All Strategic Risk Global articles in Nov 2012 – Page 2
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Comment
Weathering the storm
Today’s complex global economy makes the effect on businesses of violent weather events such as Superstorm Sandy more destructive, but there are ways to minimise the dangers
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Comment
‘Can you future-proof intellectual property?’
It has been sobering to watch Apple and Samsung battling over alleged patent infringements in almost every court in Europe. Two of the world’s most future-conscious enterprises have been resorting to a body of law that mostly evolved 150 years ago in the heyday of the industrial revolution, when things ...
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Interviews
Headspace: Helle Friberg
‘If you don’t challenge yourself sometimes, you don’t develop as a person’
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Comment
‘Governments have been struggling with the burgeoning pension crisis for years’
The Rolling Stones have courted notoriety and flaunted with risk in equal measure as the world’s most enduring rock and roll band.That all but one member of the group have lived to tell the tale, despite well-documented battles with substance and alcohol addiction, complex matrimonial strife, numerous run-ins with authority ...
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Features
Behavioural strategies
Emotions play a significant part in the decision-making process, according to the latest in our academic essays series
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Features
Difficult road ahead to recovery
Although Italy’s economy is not in as critical a state as analysts had anticipated, the country will have to navigate its way past various obstacles on the way to financial and social stability
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This Week's Top Risk
Swiss property boom is biggest risk for the economy: UBS
Near-zero interest rates has seen demand for Swiss property soar
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Analysis
Global condemnation over North Korean rocket launch
Pyongyang accused of contravening UN resolution after launching missile into space
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Analysis
Colombia joins OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
Latin American nation takes another step towards creating a level playing field for international business
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Analysis
HSBC to pay record €1.5bn over money laundering scandal
Sum dwarfs that set aside over allegations of drug trafficking and terrorist financing
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Analysis
Risk committees in Belarusian banks by 2013
Parliament approves legislation to require risk committees be set up and chaired by independent directors
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Analysis
New risk management program to improve mining H&S
University of Queensland team with industry players to create database of risks and control measures
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Analysis
Mid-size companies must size up to cyber challenge: ACE
A greater awareness of IT and cyber risk is needed in European companies, particularly those on the continent
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Analysis
German insurance outlook remains negative: Moody's
Macro-economic headwinds, poor profitability and challenges posed by Solvency II all weigh heavily on the sector
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Analysis
European markets fall on Monti resignation plan
Italian prime minister to resign by year’s end after Berlusconi’s People of Liberty Party withdraws support for government
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Analysis
Airmic global compliance database nearing completion
Final RfP sent out to companies with eye on March 2014 completion date
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Analysis
Starbucks’ tax ‘gift’ slammed by critics
Deal to pay HM Revenue & Customs and extra £20m across two years fails to abate public outrage
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Analysis
Rolls-Royce in bribery probe
Aerospace and defence group Rolls-Royce may face prosecution after Serious Fraud Office orders company to hand over details of Asia dealings