GRM Partner Content
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An innovative approach to innovation–comment
Innovation. It is what we hear about all the time. Risk managers demand it, insurers and brokers claim they are…
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Emerging markets: a challenge for global programme providers–Petra Riga, Zurich
Growing international investment in emerging markets means more multinationals are looking for comprehensive insurance programmes to cover all their global…
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Networks: the big broker alternative–comment
Big is best when it comes to global programmes, it seems. Consolidation in the market has meant fewer but bigger…
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Questions of compliance–Michael Salzmann and Peter J. Schlumpf of HDI-Gerling Global Network
Nowadays, national borders are no obstacle to the flow of goods and capital compared with ten or 20 years ago.…
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Time for action over excess covers–comment
It's great to hear that the European Captive Insurance and Reinsurance Owners' Association (ECIROA) campaign to persuade the IAIS to…
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The issuance issue–comment
Finally, someone has taken a hard line on policy issuance. Airmic is urging insurance buyers to insist that written contracts…
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Captives and global programmes: A synergistic relationship?–Ken Read, Aon Risk Solutions London
Captive insurance companies represent a well-established mechanism to provide financing for retained insurable risk and are used by many organisations…
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Time to unite for IAIS campaign–comment
Two years ago at the European Captive Forum, the Luxembourg conference heard an impassioned speech from Günter Dröse, chairman of…
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How a broker can help you make the right impression–Sue Taylor & Jeremy Dutton, Miller
Identifying and compiling the information that underwriters request for a global programme is a complicated and unpredictable task. Sue Taylor…
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Providing efficient claims handling within a global insurance programme–Steve Eckhardt & Catherine Shaw, AIG
Although only one of the many elements in designing a global insurance programme, decisions relating to where, and how, the…
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Tread carefully with IPT–Mike Stalley, FiscalReps
As demand for greater global knowledge and compliant global insurance programmes grows, the landscape continues to evolve: incorporating emerging markets,…
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Modelling corporate risk–comment
This month's International Programme News includes three articles relating to losses and claims: one from an insurer (Allianz), one from…
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The good news and the bad–comment
As reinsurers gather this week in Monte Carlo, risk managers should keep an eye on the various pronouncements that emanate…
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Why local is best–Clive Hassett, ACE
There is a fundamental paradox in the modern commercial world. Although globalisation and multinational companies are the dominant engines of…
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Editor’s comment–The law of unintended consequences
According to Wikipedia, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used ‘as an adage or idiomatic warning that…
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Going ‘glo-cal’–Royston Ford, Cunningham Lindsey
It used to be so much easier: as businesses grew beyond their home borders and became global in their scale…
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Editor’s comment–A brace of compliance databases
Like London red buses, you wait ages for one global insurance programme regulatory database to arrive and then two turn…
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G-SIIs: issues, policies and challenges after designation–Julian Adams, PRA & Bank of England
The financial crisis underscored the disruption that individual financial institutions can cause to the wider financial system and real economy…
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Editor’s comment–Good news for buyers
With the global economy recovering from the economic crisis and developed countries starting to see growth again, businesses should begin…
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Claims in global programmes: ignorance is risk–Graeme Condie and Winfried Rommel, AGCS
Graeme Condie, international insurance solutions sales & marketing manager at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) and Winfried Rommel, head…