Features – Page 5
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FeaturesPerspective on financial terrorism and insurance
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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FeaturesDriving an integrated approach to governance risk and compliance
If people responsible for compliance are operating within silos, there may well be areas of neglect, warns Paul Pilkington
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FeaturesBreaching the wall
While risk management must be the first line of defence in any data protection strategy, Jeremy Smith urges companies to bolster that defence with robust insurance coverage
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FeaturesNavigating the global regulatory minefield
Jonathan Pickworth introduces a survey which suggests that many companies are too complacent about regulatory risk
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FeaturesOpen source - A stealthy security risk?
Whether or not you know it, your organisation will be using open source software somewhere. Mark Tolliver explains the risks and how to control them
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FeaturesDefining the undefinable?
A strategic risk is.....what? There are many ideas, but no consensus, says Garry Honey
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FeaturesThe regulator investigates
Regulators take insider trading very seriously. Their powers to search for evidence are growing. Comply, or face disaster, say Jonathan Pickworth and Elizabeth Bremner
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Time to re-assess balance sheet threat
What is the risk of one of your debtors defaulting? High and rising, says Bob Lilley
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How Planning for Terrorist Attacks Worked for Hurricanes
Major incident training put in place by a large commercial property investor because of terrorist attacks proved its value in the face of US hurricanes. By John Smith
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Measuring the markets
Where are the best opportunities to be found among emerging markets? And what about the risks? Ian Coleman explains the thinking behind an index which balances the risks and rewards
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FeaturesBeat the cheats
Internal audit should be checking your anti-fraud controls, says John Smart
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FeaturesEPL An inevitable trend
In the US, where payouts over discrimination claims can be huge, insuring against such claims is seen as a must. Will Europe follow in US footsteps? Nathan Skinner investigates the probability.
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Risk management and talent
If people are your greatest asset, you ought to be putting a value on that asset and risk managing it. The sums at risk may turn out to be astonishingly high, says Paul Aldrich
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Risk management for the future
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is launching the world's first international diploma in risk management in October. 'As well as being the first international qualification in this area, the Diploma will also offer the most integrated approach to managing risk across a whole organisation,' says IRM chief executive Steve ...
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Global challenges of managing risk
What keeps the CEO awake at night? Paul Pilkington and Jane Woolcott discuss the findings of a recent CEO survey on key risks
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Benefits without risk?
More and more companies are outsourcing. Emily Freeman suggests how you can minimise the risks
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Regulation, risk and global strategy
The need for EU-based insurers to develop and implement an enterprise risk management strategy in response to Solvency II was one of the topics at the International Insurance Society (IIS) 43rd annual seminar in Berlin in July. Jean-Paul Louisot reports
