All Europe articles – Page 82
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Features
The extradition risk
Gillian Eastwood and Paul Lomas summarise the current extradition arrangements in the US and UK, assess the change in the extradition risk and outline some practical steps for managing it.
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Analysis
Current and future risks
Regulation was also cited as a huge burden, costing, according to the British Chamber of Commerce, £10bn between 1997 and 2005. However, Royal & SunAlliance's Risk Uncovered Index2 identifies the biggest future risks facing UK businesses as predominantly stemming from problems close to home.Strong competition in the market place has ...
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Changed duties and liabilities
Craig Blakemore discusses the implications of new UK company legislation.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
AIRMIC dinner speech notes
Former Secretary of Defence Michael Portillo put the value of risk management into a wider perspective when he spoke at the annual AIRMIC dinner. Portillo described the critical balance governments today have to make between fighting terrorism and preserving civil liberties. "It is all about measuring risk," he said.Portillo addressed ...
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All aboard for Nantes
The 15th annual conference of AMRAE, the French Risk Managers' Association will take place in the city of Nantes between the 24 and 26 January 2007. Andrew Leslie gets a preview from Alain Poullet, President of AMRAE's Scientific Committee.
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An adaptive approach
Do companies which fully comply with codes automatically have good governance? The answer is an emphatic No, believes Paul Forrest of BDO Stoy Hayward
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Analysis
Identity theft is predicted to soar
ID theft cost British businesses £50m in 2005, and this is set to increase by 1,300% by 2020 to £700m.
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Harmonisation produces discord
The provisions of the European Statutory Audit Directive have ruffled some feathers in the UK. Neil Hodge explains.
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Regulatory confusion fuels fraud explosion
Simple, low-cost steps that could significantly reduce fraud are not being adopted by UK business. Richard Kusnierz explains why.
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Analysis
Eastern Europe faces confusion over EU laws
Eighty per cent of companies operating in Central and Eastern European countries consider their overall awareness of EU legislation to be at a low or medium level despite the fact that 85% consider EU
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Analysis
Pan-european pensions beckon
Multinational companies could be missing an opportunity to save costs and reduce risks by continuing to operate separate pension schemes across Europe, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
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Financial Management of Large Scale Catastrophes
The OECD has launched an international network that will gather high level public officials, representatives of the private sector and academic experts with a view to exchanging information and provid
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When risk management saves lives
Lee Coppack interviews Guy Lamand, StrategicRISK Lifetime Achiever award winner and recipient of the first ever French government prize for civil defence.
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New fraud legislation on the horizon
The UK Fraud Bill may become law before the end of 2006. Neil Hodge discusses the implications.
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Economic crime still soaring
UK companies are losing billions of pounds to economic crime. Hossein Hamedani discusses the results of a recent survey.
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Analysis
German companies exposed
The largest German-owned companies have almost 20% more exposure to pensions risk than top UK and Dutch firms and over three times more than French-owned organisations, according to new research by Me
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Gas industry rocked by contaminated land case
Anna Rabin says that the High Court's decision in a landmark contaminated land case has significant implications.
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Stop workplace bullying
On 12 July the House of Lords gave judgment in the case of Majrowski v Guys & St Thomas' NHS Trust. Nick Hanning looks at the significant implications for employees and employers.
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Reassurance or no assurance?
Sean McGahan reviews recently enacted UK legislation on compensation.
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Life after SOX
Has all the aggravation, not to mention the considerable cost, incurred by many large European companies to comply with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act been worth it? Fiona Sheridan gives her view.
