Risk Management
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Corporate round-up
New cyber privacy and network protection product targets SMEs, Martin Sullivan named director and non-exec of Cooper Gay Swett &…
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Number and cost of information security breaches rise but mitigation spend falls
According to PwC's annual Global State Of Information Security Survey the number of worldwide information security breaches and their costs…
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Business-focused communicators make the best risk managers say UK experts
UK risk and insurance managers that took part in our European Risk Frontiers survey believe that business acumen and people…
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Are you a risk angel?–comment
As this issue of Commercial Risk Europe was put to bed I was also finishing off the Global Risk Frontiers…
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IRM revamps Diploma
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) has revamped its International Diploma in Risk Management to ensure students are better placed…
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Better cooperation needed between risk managers and IT on cyber risk
Collaboration between risk managers and information security officers is vital in the fight against cyber risk that is still underestimated…
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New SIRM president plans to grow membership and boost lobbying efforts
New Swiss Association of Insurance and Risk Managers (SIRM) president Sabrina Hartusch wants to increase the association's lobbying power by…
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New kid on the block aiming to develop risk management in Asia
The Pan-Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association (Parima) is the youngest of the major organisations around the world that aim…
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Risk management improvements negate argument for rate rises
German industry has invested heavily in risk management and improved its claims profile over the last 10 to 15 years…
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Risk managers need to watch for Black Swans
Risk managers should pay more attention to so-called black swans, according to Edwin Meyer, General Manager Risk and Insurance at…
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Leading DVS players urge buyers to make use of alternative risk capital
Leading German insurance buyers believe that the time has come for their colleagues to get to grips with the growing…
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Buyers market in Germany but some concern over property risks
Despite a spate of natural catastrophes to hit the German insurance industry, the country’s risk managers face a generally soft…
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Man of Steel
Edwin Meyer is General Manager Risk and Insurance at ArcelorMittal and board member of the German insurance risk managers’ association…
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Rising regulation causes higher costs and reputational damage for all: Hürlimann
Regulatory regimes around the world are increasingly inconsistent leading to higher costs for insurers and the wider business world in…
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Sell our profession or lose relevance says DVS’ Mahnke
To maintain or improve their standing and relevance, insurance risk managers need to better explain their role and why industrial…
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DVS to place itself at centre of insurance market debates
The German insurance risk managers’ association Deutscher Versicherungs-Schutzverband (DVS) wants to play a more active role in the industrial insurance…
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Airmic begins work with Reputation Institute to tackle reputational risk
Airmic is teaming up with the Reputation Institute to develop a framework for dealing with reputational risk.
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European business at threat from Icelandic ash cloud
The threat of disruption to aviation and wider business interests across Europe from the potential eruption of Icelandic volcano Bardarbunga…
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No cutbacks on health and safety urges AGERS and leading union
Spanish companies have been urged by a leading trade union to start seeing the prevention of workplace accidents as an…
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Ferma plans to bring Airmic’s ‘popular’ compliance database to members next year
Airmic this week said that its new database of international insurance regulations, Insight Risk Manager, is proving popular, with the…