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Features
Risk managers must guide businesses to invest in geopolitical resilience and keep expecting the unexpected
You’d be forgiven for thinking crisis levels had peaked in 2020. Yet, four years on, global volatility soars ever higher. As boards begin to invest in geopolitical resilience, Trevor Treharne asks what risk managers can do to anticipate ticking time bombs before they explode onto the headlines.
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Analysis
UK businesses must embrace technology as the regulatory burden increases
Businesses are grappling with unprecendent levels of compliance, creating significant new risks and exacerbating old ones. Here’s how to meet the challenge head on
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Opinion
The urgent need to protect UK critical infrastructure
Barry O’Connell, EMEA general manager at Trustwave, says that critical infrastructure businesses must urgently tackle cybersecurity gaps to prevent potentially catastrophic breaches
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Analysis
Spotlight on: rising ESG violations within supply chains and how to tackle them
Earlier this month, news that workers’ rights campaigners were protesting Shein’s potential FTSE listing hit headlines. Mathias Bolton, head of commerce at UNI Global Union, told the Guardian: “Shein shouldn’t be rewarded with the credibility of being listed in the City, or anywhere else, given the lack of transparency in ...
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Expert Views
Technical briefing: UK businesses unprepared for Martyn’s Law
New terrorism legislation is expected to become UK law later this year, but many businesses are significantly under-prepared for the measures, finds research by insurance broker and risk management firm, Gallagher.
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Analysis
Risk briefing: learning lessons from the Germany floods
As estimates of losses from the Germany floods hit between €2-3billion, experts examine key lessons for businesses
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Opinion
The state of GDPR, and what could be next?
Now is the time for risk managers to reflect on what GDPR has accomplished and the various challenges it is facing in the coming year, argues Martin Davies, Audit Alliance Manager, Drata.
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Analysis
Understanding supply chain vulnerabilities key as world becomes ‘riskier place’
’The risk market is changing and we need to ensure that we are with our clients from the outset,’ says chief executive of Gallagher’s crisis consultancy business
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Analysis
‘Reluctance’ among risk managers to invest in new systems
Risk managers still using spreadsheets may be unable to answer increasingly probing risk questions from the c-suite
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Features
Airmic: Asking the big questions
Airmic knows what you’re thinking – because it surveys its members throughout the year to keep a pulse on the issues that are top of mind for risk professionals. We delve into the survey results on three huge topics: geopolitics, AI and climate risk.
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Analysis
Airmic 2024: Risk managers need to brace for a political risk storm
A leading broker has said risk managers cannot afford to ignore the growing political risks which are facing the world as countries across the globe hold national elections.
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Analysis
Airmic 2024: Risk managers told AI risks need to be managed
Risk managers have been told they will need to understand the changing liability landscape as they look to the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their operations.
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Airmic 2024: Brokers and insurers must do more to help risk managers thrive says Marsh CEO
The president and CEO of Marsh has said that insurers must focus on innovation and better supporting risk managers as the risk environment becomes ever more complex.
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Airmic 2024: Data key weapon as risk manager look to face new risk challenges.
Risk managers warned that data will be key in the battle against the range of new risks faced by businesses across the world.
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Editor's Letter
SR Q2 2024: The great balancing act
Parenthood and risk management have a lot in common – both demand a superhuman ability to multitask, stay one step ahead, and keep a cool head. Every day is another challenge… but you wouldn’t change it for the world, right?
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Interviews
The optimist: Airmic’s chair urges the industry to confidently sell itself as a destination career
Six months into her tenure as Airmic chair, Angela Iannetta reflects on how the risk profession has evolved to meet the new challenges it faces. To attract the best talent, we must loudly champion a role that has never been more important.
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Case Studies
Case study: How CH Media handled a major ransomware attack
In the wake of a double extortion ransomware attack, Hannes Brunner, CH Media’s chief information security officer, shares the key lessons he learnt from the crisis
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Analysis
Risk-!n 2024: The three key pillars of a successful cybersecurity approach
Risk managers are over-relying on technology and software solutions to build cyber resilience, says Stefan Dydak, head of security consulting at Adnovum AG. The consequence? They’re overlooking critical factors such as people, processes and culture
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Analysis
Five reasons to attend this year’s FERMA Forum
StrategicRISK caught up with Gaëtan Lefevre, chairman of the FERMA Forum Committee 2024, treasurer and board member of FERMA, and group risk, insurance & ethics manager at John Cockerill Group, to get the inside scoop on plans for this year’s FERMA Forum and what risk managers can expect.
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Features
Spotlight on: M&A risks and how businesses can tackle them
Dealmaking conditions are undeniably tough and organisations must tackle ESG, cyber and people-related risks to get deals over the line