All COVID-19 articles
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Features
Spotlight on: global commerce risks and how to tackle them
UK exporters are facing significant threats in the aftermath of Brexit, Covid-19, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. New research highlights the risks and how organisations can manage, mitigate and transfer them
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Interviews
Airmic 2023: Julia Graham - risk managers are centre stage in a world of permacrisis
Are we in a state of polycrisis or permacrisis? Either way, it’s an interesting time to head up a risk management association. But Airmic CEO Julia Graham only sees this as an opportunity to spotlight the profession, tackling new and evolving risks with a spirit of collaboration.
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Interviews
Time to be risk leaders
As we adapt to the era of ‘perma-crisis’, the business rationale for pushing risk management up the strategic hierarchy has never been clearer
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Analysis
Insurers back pandemic research initiative
Projects could help build societal resilience and reduce the long-term costs of future risks
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Analysis
Demand for BII shoots up after COVID test cases
Insurance class to see a period of “growth and stability”, but appetite for pandemic cover remains muted
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Analysis
RIMS President applauds profession’s role during COVID
The pandemic showed the world what type of leaders risk professionals truly are, says Patrick Sterling
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Analysis
Risk managers demand shift from insurers
Traditional insurance products may not be fit for purpose in the face of evolving climate risks
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Interviews
Room for risk
Marriott’s Sharon Xu on being people-oriented, embracing change and preparing for another COVID at the hotel chain giant
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Analysis
Pandemic drives claims in digital health and wellness
The new and unique combination of risks within digital health services create a complex web of interconnected exposures - Beazley
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Webinars
Webinar: Operational risk - becoming agile
Achieving a dynamic approach to operational risk management is essential in today’s uncertain, interconnected, and increasingly volatile world
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Analysis
Russian gas cut-off would be uninsured - Fitch
The limited scope of BI insurance was highlighted when many firms were disrupted by pandemic-related restrictions
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Analysis
Insurers must ‘lean into’ systemic risk - ABI
Policyholders expect more innovative solutions from insurers after the industry’s Covid-19 BI claims response
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Analysis
Pandemic and geopolitical shocks continue to test global trade
Reshoring production and diversifying suppliers and customers may not be the silver bullet companies hope, warns Atradius
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Analysis
Identifying global supply chain chokepoints
Understanding chokepoints and disruptive hazards are becoming key to business viability - Russell Group
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Analysis
Inflation-driven underinsurance demands new approach
The rising cost of materials has been exacerbated by Brexit, the pandemic and conflict in Ukraine
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Analysis
BBC highlights the rise of the risk manager
An article by the BBC uncovers how the COVID-crisis brought risk management into the mainstream
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Analysis
Corporates facing ‘resilience fatigue’ - Beazley
Institutional burnout is a particular threat in pandemic-exposed sectors such as health, travel, education and hospitality
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Analysis
Airmic warns of COVID’s ‘looping nature’
Omicron variant demonstrates why risk professionals need to look beyond the current crisis, boost preparedness and build resilience
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Analysis
Europe enters 2022 in weakened political state
A resurgence of anti-establishment sentiment and agitation in Europe is likely, amid uneven national recoveries from the pandemic - Dragonfly
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Analysis
Ready for the Big Quit?
Why employers unable to meet workers’ post-COVID expectations are seeing staff head for the exit