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CRE Risk Management
IRM Global Risk Management Professional Development Forum-Full Report
Following the Institute of Risk Management's Global Risk Management Professional Development Forum, held last month in Keele, Staffordshire, Commercial Risk Europe brings you full and comprehensive coverage of the event.
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CRE Risk Management
European risk managers must be ready for a data breach
Awareness of the risk and the cost of data breach is well established in the U.S. and fast growing in the U.K. Tony Dowding found that mainland European risk managers…
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Association News
IGREA is ready for action now board formally elected
IGREA, the association of risk and insurance managers within Spain’s largest companies that was formed last year, plans to step up its lobbying effort now that the group has a…
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If you don’t risk the question you’ll never find the answer-Comment
A number of readers of Commercial Risk Europe have recently commented that the newspaper seems to be dominated by insurance news rather than risk management news and, to be fair,…
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CRE Risk Management
Corporate ethics critical for true risk management
Risk experts at IRM conference agree that ethics should not be dumped in the dustbin of history. Tony Dowding reports.
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CRE Risk Management
Prepare for bigger volcanoes-Comment
Tony Dowding finds risk management in action as the IRM rapidly reorganises as Volcanic ash brings Europe’s airports to a standstill.
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Association News
Risk managers warned not to lose focus as ERM gains ground
ERM is becoming the norm in Sweden and risk managers should not have to constantly prove its value. Ben Norris reports.
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Association News
Improve communication or risk isolation, experts warn delegates
Risk managers must learn how to communicate effectively if their true value is to be realised by employers argued a communications expert at the SWERMA conference. Ben Norris reports.
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Association News
Role of risk manager, social responsibility and climate change tackled at SWERMA
Charlotte Barnekow, Chairwoman of Sweden’s risk management association, told Adrian Ladbury about the key debate at this year’s conference and plans for the group.
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CRE Insurance
Run off from Solvency II?
Insurance buyers in Europe are worried that Solvency II will drive capacity out of their core industrial insurance lines. Derek Austin found that many run-off experts believe that policyholders may…
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CRE Insurance
Bermuda market intensifies campaign for equivalence
European insurance and reinsurance buyers should support an effort by the Bermuda market to gain equivalent status under Solvency II or face tighter capacity in future. Adrian Ladbury asked the…
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CRE Insurance
Bermuda market gives tentative welcome to new solvency regime
During a series of interviews with Bermuda market leaders Commercial Risk Europe found general support for the goals of Solvency II and certainly for the equivalence push. But they also…
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CRE Risk Management
Raising the professional bar
Carolyn Williams, Head of Thought Leadership at the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), told Ben Norris, about the importance of risk management education, the IRM’s current offering and what it…
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CRE Insurance
A game of high stakes-Philippe Brahin
Philippe Brahin, Director, Head of Group Regulatory Affairs, at Swiss Re is one of the key players in an increasingly dramatic struggle to ensure that insurance regulation is not dangerously…
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CRE Insurance
Fighting fit-Gernot Klantschnig
Last year was a tough one for XL Capital as it strived to bounce back off the ropes after big losses caused by the credit crunch. But, the support of…
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CRE Insurance
Energy rates head north as lawyers prepare for post loss bonanza
Energy market insurers have reacted swiftly to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig loss in the Gulf of Mexico and buyers can expect an increasingly tough market over the year as…
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CRE Insurance
Reform of U.K. insurance contract law ‘some way off’, says Hertzell
The U.K.’s Law Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law, David Hertzell, believes that aspects of the current law that governs disclosure in the commercial insurance market favours insurers over buyers.
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CRE Risk Management
Gauntlet thrown down to risk professionals by IRM’s Andrew Keeling
In the opening speech at this year’s Institute of Risk Management (IRM) conference in Keele, England, Andrew Keeling, the education provider’s Chairman, spoke of the growing challenge of managing risk…
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CRE Insurance
Torus swoops on Glacier subsidiary as deal flow steps up
Property casualty insurer and reinsurer Torus has acquired Glacier Insurance AG, a subsidiary of the Glacier group, subject to regulatory approval.
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CRE Insurance
Energy risk an increasing concern to business
Energy risks are of increasing concern to business and are now rated as big a risk as health and safety, according to energy supplier npower’s Business Energy Index, an annual…