All Editorial articles – Page 153
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Online onlyFoot-and-mouth: UK is “high risk” says EC
The EC has banned the export of all live animals from the UK following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth
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Online onlyFirms should embrace internal auditing
The head of a new governance and risk consultancy says internal audits are an integral part of risk management
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Online onlyUK lagging behind on Environmental Liability Directive
The UK is failing to implement the EU Environmental Liability Directive, say insurers
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Online onlyBSI blasts FERMA position paper
BSI says FERMA is wrong in urging "great caution" in the development of a risk management standard
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Airmic: Companies failing to address environmental risks
Risk managers should view environmental risks as part of their core risk activity, warns Aon
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Analysis
Class actions across Europe?
Some European countries have already seen legislative changes designed to facilitate the bringing of group actions in some cases. How do StrategicRISK Benchmarking Club correspondents view class actions and their possible impact? Sue Copeman describes the results of our latest survey
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AnalysisFace up to climate change
Companies need to face up to the realities of climate change and the risks that it poses to their long term interests. Environment and Climate Change Minister Ian Pearson, addressing a meeting of US businesses in New York on 9 May, said that a business's vulnerability to the threats of ...
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RoundtablesRetail groups
For retail groups, it appears that only a very few risks, if poorly managed, do not have the potential to bounce back and hit your organisation where it hurts, at the level of brand and reputation
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RoundtablesBRUSSELS: The key environmental risks
Research conducted by StrategicRISK in association with ACE highlights some of the issues relating to environmental liability that are taxing corporate risk professionals. In this Euro Forum discussion, our panel discussed some of the findings of that research and drew upon their own experience
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RoundtablesCrisis management
Why do a significant number of businesses still not have any formal plan for managing a crisis, or indeed for maintaining business continuity?
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Analysis
Worldcom verdict acts as warning
WorldCom chief executive Bernie Ebbers has been found guilty of $11bn worth of fraud, having failed to convince a jury that he was unaware of falsified accounts handed to him by his chief financial of
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Features
Spotting the bad apples
How do you spot a fraudulent employee? Hitesh Patel gives some guidelines
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Features
Avoiding corporate death by a thousand cuts
David Davies discusses how to stop a creeping reputation crisis
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Features
Risky Business
Michael Burling discusses the dangers posed by ineffective provisioning of user access rights and details how a secure enterprise provisioning system addresses specific risk areas highlighted by the U
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Features
Keeping it out of the courtroom
David Sharp reveals the secrets of how you can work more constructively with your information technology suppliers to avoid disputes
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Features
Not a victimless crime
Sean Holohan discusses the conflicts felt by would-be whistleblowers and the damage that can result if they fail to speak out
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Features
Old and dynamic?
Your HR department may be looking to recruit a workforce of young go-getters, but forthcoming equal treatment regulations will ban age discrimination Marian Bloodworth discusses what this means for UK
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Archive
Looking forward
Strategic Review - The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) has begun a strategic review to decide how the Institute should develop over the next five years
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Features
Opportunity knocks for risk managers
David Phillips and David Bishop say that risk managers could have a pivotal role in developing the Operating and Financial Review
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Features
Loose lips sink ships
Neil Miller looks at the challenges of internal intellectual property protection
