RM News
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Product safety top of bill in EC-China talks
EU Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner, John Dalli, has placed product safety top of his agenda in a series of…
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QIS 5 delayed but captives have not been ignored
Captive owners will have to wait a few weeks longer than expected for the results of QIS 5 but can…
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Commission looks to beef up ELD as Hungary counts cost of toxic disaster
A recent report from the European Commission suggests that it is looking to beef up the Environmental Liability Directive [ELD]…
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Risk management on the rise
Risk managers are becoming more visible and active across their organisations and are wielding greater influence on strategic decisions, according…
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FERMA seminar & Presidents meeting-Let the people talk
FERMA held a very well attended seminar and President’s meeting in London at the end of September where most of…
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ELD to ‘bare its teeth’ in Hungarian toxic spillage
The disaster in Hungary, which has seen toxic sludge escape from a reservoir in the city of Ajka, should serve…
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German risk managers fear computer worm Stuxnet
German risk managers are alarmed over the emergence of a fresh IT threat in the form of the computer worm…
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No hard market on the horizon–Bowring Marsh
Global property and casualty rates show no sign of hardening and, barring a major loss, are expected to remain soft…
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Captives use questioned by European companies
European companies are increasingly questioning the value of running a captive as they anticipate greater capital and time costs as…
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Risk spend poured into multi-billion dollar black hole?
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, spending on risk is set to continue to rise as investors and…
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Opportunity knocks-comment
The board of FERMA and Paul Taylor of AIRMIC and Morgan Crucible in particular, deserve a pat on the back…
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Honisch heads running for DVS president
Jurand Honisch, Senior Vice President Corporate Risk Management & Insurance at Bertelsmann and a DVS board member, is being touted…
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Risk came, saw and will conquer?-Italy
The global financial crisis has hit Italian companies as hard as any others in Europe and Italian risk managers are…
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Long-term risk planning key to success says top broker
European companies should take the longer view on risk and prepare now for a hard market, warns Gilbert Van den…
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German market grapples with emerging risk as Munich proposes $20bn oil spill liability scheme
The German risk and insurance management community have welcomed calls from their outgoing president Stefan Sigulla and Torsten Jeworrek, board…
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In search of transparency-Germany
The Risk Frontiers German roundtable, sponsored by XL Insurance, was held at the end of the recent DVS conference in…
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BPP to set up risk MSc in conjunction with IRM
Dr Chris Brady of the BPP Business School in the UK has joined the IRM board and is busy creating…
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Early QIS 5 feedback suggest captives still under pressure
Initial results from QIS 5, the crucial fifth Solvency II quantitative impact study, show that solvency capital requirements for captives…
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Den Dekker hopeful on broker transparency agreement
The long awaited agreement between FERMA and BIPAR, the federation of European broking associations, to deliver guidelines for transparency and…
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FERMA demands industry solution for global programmes
FERMA has called upon the insurance industry to join their customers in a search for a single industry-wide solution to…
