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Lloyd’s targeted by climate campaigners
Protests outside the Lloyd’s market reflect growing pressure on the insurance industry to take action on heavy polluters
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Modern slavery risks surge in Asia manufacturing hubs
The risk is set to intensify further as the economic fallout from COVID-19 takes full hold, warns Verisk Maplecroft
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Global insurance protection gap reaches $1.24 trillion
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to reduce global macroeconomic resilience by about 20% in 2020 - Swiss Re Institute
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Nat cats cost global economy $75 billion in 1H 2020
Insurers paid out $30+ billion due to natural catastrophes in the first six months of the year
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Shipping losses at record low
Consequences of coronavirus and a sustained economic downturn could however threaten long-term safety improvement
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Cybercrime to cost global economy $6 trillion by 2021
UK, Germany and France among the countries most targeted by significant cyber attacks between 2006 and 2020 - Specops
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Europe counts cost of severe June thunderstorms
Total economic losses from severe storms in Central Europe are likely to approach or exceed $100 million - Impact Forecasting
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How insurability hinges on disaster mitigation
Global warming is just one factor provoking the rise in natural disasters. If we want to avoid ‘no coverage’ regions, we must invest in risk mitigation
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Firms unprepared for climate risks - survey
Global CEOs and CFOs feel they have a lack of control over climate risk, even as 80% feel they should be held accountable, finds FM Global
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Growth of electric cars brings host of new risks
More complex and costly repairs; new fire and cyber threats and potential recalls are among the new exposures - AGCS
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Refinitiv survey exposes lack of supply chain transparency
COVID-19 is set to have a substantial impact on the risk landscape, particularly in terms of supply chain and third-party risk
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Is blockchain the solution for broken supply chains?
Resilience of supply chains “can be improved” through the deployment of blockchain technology - World Economic Forum
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COVID-19 global supply chain disruptions continue
Organisations with a diversified supplier base are better equipped to address the effects of COVID-19 - Institute of Supply Management
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Features
COVID-19: Spotlight on security risks
Protests and unrests, strikes and fraud and scams are just some of the security risks likely to be exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic
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WTW launches COVID-19 tracking tool
Willis Towers Watson has updated its Global Peril Diagnostic modelling tool to provide up-to-date information on confirmed global COVID-19 cases alongside clients’ property portfolios.
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The lessons for risk managers from the greatest risk events of 2019
2019 was another eventful year in the risk calendar with major incidents occurring around the globe and caused both by man and nature. The risks faced by organisations continue to multiply and evolve so here we look at some of the significant events of last year and highlight the key ...
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Reflecting on five years at the helm of AMRAE
As Brigitte Bouquot enters her last six months as president of Amrae, StrategicRISK caught up with her to find out how risk management has changed in the five years she’s been in office and what she thinks lies ahead
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Vue d’expert: Les nouvelles technologies offrent une approche globale aux risk managers
Pour Bruno Mostermans, Head France, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, les programmes internationaux permettent non seulement aux risk managers d’atténuer les risques plus efficacement, mais aussi de limiter les “trous de couverture” et de traiter plus facilement les sinistres
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Expert Views
Expert view: New technologies mean that risk managers can take a truly global approach
International programmes not only allow risk managers to mitigate threats more effectively, but they also reduce gaps in coverage and make claims processing more efficient, writes Bruno Mostermans, Head France, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
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What risk managers can learn from the biggest cyber attacks of 2019
Looking back at some of the biggest data breaches in 2019 - what are some of the key learnings for businesses and the risk management community