All Communicating Risk articles – Page 9
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S&P downgrades outlook on UK economy
The rating agency said the assessment was based on the UK’s mounting debt
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Online onlyInternal displacement at record high
Conflict and natural disasters forced 26m people to flee their homes in 2008
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InterviewsRegulator fines Morgan Stanley £1.4m for risk failure
Failure meant that a trader could deliberately cover up losses of $120m
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Bank of China managers ran $485m laundering scam
Involved laundering money through Las Vegas casinos
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FeaturesPromote the risk manager!
In the wake of risk management failures in the financial sector, and in the middle of the crisis of confidence brought on by a global recession, Andrew Leslie asks how the risk manager can best fight his corner?
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FeaturesTelling it like it is
Communication can be the difference between a good and badly handled product recall, says Julia Johnson
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FeaturesAre risk models irrelevant?
They couldn’t save investment banks from extinction so what value are financial risk models? Nathan Skinner summarises the views of participants in this month’s debate
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AnalysisRansoms encourage piracy
Commercial shipping companies paying ransoms have made piracy a booming industry
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FeaturesDealing with economic downturn
is risk management being seen as an expendable cost? Or are the skills, tools and information at the disposal of the risk manager exactly what companies turn to?
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FeaturesGustaf Hamilton and Charlotte Barnekow
Perhaps the risk management profession is expected to cover too much. There should be limits set about what fits into a risk manager's job description
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WHO raises pandemic alert
Signal to all countries to immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans
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AnalysisPandemic, or not?
H1N1, or swine flu, has pandemic potential but so far it is mostly causing only mild flu symptoms
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Online onlySwine flu could hit the UK economy hard
Businesses should prepare themselves for major staff disruptions, says the Business Continuity Institute
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AIRMIC issues advice on swine flu
Business continuity plans should kick in now, says the association
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Online onlySwine flu breaks out
40 cases of human infection in the US, 26 in Mexico, 6 in Canada and 1 in Spain reported so far
