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Heathrow’s fire was a wake-up call – here’s what risk managers must learn
The March 2025 substation fire that grounded Heathrow Airport for more than 16 hours disrupted over 270,000 passenger journeys and exposed systemic weaknesses across the UK’s critical infrastructure. StrategicRISK speaks to seven senior experts to explore what went wrong – and how to prepare for what’s next.
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Risk tool spotlight: Can parametric insurance close the climate protection gap?
As weather events intensify, parametric insurance offers fast, flexible and data-driven payouts when they’re needed most. This alternative coverage solution could reshape how organisations and communities recover from disaster.
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Country spotlight: managing the delicate balance of risks facing Singapore
Singapore’s fast-moving economy is a model of innovation – but the city state faces intensifying risks, from cyber threats to geopolitical tensions, an ageing workforce and climate change. Can it steady its desire for transformation against the need for resilience?
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Airmic 2025: How risk managers are thinking about the threats they face
Every week, Airmic polls its members on the biggest risks facing their organisations. Six months into 2025, we take a look at what’s been keeping CROs up at night.
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BLOG: Airmic Conference 2025 Daily News Summary
Stay tuned - live reporting from the Airmic Conference this week - all in one place
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Cyber wakeup call: What risk managers must learn from the M&S, Harrods and Co-op attacks
Recent cyberattacks on three of the UK’s best-known retailers exposed critical vulnerabilities in digital operations, supply chains and incident response. Here are the key lessons for retail risk professionals navigating today’s threat landscape.
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Country 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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Business urge governments across the globe to accelerate energy transition plans
New landmark report shows businesses are prepared to relocate if governments fail to prioritise energy transition plans. Here’s what risk managers need to know
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Risk-!n: everything risk managers need to know about ISO 31000 and why it matters to resilience
Ahead of his session at Risk-!n, Joel Aimuemojie, global risk assurance leader, shares his views on how ISO 31000 can improve ESG outcomes, and what risk professionals will learn at the event
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Risk tool spotlight: using benefits to better manage people risk
An unhappy workforce is a dangerous workforce, as stressed employees are more prone to mistakes, ethical lapses or just moving on. But while they can’t fix a poor culture, working with HR to enhance employee benefits can signifi cantly boost wellbeing, and lower your people risk.
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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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Risk tool spotlight: How to use risk visualisations to improve data-driven decision-making
Risk visualisations are an essential tool for transforming complex data into something decision-makers can really use. But there are ways to elevate your graph game, and ways you can really devalue those visuals. We dug into the research on maximising your visualisation strategies.
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How to hire and inspire the risk leaders of the future
Today’s young talent is demanding a well-defi ned career path that is meaningful and purpose-driven. How do we convince the next generation of go-getters that risk is more strategy than spreadsheet, and could shape them into the changemakers of the future?
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Sector spotlight: How the construction industry is building the foundations for better risk management
In an industry built on layers of complexity and involving significant human risk, construction risk management needs deep collaboration and planning – long before the first brick is laid.
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StrategicRISK launches SR.500
StrategicRISK SR.500 is an exclusive ‘off the record’ members-only forum for a carefully selected group of the most senior risk management professionals and insurance buyers from the biggest companies across the globe.
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Country spotlight: How Latin America is digging deep on ESG risks
World leaders in the mining industry, Latin American countries must focus efforts on meeting risk management expectations surrounding safety and sustainability. Two of the region’s experts drilled down into these topics.
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Spotlight on: California wildfire risks and how to protect employees and ensure business continuity
As wildfires spread across California, Strategic Risk explores the steps risk managers can take to safeguard their employees and ensure business continuity
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Cyber crime: Global problem, Vietnamese crisis
In Vietnam, online business is thriving, but tech infrastructure is not yet fit to meet the challenge, leaving the country in an escalating battle against cyber crime. But with Chinese hackers often blamed for cyberattacks, its issues are indicative of wider tensions across the APAC region.
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Are you ready for round two? What we know about Trump’s second term so far
As Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House, risk managers are trying to predict what upheaval awaits. Expect regulatory rollbacks, a return to his controversial approach to international relations, and an ‘America First’ economic approach that may put global trade in a tailspin.
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Climate report 2024: Risk managers attitudes to climate threats revealed
When it comes to embedding climate threats into organisational risk management strategies, progress is being made. Slowly. But, as our 2024 climate change survey finds, the fight for resources continues.