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Machinery failure among the top risks facing Fortune 500 companies
Equipment failure remains a top risk for the world’s biggest businesses, with the potential consequences of disruption including recovery periods lasting years and even declines in revenues and earnings
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Social unrest is the fastest growing risk for businesses
Social unrest, market crashes, tropical storms and interstate conflict should all be top of the risk register in 2020
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Why business confidence is on the rise in Asia – and what it means for risk managers
Business confidence is spiking in the Asia Pacific region, but risk managers must be on their guard against cyber and technology-related risks
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Five risk trends that company directors need to watch in 2020
With corporate management under unprecented scrutiny, a new report highlights the five mega trends which will have significant risk implications for senior management in 2020 and beyond.
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Five reasons projects fail - and what risk managers need do about them
Hans Læssøe, founder of AKTUS and former risk manager at The Lego Group, examines some of the common reasons that projects fail and how risk managers can change the way they operate to add value to decision making and project delivery
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Why manufacturers need to plan for a new risk environment
Risk managers must make sure that supply chain and organisational risks do not fall by the wayside amid pressures from cyber and political threats
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Risk manager challenge - dealing with rising insurance rates
Communicating rising rates with the c-suite is tricky, say risk managers, but brokers and insurers can help
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Evolving risks mean we have to be more collaborative… especially in Hollywood
Allianz’s head of entertainment, Lauren Bailey, discusses how entertainment risk has transformed and why this means that insurers and risk managers must work even closer together at Brokerslink 2019
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“We need to find the recipe for success in the future” says Axa CEO
Thomas Buberl, CEO, Axa Group talks at Brokerslink 2019 about the biggest risks facing businesses and why we are on the verge of another golden age of insurance
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Plugging the gaps in the supply chain
International lenders are now increasingly offering supply chain finance
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Navigating through Latin America’s patchy environmental laws
Regulation is lacking in clarity and the lesson for multinationals in the increasingly sensitive mining sector is that they must take into account all stakeholders, including local communities
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Risks of operating in diverse Latin America
Latin America is a region that no ambitious multinational can ignore, particularly as trade between emerging countries is expected to account for about 40% of global trade by 2030, but there are variations in regulation that businesses need to get to grips with
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Emerging multinationals move into riskier territory
As more established markets become too saturated, companies in Asia and Latin America look to venture into emerging economies Part of a multinational risks series supported by
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MENA: the risks and opportunities of operating across dangerous borders
The terrorist attack on the Algerian In Amenas gas plant served as a reminder to multinationals investing in North Africa that the region is still not safe Part of a multinational risks series supported by
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Terror attack – a lesson to all multinationals operating in unstable MENA
An attack on the Tigantourine gas plant in Algeria led many companies, including oil and energy firm Statoil, to review their risk management procedures Part of a multinational risks series supported by
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Expert insight: managing risk in the aviation industry
Hans-Joerg Schill, managing director of Fraport’s in-house broker Airport Assekuranz Vermittlungs-GmbH, describes the huge challenges facing the aviation sector
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Sector view: Aviation
Competition may be intense and margins tight but aviation insurance coverage remains a buyers’ market. StrategicRISK looks at what the future holds for the global aviation industry
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Is there a way out of the abyss?
Political and economic analysts are sounding the death knell for the EU as well as the eurozone
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Cyber Terrorism
Experts agree that the cyber threat is growing as hackers develop novel strategies for infiltrating governments, individuals and businesses of all sizes online.