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CRE Risk Management
The global conundrum–Switzerland
The Swiss risk managers all work for global companies that are understandably looking for growth in ever more remote markets around the world. They were asked what are the key…
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CRE Risk Management
Facing industry fears…Switzerland
When asked about the scariest insurable risks currently the discussion at this year’s Swiss meeting swiftly moved onto the role of insurance generally, strategy of insurers to help tackle tricky…
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CRE Risk Management
Big risks need big response–UK
The first question in this year’s Risk Frontiers survey was: ‘What are the biggest business risks faced by companies in your country currently? What keeps your main board members awake…
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CRE Risk Management
Big answers needed for big risks–UK
The first question in this year’s Risk Frontiers survey was: ‘What are the biggest business risks faced by companies in your country currently? What keeps your main board members awake…
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CRE Risk Management
Raising the bar–UK
The focus on broad business risks in most of Europe’s leading companies means that risk managers have found themselves dragged into discussions about risks that do not fall into the…
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CRE Risk Management
Ever expanding headaches–UK
One of the most noticeable responses of European companies to the recent economic downturn has been an effort to rapidly expand to emerging markets in search of alternative sources of…
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CRE Risk Management
Just missed it–UK
Supply chain risk and the insurance coverage provided for it has been in sharp focus since the catastrophic events in Japan and Thailand last year and not surprisingly was a…
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CRE Risk Management
Y2K all over again?–UK
Cyber risk is clearly a hot topic currently in risk management circles just as it is across society in Europe and worldwide. Cyber incidents keep on popping up in the…
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Association News
Ferma announces certification plans to bolster profession
Last month Ferma launched an ambitious project to plan the creation of pan-European certificates of professional competence for risk managers. A working group led by three Ferma board members, Vice…
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Europe
Joining the party–Russia
Anne-Christin Gröger, one of the Commercial Risk Europe German team, recently travelled to Moscow for the annual RusRisk conference. She took the opportunity to interview five leading Russian risk managers…
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CRE Risk Management
Russia joins the party–Russia
Anne-Christin Gröger, part of the Commercial Risk Europe's German team, recently travelled to Moscow for the annual RusRisk conference. She took the opportunity to interview five leading Russian risk managers…
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CRE Risk Management
Es Paratus–Russia
The prospects of a long-term global recession may not be so pressing in Russia as one of the so-called BRIC nations that are actually the driving forces of economic growth…
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CRE Insurance
Where is the innovation?–Russia
A big theme of this year’s Risk Frontiers survey has again been the ability of the insurance market to help meet new challenges such as supply chain and cyber risk.…
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CRE Insurance
Rules, rules, rules…Russia
As noted in the main article within this report Russian companies have now fully joined the international economy and are trading overseas as much if not more than most other…
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CRE Insurance
Cyber risks hit Russian risk agenda–Russia
Cyber risk is top of the risk agenda across Europe currently and Russia is no exception. Igor Mikhaylov, Head of Risk management at Mobile TeleSystems, confirmed that cyber risks have…
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CRE Insurance
IAIS gives verdict on systemic risk of reinsurance, calls for more supervision
A policy paper published today by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has concluded that traditional reinsurance is unlikely to cause, or amplify, systemic risk but warned that non-reinsurance…
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CRE Insurance
HDI-Gerling to get tough on bad risks
HDI-Gerling, one of Germany's large industrial insurers, has begun to individually reassess all of its clients on the basis of their track record on claims and quality of risks. Industrial…
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CRE Insurance
Stable capacity but hardening rates foreseen by insurance industry leaders
Insurance industry leaders foresee a hardening of rates, stable capacity and greater profitability for their firms over the next 12 months, according to a survey by The Geneva Association.
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CRE Risk Management
Risk and vulnerability up in UK public sector finds survey
Public services in the UK are under threat with a predicted increase in major incidents likely to be exacerbated by increased vulnerability as budgets are cut in the face of…
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CRE Insurance
Insurers split over move to single worldwide accounting standard–survey
Insurance executives seem split over the benefits of moves towards a single global accounting framework for insurers and the potential convergence of the two significant standards currently in use, according…