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CRE Insurance
Munich Re enters partnership with Microsoft to meet cloud computing risk
Munich Re has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft to find answers to cyber risks resulting from use of commercial cloud computing services and this week warned that cyber…
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Association News
Ferma urged not to reinvent the wheel on certification as RMIA offers hand
Grant Whitehorn, President of the Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA), has urged Ferma not to reinvent the wheel as they push ahead with the creation of a pan-European certification…
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Association News
Risk managers must remove blinkers to overcome fragile systems
For far too long risk professionals have overly focused on frameworks and processes that build fragile risk management systems and do not treat the full range of risks, Lucienne Layton,…
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Association News
Tsunami of regulation on the horizon for risk professionals
Risk, governance and compliance professionals will have to deal with an ever-expanding raft of regulations as authorities look to stamp down on corruption and deal with the underlying cultural issues…
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Association News
Risk owners should be forced to stand on their own two feet
Risk professionals should stop managing the risks belonging to others in their organisation and develop crucial competencies such as listening, influencing and setting culture, said a range of experts during…
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Association News
Risk managers must shine light on regulatory group risk
Risk and compliance professionals must shed light upon, interpret and demystify international regulations when they are rolled out through multinational organisations, according to a leading expert with a track record…
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Association News
Debate hots up over merits of integrated governance, risk and compliance function
When the risk and compliance institutes of Australasia joined forces for their inaugural GRC Conference last week there was heated debate as to whether there is a growing trend, and…
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Association News
Australasian risk and compliance institutes open merger discussions
The Australasian risk and compliance institutes have entered into discussions over a potential merger, Commercial Risk Europe learned last week as the two entities joined forces for their inaugural GRC…
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Association News
Airmic unveils its model Reservation of Rights clause to end dodgy practice
Following months of discussions with the market Airmic has unveiled its long desired Reservation of Rights (RoR) model clause that it hopes will be widely adopted in commercial insurance contracts…
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CRE Insurance
Cyber security not taken seriously warns UK government secretary
Organisations are failing to treat cyber security as seriously as physical security, delegates at the Institute of Risk Management's Risk Leaders Conference heard this week.
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CRE Insurance
Insurance accounting rules finally underway, prepare for a bumpy ride
Swiss Re, the Zurich-based international reinsurance group, believes that 'significant' progress has been made on new insurance accounting standards, but warns that key details still need to be settled.
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Association News
Spanish buyers to enjoy benign renewals
Spanish companies will not face higher insurance rates for most insurance coverage in 2013, according to participants at the annual AGERS renewal day conference in Madrid.
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Africa
Risk managers need to cut through risk terminology ‘gobbledygook’
South African risk managers were warned to be careful they do not become mired in complex discussions about risk terminology and thereby fail to apply the dynamic and positive elements…
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CRE Risk Management
Risk professionals must play head chef when measuring risk appetite
Risk professionals should play the role of a chef when determining their organisation's risk appetite, Alex Hindson, Institute of Risk Management (IRM) Director and Head of Group Risk at Amlin…
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Africa
SA risk managers urged to help business rise to big challenges
South African risk managers need to ensure that true risk management principles are embedded throughout their organisations 'in each and every department' if the community is to help the nation…
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Africa
IRMSA edges closer to first big step outside of South Africa
IRMSA took further significant steps in its hoped-for expansion of the institute across the Sub Saharan region this week as it took forward discussion about the creation of its first…
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CRE Insurance
Moody’s launches credit service for risk managers in emerging markets
Credit rating agency Moody's has launched a new credit research service that it says will help risk managers and investors better understand, estimate and benchmark the fundamental credit risk of…
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CRE Insurance
Launch of new business continuity guidance standard
BSI, the UK-based business standards company, will launch a new guidance standard for business continuity management, ISO 22313, in London on December 3.
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CRE Insurance
Corporate round-up
Five additions to Blufin's broker network, Antares appoints Chris Day as PI underwriter and Neil Russell joins Argo International as Class Underwriter for property.
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International programmes – compliance and databases
Can you rely upon your insurers' database to make you compliant? And should there be a standard for international programmes? These were questions posed to a panel at the recent…
