All Editorial articles – Page 96
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FeaturesCEO INTERVIEW: Peter Harmer, chief executive, AON UK
The downfall of AIG threw AON’s team into crisis management mode. But the broker remains confident that the turmoil will reveal new opportunities
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Features
Taking the risk out of BACS
Despite a collective multi-million fraud bill, companies still consistently fail to implement even the most basic financial safeguards. Financial payment systems in particular are left wide open to abuse and misuse, warns Harry Hornby
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InterviewsBreaking boundaries
Risk management has taken a hard knock in the last year, certainly as far as financial institutions are concerned. It is now more important than ever before that risk managers prove that they add value
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FeaturesEverything changes, nothing changes
Risk management is by no means a new idea. Andrew Leslie, deputy editor, StrategicRISK, looks back at medieval Europe to see how merchants and traders managed their risk
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AIRMIC PortfolioConcerns in current market
Risk managers are more concerned about the security of the insurance industry than rising premiums at present
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FeaturesEmerging issues
Nathan Skinner chairs a discussion on the issues that will be important for 2009 and beyond
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Features
The engine-house of modern risk management
Do internal audit and risk management connect or not? Responding to an article last year in StrategicRISK, Nicola Rimmer gives her opinion
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AnalysisEurope-wide rules on pesticide residues to strengthen food safety
New rules should improve food safety, but they may also increase waste
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Speaking to Parliament
AIRMIC is unsatisfied about the level of transparency of broker commissions
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FeaturesSolutions not problems
A four pronged approach to supply chain risk management can improve resilience and the value of the insurance programme says Jim Carruthers
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FeaturesTerror trade
Kidnappers and extortionists use violence as a means to their financial or political ends. They pose a threat to both employees and corporate reputations. Nathan Skinner talks through the problem
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AnalysisCommercial extortion
Paul Bell says proper planning is the only way of preventing extortion
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Online onlyHijacked tanker likely to pay ransom
There is no alternative to paying the £10m ransom if crewmen’s lives are to be saved, says Lord Levene
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Online onlyDarling’s VAT cut good for business
Financial services stand to gain from the 2% tax cut
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Online onlyDeloitte settles for $40m with Pennsylvania
Settlement to do with claims of negligence in connection with defunct insurer Reliance
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Online onlyCrisis increases political risks
International relations are feeling the strain of the economic crisis says the CBI’s director general
