Risk Management Analysis & Opinion
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Novel coronavirus outbreak: implications for international trade and shipping
The recent outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China has received worldwide attention and is increasingly putting a strain…
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Aviation risk managers need to consider coronavirus impact on sector
In 1996, a 32-year-old woman died of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis after flying with a US carrier from Chicago…
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In search of nirvana: How to identify, measure and manage supply chain risk
Supply chain risk has shot up the corporate agenda in recent years as the dual trends of globalisation and relentless…
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Willaert urges risk managers to embrace professionalisation
Outgoing Ferma president Jo Willaert believes the risk management community needs to rapidly professionalise and shed its association with insurance…
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Interdependency of risks a key concern for insurers across Europe
Michael Rüsch, recently appointed country manager for HDI Global in Switzerland, spoke to Commercial Risk Europe about the challenges facing…
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Challenging economic times represent opportunity for Europe’s risk managers
The European risk and insurance management community will gather in Berlin for the Ferma Forum in November, as forecasts of…
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Risk managers taking on new skills to deliver multidisciplinary role
Italians taking part in our Risk Frontiers Europe survey strongly believe they should maintain control of buying insurance for their…
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Sustainability and resilience rise to prominence in Italy
As a country that suffers drought, flood and earthquake, Italians are well used to the challenges posed by natural catastrophes.…
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Claims, global programmes and hard market top agenda as San Millán returns as Igrea president
When Daniel San Millán took over as president of Spanish risk management association Igrea for a second time in May,…
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Cyber risk management improving in Europe
CRE spoke to James Tuplin, head of international cyber at AXA XL, about some of the trends in cyber risk…
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Artificial intelligence offers big improvement in supply chain risk management
Earlier this year, Zurich Insurance announced that it had entered a strategic agreement with riskmethods GmbH, a Munich-based company that…
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Tech to drive risk prevention trend
Technology will help shift risk management emphasis onto prevention rather than transfer, Fujitsu’s chief technology officer for the Europe, Middle…
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Tackling the big risks
We spoke to Claire McDonald, country manager for the UK and Ireland at Risk Frontiers Europe sponsor HDI Global, about…
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Data key to more accurate risk analysis and pricing
The arrival of big data theoretically offers the risk and insurance management community an unprecedented opportunity to significantly improve the…
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Airmic expands offering for new world of risk
Airmic is expanding its support for members as the fast-changing risk landscape makes new demands on risk management and insurance,…
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Drones: The search for risk-based rules
The use of drones for commercial purposes is growing at a rapid rate, with the technology able to carry out…
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RIMS on the march as ISO-backed CRMP certification drives global expansion
The US-based international risk management association RIMS is continuing its international expansion drive on the back of its successful RIMS-CRMP certification, which…
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RIMS rising to the challenge
CRE speak to RIMS president Gloria Brosius about her background, the role of the society and its impressive growth, the…
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Confronting the ethical risks of new technology
The relationship between business and business ethics has always been a contentious one. Notable economists have suggested that ethics are…
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Political risk continues to climb the agenda, but where are the risk managers?
Whenever we carry out discussions with risk managers as part of our annual European Risk Frontiers survey, the inevitable first…