Features – Page 10
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Sing your praises
Risk management is under attack as companies seek to cut back. Risk managers need to take every opportunity to show what they deliver, says Garry Taylor
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Not all they seem
Tony Dowding looks at how companies can prevent and deal with false and exaggerated claims
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Global analysis
Regulatory approaches to insurance vary throughout the world, even among countries that are in the same region. Nathan Skinner summaries some of the differences
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Refreshing the parts…
Nathan Skinner visits the giant Heineken brewery in Amsterdam and talks to Eric Bloem, the firm’s head of insurance
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The cost of corruption
Nathan Skinner reviews anti bribery and corruption measures – and discusses just how effective they are
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The Cyprus connection
Producing fake products is a useful source of income for organised crime and terrorist groups. And Cyprus, a relatively small island in the Mediterranean, is starting to play a pivotal role. Alan Waring explains
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Just what is meant by Enterprise Risk Management?
Stephen Roberts, Eddie McLaughlin and James Maxwell describe the elements that make up best practice
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The dilemma of dissent
Unpalatable news is rarely welcome in the boardroom – and may not be believed. Nathan Skinner interviews HBOS whistleblower Paul Moore
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Communication, understanding and transparency
Economic recession and turmoil in the world’s financial markets have ensured that risk management is high on the agenda for most organisations. Klaus-Otto Bick tells Sue Copeman the reasons why risk management is paramount in his organisation and outlines his approach
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Reflecting on risk management
Felix Kloman has been described variously as the gadfly* and the guru of risk management. Some of his ideas may currently seem ‘off the wall’, not to say politically and corporately impractical, but there is a strong thread of integrity running through them which suggests that they could be pointers ...
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Managing risk in a recession
Mike Boyle looks at recessionary risks, with particular emphasis on employer’s liability personal injury claims, and considers how companies can manage them.
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Unrest and uncertainty
The world is a risky place and economic recession has not helped, says Nathan Skinner
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Dealing with economic downturn
is risk management being seen as an expendable cost? Or are the skills, tools and information at the disposal of the risk manager exactly what companies turn to?
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Picking up the pieces
Have the high profile casualties of the finance sector strengthened the case for risk management, or merely exposed its limitations? Graham Buck looks at the evidence
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Promote the risk manager!
In the wake of risk management failures in the financial sector, and in the middle of the crisis of confidence brought on by a global recession, Andrew Leslie asks how the risk manager can best fight his corner?
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Are risk models irrelevant?
They couldn’t save investment banks from extinction so what value are financial risk models? Nathan Skinner summarises the views of participants in this month’s debate
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Know your business
Identifying your suppliers and customers is crucial if you want to avoid international corruption scandals and legal penalties. Michael Short has the answers.
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Corruption risks on the rise
There is probably no more corruption in the world now than there was 30 years ago, but corruption related risks for companies have substantially increased – particularly over the last decade – warns Robert Barrington
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Policing your suppliers
With the threat of jail time, massive fines, exclusion from government contract work, and potentially ruinous damage to their reputations, companies should be putting bribery risks committed via third parties high on their risk agenda, says Neil Hodge
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It could happen to you
As companies find themselves looking outside their normal areas of operation, Heyrick Bond Gunning expands on his clients’ experience in countries where corruption and bribery loom large