RM News
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Role of risk manager, social responsibility and climate change tackled at SWERMA
Charlotte Barnekow, Chairwoman of Sweden’s risk management association, told Adrian Ladbury about the key debate at this year’s conference and…
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Run off from Solvency II?
Insurance buyers in Europe are worried that Solvency II will drive capacity out of their core industrial insurance lines. Derek…
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Bermuda market intensifies campaign for equivalence
European insurance and reinsurance buyers should support an effort by the Bermuda market to gain equivalent status under Solvency II…
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Raising the professional bar
Carolyn Williams, Head of Thought Leadership at the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), told Ben Norris, about the importance of…
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DVS to tackle emerging risks with insurance market
The apparent inability of the industrial insurance market to react to so-called emerging risks with innovative new covers was a…
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Standard terms given green light from the European Commission
E.C. guidelines on horizontal competition will allow standard policy conditions so long as they are transparent, open and non-binding.
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Claims up but cover bought down in financial lines claims broker
European financial institutions are buying less insurance or decreasing their sums insured in an effort to reduce costs, despite an…
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BSI adopts ISO 31000 and provides guidance
The British Standards Institute (BSI) has adopted the ISO 31000 Risk Management: Principles and guidelines, the international standard, into its…
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European risk managers must be ready for a data breach
Awareness of the risk and the cost of data breach is well established in the U.S. and fast growing in…
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IGREA is ready for action now board formally elected
IGREA, the association of risk and insurance managers within Spain’s largest companies that was formed last year, plans to step…
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If you don’t risk the question you’ll never find the answer-Comment
A number of readers of Commercial Risk Europe have recently commented that the newspaper seems to be dominated by insurance…
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Corporate ethics critical for true risk management
Risk experts at IRM conference agree that ethics should not be dumped in the dustbin of history. Tony Dowding reports.
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Reform of U.K. insurance contract law ‘some way off’, says Hertzell
The U.K.’s Law Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law, David Hertzell, believes that aspects of the current law that governs…
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Gauntlet thrown down to risk professionals by IRM’s Andrew Keeling
In the opening speech at this year’s Institute of Risk Management (IRM) conference in Keele, England, Andrew Keeling, the education…
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Energy risk an increasing concern to business
Energy risks are of increasing concern to business and are now rated as big a risk as health and safety,…
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FERMA gives mixed reception to partial block exemption regulation
The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has welcomed the adoption of the new European Union insurance block exemption…
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Non-executives need more risk oversight claims Moore at IRM
Further organisational crises are inevitable unless significant improvements are made to corporate culture, ethics and governance, Paul Moore, the whistleblower…
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IGREA prepares to add political role to fast-growing agenda
IGREA, the association of risk and insurance managers within Spain’s largest companies that was formed last year, plans to step…
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New law sparks risk management education boom in Poland
Demand for risk management expertise is booming in Poland, as a law passed last year to make the adoption of…
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White Rock launches PCC operation in Isle of Man
White Rock, the company owned by Aon that manages Protected Cell Company (PCC) facilities in Gibraltar, Guernsey, Luxembourg, Malta and…
