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Corporate - Protecting NEDs
Law firm Halliwells has launched what it claims is the UK's first legal risk management product to identify the legal and regulatory risks faced by non-executive directors (NEDs) in the finance sectors. The first stage of Halliwells' Non-Executive Protect is a risk review. Following completion of a questionnaire, specialist lawyers ...
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Munich Re replaces chief risk officer
Charlie Shamieh, Munich Re's chief risk officer, will shortly be relinquishing his position for family reasons.
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New management reports
The British Standards Institution has published four environmental management reports aimed at industry and government. Each focuses on a topic and looks at its implications for corporate responsibility. - Focus on climate change gives a detailed insight into climate change and explains how legislative policies and tools such as taxation ...
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Global opportunities
The likelihood scenarios are computed on probabilities of trends for main risks and opportunities for 2007, and are based on mining the internet and expert analysis over the last year. They show: 1. Preventing the escalation of the Israel-Palestine/Arab issue from becoming a wider Middle-East conflict = 82% 2. Balancing ...
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People - Discrimination danger
UK employers are being urged to beware of breaching discrimination laws when recruiting and employing eastern European workers. Law firm Mace & Jones said that UK employers are increasingly looking to assess their skills as part of the recruitment process. But the firm warned these tests are only legally acceptable ...
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Corporate - Protecting NEDs
Law firm Halliwells has launched what it claims is the UK's first legal risk management product to identify the legal and regulatory risks faced by non-executive directors (NEDs) in the finance sectors. The first stage of Halliwells' Non-Executive Protect is a risk review. Following completion of a questionnaire, specialist lawyers ...
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Training - prima Risk institute for China
The PRMIA Institute has formed a partnership with the RiskChina Research Center and several university programmes in China to launch the PRMIA Institute - China. The focus of the partnership will be the provision of training programmes in China that feature leading international faculty as well as the top faculty ...
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Regulation - Policing the Policemen
A new UK House of Lords ad hoc committee formed to investigate the role of regulators has issued a call for evidence.
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Nationalism: a major issue
Risk complexity, nationalism and arbitrary regulation have emerged as significant threats to multinational corporations' balance sheets, according to the latest global analysis by Aon political risk e
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Going entrepreneurial
In a completely new venture, AIRMIC has set up a company to develop and market online risk management education products, starting with the e-learning program for small and medium sized enterprises, P
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Trading property damage risk
Gallagher Re and physical commodities exchange New York Mercantile Exchange, have agreed that NYMEX will list for trading and clear property damage risk contracts, subject to regulatory approval by th
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Risk management's contribution increasing
Risk management continues to grow in importance within local authorities according to a new survey from ALARM, the UK national forum for risk management in the public sector.
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A textbook case of what not to do
Gerald Ratner appears in the textbooks on reputation management as a horrible example of what not to do, to the extent that 'doing a Ratner' has entered business language to mean a senior executive wh
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Praise for Camden Council
Camden Council's innovative and award-winning approach to risk management was praised by Camden's audit committee when a cross party group of councillors reviewed the council's risk management strateg
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Risk Management - Diary Dates 2007
MARCH 22; RISK FEDERATION SEMINAR; The 2012 Olympics: Risk and Rewards; West Ham Football Club, London.
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The - 2007 European Risk Management Awards
The judges have deliberated - and we can now announce the shortlist for StrategicRISK's 2007 European Risk Management Awards.
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Multinational insurance proposition
This comprises a series of underwriting processes and products designed to manage, within a single transaction, the tax payment reporting and licensing obligations for customers and brokers of Zurich's multinational insurance policies. It includes a proprietary global information system that tracks applicable laws and foreign premium tax requirements for almost ...
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VAT Fraud Investigation
The Committee will consider various fraudulent schemes, including carousel fraud and missing trader fraud. VAT fraud is estimated to cost the Treasury between £2bn and £8bn a year, and scams are becoming increasingly complex to counter member states attempts to curb the practice. The fraud works by traders selling goods ...
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Current and future risks
Regulation was also cited as a huge burden, costing, according to the British Chamber of Commerce, £10bn between 1997 and 2005. However, Royal & SunAlliance's Risk Uncovered Index2 identifies the biggest future risks facing UK businesses as predominantly stemming from problems close to home. Strong competition in the market place ...
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Terrorism cover for NCBR
Catlin Insurance Company Ltd, Bermuda, has developed an insurance/reinsurance product which restricts cover to NCBR events which occur in a specific geographic area. It claims that this restriction allows provision of greater capacity at more reasonable pricing levels. The Catlin coverage can be used to supplement individual countries' national terrorism ...