All pandemic articles – Page 10
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AnalysisWorkplace reopenings present new risks
Long COVID, differing attitudes to social distancing and reluctance to return to the workplace are among the key challenges
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AnalysisFirms failing to anticipate emerging risks
Effective risk resilience is increasingly correlated to a firm’s viability and growth potential, finds Marsh
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AnalysisAfter COVID, more future gazing required
Just half of businesses have re-identified their biggest risks in the post COVID world, according to a UK survey
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AnalysisGeneva Association urges action on pandemic backstop
Governments must take on role of insurer-of-last-resort in future pandemic risk solutions, finds thinktank
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AnalysisFrance/Austria amongst hardest hit by insolvencies
Global corporate bankruptcies are forecast to increase by 26% in 2021 as fiscal support is gradually phased out
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AnalysisCyber: Critical industries bombarded during pandemic
As firms scaled-up cloud computing during lockdown, they did not always scale up their security processes at the same rate
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AnalysisGVNW urges action on pandemic risk solution
German insurance buyers’ association calls for immediate discussion at an EU and national level
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AnalysisAsset-light economy presents new, disruptive risks
Corporations are holding more risk on their balance sheets as the value of intangible assets and potential for systemic risk grows
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AnalysisSuez backlog presents further disruption
Brexit, the pandemic and recent Suez Canal blockage have brought into question lean manufacturing philosophies
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AnalysisSocial inequality shapes political risk map
Pandemic-induced economic stress will continue to exacerbate global political risk throughout 2021, according to Marsh
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AnalysisBCI: COVID-crisis to fuel political risk
Non-occupational disease tops the list of concerns, with mental health, cyber and climate risks also high on the agenda
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AnalysisWEF: Scenario planning for Industry 4.0
The rapid pace of technological change and pandemic crisis is accelerating trends; making risk forecasting more challenging
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AnalysisStrategicRISK Q1 2021: A slice of the pie
Like so many of us, capitalism kicked off 2021 with something of an existential crisis. Is it time to call time on short-termism?
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AnalysisBCPs must explicitly address civil unrest
Civil unrest is now the main political risk exposure for companies, with COVID-19 likely to fuel further disturbances
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AnalysisOECD: Insurers need “skin in the game” on pandemics
Insurance sector needs to play more active role in future pandemic solutions, says OECD secretary-general Angel Gurría
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AnalysisKessler: Pandemic risk was ignored
Decisions-makers have “been making things up as they go along” and the “failings of public risk management are plain”, accuses SCOR CEO
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AnalysisAirmic: Roads to Repurposing rethinks corporate purpose
Are the pressures of delivering quarterly earnings at odds with longer-term challenges, such as climate change?
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AnalysisPandemic and debt to fuel political instability
Political upheaval and unrest in emerging markets will define the next two years, predicts Verisk Maplecroft
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AnalysisCOVID-19: Financial services firms seek resilience
The concept of operational resilience has grown as a result of the pandemic - global study
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AnalysisVaccine rollout to fuel recovery
By year-end, GDP will have returned to its 2019 pre-pandemic level, forecasts Atradius
