All Company Risk articles – Page 6

  • Features

    Time to clean up your cover

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    While regulations bringing in the ‘polluter pays’ principle came into force in the EU some three years ago, experts fear many companies think only ‘heavy’ industries are at risk. Just relying on your public liability policy could end in fi nancial disaster

  • Features

    Continental shift

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    The Environmental Liability Directive has been on the agenda for years, but now that it has reached all corners of Europe, multinational organisations no longer have any excuse for turning a blind eye to the consequences of their environmental actions

  • Features

    How to: Develop an eagle eye

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Nimble, observant, precise: risk management auditors have much to learn from our feathered friends. Liz Taylor urges them to do a spot of bird-watching

  • Features

    Special Report: Environmental risk

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Don’t be fooled by the EU’s new environment directive. Each member state has its own take on the new environmental accountability rules. And the onus is very much on multinational companies to get to grips with what each country is serving up – to ensure they are adequately covered across ...

  • Features

    Environmental Special Report: Going green is key

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    The Environmental Liability Directive has brought with it a new urgency to take environment risk seriously. Despite other financial pressures, companies can’t afford to let green issues slip down the priority list

  • Features

    How to: Make sure you're ready to face the judges

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    When Standard & Poor’s added risk management to its credit rating assessment, some doubted it had the credibility to properly judge the discipline. But as a good rating is vital to success, says Nathan Skinner, does your ERM do enough to impress the panel?

  • Features

    Still some way to go

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    StrategicRISK’s latest benchmarking survey indicates that, while many organisations are seeing the benefi ts from enterprise risk management, a signifi cant number still have some distance to cover before it is fi rmly embedded in their corporate culture

  • Features

    Special Report: Property Risk

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Robust property risk management practices may call for serious investment in loss protection – but the benefi ts for the corporate bottom line can often more than compensate

  • Features

    Winning treatment

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Launching a series of fi rst-hand accounts of practical risk management, Mike Florence, who led AstraZeneca’s programme, explains how the team’s strategy has breathed new life into its respiratory and infl ammatory efforts

  • Turkey, Istanbul
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    Trends in the emerging world

    2010-08-20T11:04:00Z

    Growing emerging market economies offer significant opportunities, says Eurasia Group

  • Online only

    BP fined $50.6m for blast

    2010-08-19T10:09:00Z

    Penalty stems from 2005 explosion at Texas City

  • Online only

    Mazda recalls 300,000 cars

    2010-08-18T13:49:00Z

    North American recall due to a fault with power steering

  • Guardian Datablog
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    Who is recovering fastest?

    2010-08-17T16:47:00Z

    This detailed graphic shows which economies are recovering from the recession quickest

  • Graphics

    Infographic: Bank failures since 2008

    2010-08-17T10:19:00Z

    Hundreds of US banks have failed since the credit crunch climax

  • Second Oliver Wyman/Financial Times survey
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    Emerging risk management still “ineffective”

    2010-08-12T10:31:00Z

    Oliver Wyman research finds most boards receive emerging risk data infrequently

  • Interviews

    Social networking pervades the workplace

    2010-08-11T18:22:00Z

    Over half of UK CEOs have a Facebook page

  • The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts
    Interviews

    Infographic: Top carbon emitters

    2010-08-09T17:26:00Z

    Graphic depicts the top 20 worst offending countries

  • Interviews

    Lessons from the banking crisis

    2010-08-09T10:35:00Z

    A case study examining what went wrong at Royal Bank of Scotland

  • Dr Nikolaus von Bomhard
    Interviews

    Munich Re posts €1.2bn profit

    2010-08-05T10:53:00Z

    Maintains its "ambitious" profit target of over €2bn for 2010

  • BP Gulf oil leak
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    Gulf leak is worst ever

    2010-08-03T09:46:00Z

    Officials confirmed that BP’s Gulf oil spill is the world’s worst accidental leak