Risk Management
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Cooperation needed to drive innovation and solve supply chain dilemma
As insurance and reinsurance buyers across Europe call on brokers, insurers and reinsurers to provide more innovation, and offer broader-based…
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Ferma makes formal approach for single database on global programmes
Ferma, Airmic and the London and International Insurance Brokers’ Association (LIIBA) will formally approach the insurance market this month with…
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Ferma puts full weight behind push for reinsurance law change in Brazil
Ferma has once again added to the pressure on the Brazilian insurance regulator to change its protectionist reinsurance rules, by…
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Risk managers urged to climb ladder to help tackle innovation
Risk and insurance managers must shove themselves up the corporate ladder to enable them to do more to help insurers…
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Theis urges insurers to step up Solvency II lobbying effort
The European insurance industry must step up its lobbying effort on Solvency II to seek more time to carry out…
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Confusion in supply chain risk management adding to exposures
Businesses and their suppliers are unclear where responsibility lies for risk management and due diligence, according to a global survey…
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Firms overconfident in crisis plans and must bolster capabilities, says PwC
PwC has warned that many organisations have a misplaced self confidence in their crisis management capabilities, adding that crisis management…
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‘Cyber defenders’ outnumbered against new threats conference warns
With two million new malicious websites now detected each month and a 400% rise this year in malicious software (malware)…
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Risk management appreciation grows amongst business leaders—report
A report by The Economist’s Intelligence Unit has found that long-term and strategic risk management are both climbing the agenda…
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Pressure mounts on supervisors to tackle global programmes question
Günter Dröse, President of ECIROA and Global Head of Insurance at Deutsche Bank, told attendees at Commercial Risk Europe's latest…
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Captive experts demand more detail on Solvency II despite assurance from EC
European captive owners and experts are still calling for more detail on how captives will be treated under Solvency II…
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Cyber security in freefall with many organisations behind the curve warns PwC
The cyber security industry is in freefall with most organisations a long way off successfully combating this growing threat, experts…
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Captive owners reassured by Commission ahead of Frankfurt conference
Commercial Risk Europe holds its fourth Risk Frontiers seminar for readers today, this time in Frankfurt, Germany in partnership with…
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Captives will receive simplified and proportionate treatment under Solvency II–Van Hulle
European captive owners can rest a little easier in their beds tonight as Karel van Hulle, Head of Unit, Insurance…
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No time to take a rest as Solvency II remains on track for January 2014
Solvency II seems to have become increasingly complicated and confusing as it nears completion and thus more tricky for insurers…
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Maltese association to spread risk gospel on Island
The Maltese Association of Risk Management (MARM), one of Ferma’s two newest members, needs to raise the awareness of risk…
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Social media at forefront of cyber risk shows Ferma survey
European risk managers rate damage to reputation through social media and theft of customer information as the largest cyber risks…
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Auditors do not want to step on risk managers’ toes, says ECIIA president
Internal auditors, as much as other risk professionals, are gaining stature in European companies, but they do not want to…
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Economic factors dominate Towers Watson’s latest extreme risk list
The economic risks of depression, sovereign debt default and hyperinflation top Towers Watson’s latest list of extreme risks as it…
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Risk managers best beware of market in transition says Amrae study
A study of insurance market trends by Amrae has concluded that insurers are likely to become ever more focused on…