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AnalysisAirmic 2025: AI will demand new skills from risk managers and underwriters
Risk professionals and insurers must upskill urgently to unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence and avoid being left behind, experts told the Airmic conference.
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AnalysisCase study: using technology to eliminate spreadsheets and improve risk processes
Engineering firm Aveng Group was struggling with its enterprise risk and opportunity management, as Excel spreadsheets were leading to inefficiencies, errors and poor data visibility. Jack McCardel explains how they used Power Platform to make the process more streamlined and insightful.
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AnalysisSix mistakes risk managers are still making - and how to fix them
Two experts, one stage, zero patience for bad risk management. At Risk-!n 2025, a CRO and a professor exposed the most common mistakes – and how to fix them.
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AnalysisChallenging assumptions: how Roche and Tetra Pak are rethinking risk
At Risk-!n 2025, senior risk leaders from Roche and Tetra Pak shared how they are embedding scenario planning into core business processes, helping shift risk management from reporting to strategic action and decision-making at the highest levels.
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AnalysisRisk-!n 2025: solving risk management’s identity crisis
As the role of risk professionals evolves, so too must the way risk management is understood and integrated within the business. At a recent Risk-!n session, a panel of senior risk professionals and CROs explored how the function needed to evolve to make risk management great again.
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AnalysisRisk-!n 2025: Building business continuity from the ground up
At Risk-!n, BD’s Didier Odorico and MEO Continuity’s Maximilian Glodde explored how businesses can make resilience a strategic asset by quantifying risk exposure, building adaptive frameworks and enabling faster decision-making.
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AnalysisRisk-!n 2025: How cognitive bias distorts risk perception – and what risk managers can do about it
At Risk-!n 2025, Pierre Lauquin, risk and business continuity manager for the Swiss Government, urged risk professionals to challenge instinctive thinking and rewire how they respond to uncertainty
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AnalysisBusinesess must get cyber risk assessments right as regulatory pressure grows
Regulators across the globe are cracking down on ensuring that businesses have robust cyber assessment policies in place. Here’s what businesses need to consider
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AnalysisScenario analysis: What risk managers need to know about Trump’s tariffs
Trump’s so-called “flexibility” on tariffs — marked by delays and shifting targets — has plunged global trade into uncertainty, forcing risk managers to brace for every scenario.
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AnalysisFive actions risk managers can take now to manage nature risks
The world is experiencing a nature crisis, and a new report aims to help businesses deal with the emergency. We analyse the key takeaways for risk managers
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AnalysisAIRMIC Risk Forum 2025: Using culture to improve risk management
Risk managers must ensure that their company’s risk appetite is not only communicated to all staff but is also fully understood.
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AnalysisSpotlight on: using AI to manage supply chain risks
Generative AI promises to transform supply chains – enhancing efficiency and data quality, reducing labour costs, and much more. But over-reliance on this new tech could expose the entire chain to new weaknesses in accuracy, security and fairness.
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AnalysisWhy risk complexity is forcing risk managers to adopt new strategies
Against the backdrop of concerns that more risks are becoming insurable, Aon’s Michelle Mason discusses how risk managers - and their insurance partners - must adapt
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AnalysisRisk briefing: When to walk away from a third-party supplier
Risk managers need more sophisticated tools to evaluate third-party supplier risks, says former Paypal deputy CISO, but most importantly, they need to be able to tell a business when to walk away from a supplier that’s too exposed
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AnalysisRisk briefing: learning lessons from the US port strike
The strikes highlighted the need for risk managers to have better levels of information on the impact of developing risks across the world
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AnalysisRisk briefing: how to improve ESG risk measurement throughout the supply chain
Most companies are not prepared for climate-related risks facing supply chains in the next decade, here’s how risk managers and procurement teams can tackle this challenge
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AnalysisRegulation watch: The EEA’s first comprehensive assessment on climate risk.
The EEA’s large-scale climate risk report outlines the multiple risks, the urgent action needed – and who needs to take ownership of change. Risk managers must seize this chance to use their skills and insights to turn analysis into action, says FERMA’s Charles Low.
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AnalysisThe three greatest challenges facing risk managers today
Risk managers must develop a better understanding of risk as complexity rises, but there are three core threats that must be addressed, says Beth Thurston, CEO risk management UK at Marsh
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AnalysisWhy AI could hold the key to improving third-party supplier risk assessment
62% of businesses do not strongly believe their risk monitoring program is meeting contractual and regulatory requirements, but technology could hold the answer
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AnalysisRisk briefing: how to manage risk megatrends across trade, technology, weather and workforce.
Businesses need actionable insights and innovative tools to more quickly address megatrends and protect against critical risk and people issues
