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    UK Summer Floods Highlight Gaps in Flood Maps

    14 December 2007

    Flood maps in the United Kingdom provide a good overview and are relatively comprehensive compared to flood maps for other countries, which tend to focus mainly on high risk areas. However, the summer 2007 floods highlighted a need for more information on urban and rural drainage, small rivers and ...

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    Motherless children

    3 December 2007

    There are perils to insuring with unrated subsidiaries regardless of whom their parent is, warns Peter Hughes

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    The carbon opportunity

    1 November 2007

    Companies are cottoning on to the opportunities in being up front about carbon use. The question is how best to measure it? Nathan Skinner reports

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    Time to re-assess balance sheet threat

    1 November 2007

    What is the risk of one of your debtors defaulting? High and rising, says Bob Lilley

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    A Research Agenda for London Flood

    31 October 2007

    More attention needs to be given to the management of flood risk, specifically the role of insurance in this process. By Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell

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    How Planning for Terrorist Attacks Worked for Hurricanes

    31 October 2007

    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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    IT in the boardroom

    1 October 2007

    If an organisation’s IT does not work, there is a real prospect that strategic objectives will not be reached. Yet how many boards spend time on IT issues? How well do they understand the IT risks they face? Two recent surveys provide some answers. Lani Bannach and Sue Copeman analyse ...

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    Risk management for the future

    1 October 2007

    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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    Partners, certainty and communication

    1 October 2007

    Interview - Colin campbell

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    Comparison shopping

    24 September 2007

    Lee Coppack looks at how the UK and US giants, Tesco and Wal-Mart are reporting risk, and how their risk management translates in the real world

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    Getting the framework right

    24 September 2007

    Alistair Smith, CRO of one of the UK's largest companies, gives his views on how to develop an effective risk management framework

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    Powering the plan`

    24 September 2007

    The recent flooding in the UK left many businesses as well as households without any electric power. David Sanderson stresses the need for back-up power solutions

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    Converting the cynical

    31 May 2007

    Having initially been cynical about the value of business continuity management, Paul Johnson explains how he became converted

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    OGC principles of risk management

    31 May 2007

    Robert Chapman summarises 12 principles that should underpin risk management

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    Lighthill Risk Network: a community of expertise

    30 March 2007

    April 2007 sees the launch of the Lighthill Risk Network, an international community that will link business and research. By Paul Wilson and Peter Taylor

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    Extreme weather and commodity prices

    30 March 2007

    Extreme weather conditions and natural or man-made disasters usually cause a blip in commodity prices. How big a shift and how long it lasts depend on many factors. By Hugh Craig and Lee Coppack

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    Back to the future

    12 March 2007

    Robert Chapman heralds a return to first principles in forthcoming revised risk management guidance.

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    Keeping IT simple

    19 December 2006

    Sean Elson spells out the pros and cons of new UK fraud legislation.

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    Contingency Costs in Fighting Terrorism

    19 December 2006

    The costs of a terrorism incident - both in terms of human suffering and monetary loss - are catastrophic. Thwarting a terrorist attack can also be disruptive and expensive for business.

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    New fraud legislation on the horizon

    12 September 2006

    The UK Fraud Bill may become law before the end of 2006. Neil Hodge discusses the implications.