RM News
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CEOs back Ferma’s call for more strategic role
Risk management needs to shift up a gear to help inform strategic decision making and partner with business leaders to…
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Ferma urges risk managers to act on sustainability directives
Risk managers must now help their organisations prepare for upcoming EU regulations on sustainability reporting and environmental and human rights…
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Swerma’s Rodert promoted to group captive and insurance director
Karl-Johan Rodert, president of Swerma and the Swedish representative on Ferma’s European Captive Committee, has been promoted to captive and…
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Risk managers must embrace risk quantification
Risk managers will have to embrace quantitative techniques and modelling if they want to take on a more strategic role…
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Howden launches innovation hub with £500m capacity for new risks
Broker Howden has launched an insurance innovation hub with £500m of delegated underwriting capacity that it says will fast-track the…
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Ferma says crises demand shift to ‘fully fledged’ risk leaders
Ferma’s incoming president told Commercial Risk Europe that the increasingly volatile risk landscape demands risk managers finally become fully-fledged risk…
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New Ferma president aims to deliver on member priorities
Charlotte Hedemark took over as president of Ferma from Dirk Wegener at the federation’s seminar in Antwerp. She steps up…
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KPMG fined record £21m for Carillion audit failures
KPMG has been fined a record £21m by UK accounting regulator the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) over its audits of…
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Aventum hires first group CRO
Specialty insurance company Aventum has appointed Robert Moorehead-Lane as chief risk officer (CRO), a newly created role for the group…
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Internet giants stave off massive global DDoS attack
Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet’s biggest denial of service (DDoS) attack ever seen…
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Climate risks loom large over semi-conductor supply chains, warns Moody’s
The resilience of global supply chains is under threat from the concentration of semi-conductor manufacturing in regions highly exposed to…
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Ukraine launches platform to measure war risks and help reconstruction
Ukraine has launched a data platform with the help of Marsh to allow insurers, investors and governments to analyse war…
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Amrae forges ahead with new branches in Brittany and Hauts-de-France
French risk and insurance management association Amrae has continued its regional growth by opening new branches in Brittany and the…
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Lloyd’s models five-year extreme weather losses at $5trn
Lloyd’s said global economic losses from extreme weather events would total $5trn over a period of five years after it…
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Spanish airline reports cyberattack on credit card data
Spanish airline Air Europa has disclosed that its online payment system was hit by a cyberattack, exposing the credit card…
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Cyberattacks continue to rise, finds Hiscox survey
More than half (53%) of businesses suffered at least one cyberattack over the last 12 months – a five-point increase…
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Darim approaches 100th member
The Danish Risk and Insurance Management Association (Darim) is on the verge of a milestone. It currently has 99 members…
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European insurers warn EU over supply chain liabilities
The European insurance sector has told the European Union in no uncertain terms that insurers’ due diligence obligations should not…
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Climate-transition framework lays ground for mandatory disclosures in UK
UK-listed companies and financial sector firms will be expected to use a newly published framework to disclose “robust and credible”…
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EP extends defective products including physical and psychological harm
Two key committees of the European Parliament have given their backing to new rules extending the liability of manufacturers and…