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FeaturesCountry spotlight: key risks for businesses operating in Japan - and how to manage them
The Japanese proverb ‘fall down seven times, stand up eight’ says much about a country under constant pressure to build resilience against a litany of risks. In the face of earthquakes, an aging workforce and supply chain instability, Japan approaches its challenges with creativity and fortitude.
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Deep dive: how businesses can build resilience against black swan events
Can businesses prepare for unforeseen Black Swan events, or is resilience the only viable strategy when facing an unknowable future? Observing the firms that bounced back best from previous crises could teach us a lot.
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FeaturesSector spotlight: evolving financial services threats and how leading risk managers are tackling them
Against a backdrop of bank failures and low consumer trust, the financial services industry is juggling escalating cyber threats, ever-rising regulatory scrutiny, and the need to innovate. Sara Benwell reports.
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FeaturesThe next generation: How the risk management profession needs to evolve for the future
The industry’s next generation is coming into the market, laser-focused on building careers in risk management. We asked three up-and-coming ‘ones to watch’, what changes the industry needs to make to meet the needs of an evolving risk landscape
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FeaturesSpotlight on: risk management strategies to tackle Lithium-ion battery fire threats
The growing risks from the increased use of lithium-ion batteries across the world has left employers, manufacturers, transport hubs and regulators urgently seeking solutions.
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FeaturesRisk 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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FeaturesOur state of the industry survey reveals risk managers' top concerns for 2024
Our 2024 State of the Industry survey reveals a risk profession that is evolving, with more practitioners than ever moving beyond insurance buying to focus on enterprise risk management. But with new threats emerging at a dizzying rate, the pressure is on to improve controls and communicate your value. Sara ...
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FeaturesSector spotlight: how mining companies can manage growing ESG, regulation, and talent risks
There are few industries more at the coalface of steep risk management demands than the mining sector. ESG pressures, regulatory demands, and leaching talent are creating a challenging mix of exposures for its risk managers, writes Trevor Treharne.
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FeaturesSpotlight on: risks facing the financial services sector
Financial services firms face a significant cyber insurance coverage gap, as well as growing threats related to climate, geopolitics and technology. Here’s how to tackle the risks
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FeaturesDealing with disaster: how to make sure your business is prepared for the worst
When catastrophic weather devastates businesses, insurance alone can’t – or won’t – be enough. Know your exposures and devise mitigation plans now, before it’s too late.
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FeaturesSpotlight on: the three lines of defence model
As the risk management world promotes risk optimisation over control, and coordination over siloed thinking, have we outgrown the 3LoD model? Trevor Treharne asks industry experts where it’s time for a tactical rethink
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FeaturesHow to: Cope with kidnapping
No longer reserved for movies and millionaires, kidnapping is a very real possibility for executives working and travelling in risky environments abroad. Make sure you know how to keep yourself, and your staff, safe
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FeaturesHow to: Deal with complexity
In this increasingly uncertain world, organisations need to evolve their risk management frameworks to further enhance their resilience to unexpected shocks. Here are five practical steps to do so
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FeaturesHow to learn from banks on proportionate control
Good risk management can open up opportunities. But too many controls can become costly, cumbersome, and create a false sense of security
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FeaturesUnderstanding and measuring risk appetite
Effectively measuring risk appetite and determining risk tolerance allows companies to analyse their objectives and take advantage of opportunites
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FeaturesResilience through sustainability
Businesses must shift to an embedded sustainability strategy to guarantee growth and competitive advantage in the future
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FeaturesHow to: Seize the opportunity in risk
The real market movers are those that are able to embrace risk as part of their business models and use it to their advantage. But when the stakes are high, how do you make sure you come out a winner?
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FeaturesThe human side of the risk equation
Why taking a social scientific approach to risk management can help you see into the future more effectively
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FeaturesRisk strategies with more bite
In the wake of the financial crisis, regulators are paying more attention to how businesses quantify the risk they undertake. What approaches are being taken across the profession?
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Plight of the honeybee
Pesticides, parasites, disease – the growing list of aggressors against the humble honeybee is causing the population to die out and, Emily Miller warns, the ramifi cations will be huge
