CRE Journal Archive
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Demand for cyber cover up in Spain just as capacity falls and prices rise
Demand for cyber insurance is on the rise in Spain, following a spike of incidents such as ransomware attacks, and…
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Covid-19 set to extend tough EPL market
The employment practices liability (EPL) insurance market is one of the most challenging for buyers with US risks, who are…
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Bright spots in a gloomy renewal picture for Swiss buyers
Many risk managers in Switzerland are enduring the same hard market as colleagues across Europe, but the picture is by…
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Watershed moment for supply chain risk as disruption set to worsen
Mounting global supply chain disruption is likely to be the catalyst for a radical overhaul of supply chain risk management…
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Insurers losing touch with market realities, warns AMRAE
Decision-makers at insurance companies are becoming estranged from the market realities facing customers, according to French risk management association AMRAE,…
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Pandemic boosts risk management’s standing, finds Ferma survey
The Covid-19 pandemic has raised the profile of European risk and insurance management, according to a new Ferma survey. But…
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European Risk Management Awards 2021
Ferma and Commercial Risk have announced the finalists for this year’s European Risk Management Awards, with the winners to be…
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With great power comes great responsibility
AXA XL’s Future Risk Report 2021 published at the end of September confirms what we all knew – climate change,…
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Cyber rates to rise further and coverage restrictions increase on back of ransomware losses
Cyber insurers are likely to continue reducing exposures and raising rates in response to ransomware losses, according to Fitch Ratings.…
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Practical IT steps and response plans can combat ransomware crisis
Organisations must “harden” their IT environments and develop rapid incident response capabilities to counter the rising threat posed by what…
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‘Sharp’ cyber market hardening as European firms report rise in malicious attacks
Malicious cyberattacks accounted for 80% of cyber claims from Marsh’s continental European clients last year, up from 70% in 2019,…
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How to implement climate change risk management into the ERM system
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is launching a very timely practitioners guide on how to integrate climate change risk…
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Learning lessons for the risks ahead
As Airmic gets its first physical conference underway for the first time in two years, we asked Julia Graham, the…
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Risk managers encouraged to spread the risk gospel further into organisations
Airmic’s new chair Claire Combes believes risk managers will increasingly need to drive risk management skills further into their organisations…
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Spotlight falls on UK risk managers to boost resilience amid supply chain crisis
The current crunch in global supply chains and disruption to multiple UK sectors and their customers could ultimately make businesses more resilient, according to Marsh’s…
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Unprecedented times call for unprecedented professionalism
The twin challenges of Covid-19 and Brexit have seen many British risk managers in uncharted waters, but the risk profession…
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Challenges ahead as UK emerges from pandemic
David Horne, head of international, Bridge Insurance Brokers, a Brokerslink partner in the UK, discusses the current state of the…
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Practical implications of the hard market
From captives to claims, the hard market has affected the day-to-day operations of many insurance programmes, a group of Swiss…
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Changing risk landscape posing challenges for Swiss
Risks are increasing and challenges are growing for risk managers, which ultimately means risk management has an even more central…
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Risk management to the fore on both sides of the transfer divide
Stiff competition may have kept insurance premiums down for some 15 years, but now the Swiss market has seen a…