Features – Page 5

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    Perspective on financial terrorism and insurance

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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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    Long arm of the US regulator

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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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    Sri Lanka in the Shadow of Terrorism

    2006-12-19T00:00:00Z

    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

    2003-09-15T00:00:00Z

    David Claridge suggests some practical...

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    Chemical Contingency

    2003-06-24T00:00:00Z

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

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    Fallout

    2003-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Implications for Western business of war in the Middle East

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    Coping With Extreme Threats

    2002-07-24T00:00:00Z

    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

    2002-04-11T00:00:00Z

    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

    2002-04-09T00:00:00Z

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

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    Ten lessons from the fuel crisis

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

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