Risk Management
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Swiss risk managers reject contract law
Swiss risk managers are unhappy about a total revision of their Insurance Contract Law and hope that certain changes will…
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Everyday risk and black swans share platform at Sirm meeting
Over 150 risk managers, brokers and insurers gathered at Sirm’s annual meeting in November discussed how to deal with everyday…
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Financial risks top list in Poland where risk management standards are set for uplift
Polish risk managers are worried about the economic crisis and the financial risks involved for their companies as credit risk…
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Facing up to the future-comment
The four stories on the front page of this month’s issue of Commercial Risk Europe neatly sum up the kind…
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Conference hears call for highest level involvement
The Institute of Risk Management’s (IRM) 2012 Risk Leaders’ Conference took place on November 20 in London with a focus…
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Polish terrorist plot highlights threat of ‘black swans’ says expert
The Polish risk management association Polrisk had just started its annual meeting in Warsaw last month when news broke that…
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Underused captives likely to rise in Poland
Captives are still playing a minor role in Polish corporate insurance, but this may change soon, according to Radoslaw Ziomko,…
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Ferma says no to shared EU environmental liability fund
Ferma has come out strongly against the creation of a European fund to cover environmental liability losses that is currently…
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Supply chain cover not up to scratch finds Airmic study
Risk and insurance managers are not buying coverage that protects companies against supply chain disruption beyond standard property and business…
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Regulation creating ‘dramatic uncertainty’ – AMRAE
Regulatory changes are creating a dramatic state of uncertainty for companies, according to a leading risk manager at an event…
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European companies fear rise in business travel risk and non-compliant cover
Over half of European companies fear that business travel risk will increase over the next five years, with one quarter…
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Greimel to stand down at DVS
There will be wide-ranging changes to the leadership and management of the German Risk Managers' Association Deutscher Versicherungs-Schutzverband (DVS) next…
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Ferma survey suggests lack of ERM to meet cyber threats
Information security and privacy is a growing concern for the vast majority of European companies yet less than half have…
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New risks, new transfer conundrums for Spanish buyers – Igrea
The need for Spanish companies to understand and get to grips with risks in new markets whilst at the same…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…