All Europe articles – Page 3
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NewsA lesson from Nike’s #MeToo moment: how sexual discrimination could impair your brand
Businesses can no longer turn a blind eye to gender discrimination and toxic culture. And if ethics don’t motivate, maybe shareholder displeasure and brand damage will
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Less than two-thirds of businesses worldwide are confident about their ability to manage risks to business growth
Confidence levels vary dramatically from 39% in the UK to 70% in Continental Europe as protectionist economic policy threatens to undermine companies’ international growth ambitions
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Traditional risk management concerns prevail in global corporations
Traditional financial and operational performance top global risk management concerns over the next 12 months, while much-publicised issues such as environment, tax and diversity lag well behind
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StrategicRISK's top 10 worst risk incidents of 2018
From Brexit uncertainties to US trade wars; the Carillion collapse to Telsa’s threat on Germany’s automotive industry, when it comes to global risk, reviewing the year that’s been can feel like revisiting a lot of bad news. But the good news? There are many risk lessons to be learnt
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Brexit: choppy waters for supply chains
However Brexit plays out, the impact on international trade is likely to be great. As forecasted border delays threaten to sink UK manufacturing, supply chain managers are acting now.
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Marsh to begin JLT integration with specialty business
The deal is still subject to the receipt of certain antitrust and financial regulatory approvals. But when that process is complete, the new business will come into effect
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Expert view: From the tangible to the intangible
Guido Benz, head of engineering and construction, at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions considers how technology is enabling more ambitious construction and engineering projects than ever before. Which in turn introduces new complexities and demand for new risk transfer solutions
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Could surety bonds have saved Carillion’s customers from millions in financial loss?
One key lesson from Carillion’s demise is that risk mitigation tools may not provide the level of protection that contractors may need but the answer may be found in surety bonds
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The future of construction is data-rich and analytics-driven
The construction industry has transformed the way in which it plans executes and finances projects – placing technology at the heart
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How Crossrail set the benchmark in construction risk management
Risk management has been central to the success of Europe’s largest infrastructure project, owing much to sustained engagement with lead insurers Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and Zurich and broker AJ Gallagher. Colin Hamling, commercial and insurance manager, (December 2009-2016) tells us more
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How predictive analytics is transforming risk management
Used correctly, predictive analytics and big data, could open the doors to profitable opportunities. But how can the risk community extrapolate the benefits?
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A basic principle most people don’t understand about risk
In this new opinion piece renowned author, blogger and retired chief audit executive, Norman Marks explains why you may have been making a fundamental error in risk management
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Ransomware could displace data theft as leading cyber risk
Ransomware attacks are becoming more targeted, with greater ransoms being sought
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Can we still have an international programme even if some of our subsidiaries want to opt out?
Zurich’s head of international sales and distribution, Fernando Danes, explains why international programmes are perfect for your business.
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Counterfeit risk far from sweet
As counterfeit risk becomes more difficult to detect, risk managers face a difficult challenge to mitigate risk. How is counterfeit risk evolving? What lessons can companies learn from the honey scandal and similar cases? And what is the best way to mitigate counterfeit risk?
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Primark and Grenfell Tower fires: are risk managers taking their eyes off the ball with fire risk?
After 10 or 15 years of declining incidence of fires, two large-scale property fires in Europe attracted widespread attention because of the enormity of the damage. This begs the question, are risk managers resting on their laurels when it comes to traditional risks, focusing too much on emerging risks?
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Only a third of insurers report digital transformation success
As an industry, insurance is lagging in the technology space
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UK small businesses targeted with 65,000 attempted cyber attacks per day
Despite the worrying figures produced by Hiscox, the insurer estimates 52% of UK small businesses have no cyber security strategy in place
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New Lloyds chief executive takes helm
John Neal has assumed the role at Lloyds this week, the firm where he originally began his career in 1985
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How to manage risk ownership to ensure accountability without operating in silos
Risk thought leader Chris Corless looks at the value of defining risk owners and whether or not it is crucial to the success of your risk programme
