Features – Page 15
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FeaturesPolicing your suppliers
With the threat of jail time, massive fines, exclusion from government contract work, and potentially ruinous damage to their reputations, companies should be putting bribery risks committed via third parties high on their risk agenda, says Neil Hodge
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FeaturesIt could happen to you
As companies find themselves looking outside their normal areas of operation, Heyrick Bond Gunning expands on his clients’ experience in countries where corruption and bribery loom large
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FeaturesOut of the frying pan?
Using insurance to transfer a risk that you do not want to retain is fine. But you need to be sure that the insurers you are using are going to be there – solvent – should you need to call on them. Julian James explains
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FeaturesEuropean food safety
Food producers should take all reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence
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FeaturesManaging product safety recalls
Ed Mitchell and Thomas Zanner explain how to deal with recalls in the food and drink industry
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FeaturesTelling it like it is
Communication can be the difference between a good and badly handled product recall, says Julia Johnson
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FeaturesGustaf Hamilton and Charlotte Barnekow
Perhaps the risk management profession is expected to cover too much. There should be limits set about what fits into a risk manager's job description
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FeaturesRisk in a recession
Risk is following hard on the heels of the recession, warns Nathan Skinner
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FeaturesCan you dig for wealth and be green?
Extractive industries and sustainability do not go hand in hand. Or do they? We asked Total and Rio Tinto for their views
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FeaturesWhat do you know?
Managing risk information successfully has become a priority for European companies. Graham Buck asks what a risk information system needs to be effective for everyone within the organisation
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FeaturesThe cost of compliance
While businesses may greet EU proposals for new regulation with a universal groan, Andrew Williams asks – is the need for compliance actually an aid for risk managers in establishing better systems and practices?
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FeaturesRome II: New Year New rules
EU regulation Rome II should bring greater certainty over liability issues. Wendy Hopkins and Stephen Turner write
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FeaturesGetting ready for The 31000
The new ISO standard is meeting with a mixed response from risk managers, says Neil Hodge
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FeaturesTaking a united approach
Alex Kiffen reports on a recent round table discussion on how to deal with catastrophe and how to prevent it
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FeaturesAn integrated approach
Aymeric Boyer-Vidal, GDF-Suez’s director of audit and risk discusses embedding enterprise risk management and handling a crisis
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FeaturesSubsidence: A gradual catastrophe
Subsidence losses have been a hidden catastrophe for the insurance industry. UK buildings insurers have paid out a total of more than €8 billion since 1976, and the cost of claims in France since its inclusion in the Catastrophes Naturelles scheme in 1989 forced the government to increase insurance premium ...
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Converting knowledge into action
Anselm Smolka was one of the few geoscientists in the insurance sector when he joined Munich Re Group. Today he is head of Geo Risks, corporate underwriting for the group. He tells Catastrophe Risk Management about his work. By Lee Coppack
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FeaturesWhy the next big northeast hurricane will surprise
A repeat of the 1938 New England Hurricane could cause losses as large as Hurricane Katrina in 2005. By Karen Clark
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Calculating the risk of terrorism
An investment in basic research on terrorism will be paid back many times, as a better knowledge of threats will make risk calculation more of a science than an art. By Professor Alex Schmid
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FeaturesWinds of change for agricultural risks
Changing climate and commodity price trends are steering agricultural risk in a new direction. The result is a rethink of exposure, products and product design. By Thomas Heintz
