Features – Page 5

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    Brazil: a tough nut

    6 June 2008

    There's an old saying (often recounted even by Brazilians) that Brazil is the country of the future... and always will be! While in the past this would bring an ironic smile, now, perhaps things are starting to change, says Mike Watters

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    Challenges grow more sophisticated

    6 May 2008

    Scenario planning can build capacity to adapt to large-scale political shocks

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    Long arm of the US regulator

    1 April 2008

    The failure of foreign regulators to prosecute firms for carrying out corrupt business practices abroad to win new business, has led the US to step into the breach waving a big stick with which to punish firms and individuals, with the threat of massive fines and jail sentences. Neil Hodge ...

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    Talking about modelling

    1 April 2008

    The cost of homeowners’ insurance is a very sensitive subject in US coastal states, and the role that catastrophe models may play in helping underwriters determine rates is bringing them under increasing scrutiny from politicians. By Lee Coppack

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    Perspective on financial terrorism and insurance

    1 April 2008

    With thousands of properties spread across the globe, HSBC has a significant exposure to terrorism and experience of damage to its City of London offices from an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in 1993. By Peter Walker

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    EURO 2012 – risk and opportunity

    1 April 2008

    In April 2007, Uefa president Michael Platini announced that Poland and Ukraine would host the EURO 2012 football championship. How is Poland coping with the challenges?

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    Sri Lanka in the Shadow of Terrorism

    19 December 2006

    Since 1983, civil war and terrorism have, in the eyes of the international media at least, provided an ever present backdrop to Sri Lankan affairs.

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    On High Alert

    15 September 2003

    David Claridge suggests some practical...

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    Chemical Contingency

    24 June 2003

    Chemical, biological and radiological weapons are attractive to terrorists. But companies can protect and defend themselves. Gwyn Winfield writes

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    Fallout

    12 March 2003

    Implications for Western business of war in the Middle East

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    Coping With Extreme Threats

    24 July 2002

    In a submission to the UK Defence Committee in April, David Gamble looked at how the private and public sectors could contribute in the face of an extreme national threat

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    Countering Terrorism

    11 April 2002

    The events of 11 September will have far reaching consequences for the financial services industry. David La Bouchardiere reviews some of the implications and countermeasures

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    Seeking a Terrorism Insurance Solution

    9 April 2002

    News from the Federation of European Risk Management Associations and its members

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    Ten lessons from the fuel crisis

    14 June 2001

    In September, petrol shortage became as emotive an issue as having no bread or water. Peter Power reviews the lessons.