All Risk News articles – Page 5
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OpinionOpinion: How business leaders can navigate the digital age
As organisations evolve their business models to embrace digitalisation they open themselves up to new cyber risks. Matthew Worsfold, a partner in Ashurst’s Risk Advisory practice, and Rachel Sexton, the head of the Risk Advisory Practice explore how firms need to think about managing these exposures
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Expert ViewsInside BHSI’s regional blueprint
EXPERT VIEW: In 2020, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) used its business blueprint to build a Manchester-based UK national team. Here its four leaders discuss the state of UK national business and how it has become both wanted and needed – by leaning in to serve customers through their most ...
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FeaturesPlugging the risk management talent gap
Baby boomers are retiring, and with them goes their vast experience. But instead of welcoming in a new wave of ambitious young recruits, we face a skills shortage. How will the industry encourage the next generation of talent to come in and make this evolving role their own?
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Expert ViewsKeep your eyes and ears open to move the needle on risk culture
EXPERT VIEW Riskonnect’s Claire Hopper has advice on how to build a culture where everyone incorporates risk considerations into everything they do – making sure they are always looking, listening and mitigating for potential problems.
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AnalysisEmployees are the "weakest link" when it comes to cyber security - how to strengthen defences
New research shows firms are failing when it comes to training employees on cyber security. Building resilience and monitoring for emerging threats are key.
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Special ReportsSpecial report: Climate change
Climate change is already here - so what now? Learn how organisations can start meeting the challenges head on and turn risks into opportunities
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InterviewsThe historian: Dirk Wegener shares the lessons he’s learnt in over 20 years of risk management
Dirk Wegener is stepping down as president of FERMA. After more than two decades in risk management, he has seen it all. Here he reflects on the world-changing events that altered the way we think about resilience forever.
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Expert ViewsA best practice guide to developing climate resilience
EXPERT VIEW: Climate change may already be here, but we can – and must – work ahead of time to map out our exposures for the impacts still to come. International SOS’s James Wood explores how to build climate resilience, through data analysis, assigning accountability and securing investment.
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AnalysisRisk briefing: insurance industry unprepared for large scale, systemic cyber attacks
A new paper from reinsurance broker Gallagher Re explores the prospect of a large-scale, systemic cyber-attack. Here’s what businesses need to know:
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OpinionRegulation watch: everthing you need to know about raw materials legislation
In the latest in our series of FERMA updates from Brussels, head of EU affairs, Charles Low, explores the regulation tackling the critical raw materials challenge in the EU and what risk managers must know
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AnalysisWorld mental health day: how firms can manage mental health risks
Deteriorating mental health among employees poses a significant risk to business with consequences including poor productivity, high turnover, and increased absences. Here’s how employers can tackle the threats
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Special ReportsSpecial report: Risk culture
Learn how to shape a positive risk culture that leads to more proactive risk assessment and better organisational decision-making.
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OpinionHow to manage the growing risk of climate change litigation
As climate litigation risk gathers momentum, John Firth shares the steps that companies can take to identify and reduce these risks.
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InterviewsFive minutes with new IRM board member David Epstein
StrategicRISK caught up with David Epstein, a new non-executive board member at the Institute of Risk Management, to get his take on the top risks facing organisations today
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Expert ViewsHow risk and insurance managers can take control through engineering and international programmes
When international programmes and risk engineering go hand in hand, risk and insurance managers can truly take control of their exposures, say Philip Brandl and Reto Collenberg.
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Case StudiesCase study: how to overcome board resistance to integrate a risk management programme
The key to successful integration of your risk programme lies in the bonds you make at the executive level, says Darlene Halwas, a board member of Carbon Management Canada. Forming close ties, developing trust through transparency and being a source of help, means you have a voice on the board ...
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Editor's LetterSR Q3 2023: Adapt or die
As the world of risk gets increasingly complex, there is a golden opportunity to elevate the profession beyond insurance buying, to strategic, value-adding, board-level ERM. Those risk managers who fail to step up and grab it with both hands may quickly become irrelevant.
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OpinionHuman error and cybersecurity – tackling one of today’s biggest business risks
Simon McNally, identity and access management expert at Thales, explains why cybersecurity is a pressing people-related risk that must be tackled urgently
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AnalysisPoly-crisis looms so boards and risk managers must act now
New research highlights the top threats facing organisations over the year ahead. Here’s how risk managers can tackle interconnected risks and build resilience
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FeaturesEverything risk managers need to know about North Korea
North Korea’s combination of cloak-and-dagger unpredictability and positioning makes it a presence that is at best disquieting, at worst deeply alarming for risk managers in APAC and beyond.
