes include an increase in the weekly rate of statutory…
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CRE Insurance
Political risk industry grows as threat climbs firms’ agenda
Political risk is a growing industry, with a mushrooming of security specialists, consultants and insurers entering the fray in recent years. The growth in the market reflects the overall increase…