All Risk News articles – Page 306
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European Round-up
Risk Management is no fairly tale
Risk and insurance managers do not believe in fairy tales. This will become clear at the 11th annual congress organised by NARIM, the Dutch professional organisation of risk and insurance managers. The congress, with the theme Risk Management: fairy tale or a true story, takes place in Veldhoven in the ...
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New mutual goes live
History was made in the UK on 1 April when the first local authority insurance company established in over a century went live. After two years' hard work, and only after meeting a set of tough criteria laid down by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the London Authorities' Mutual Limited ...
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New guidance on physical interventions
BIIAB (the leading awarding body for the UK licensed retail sector) and Skills for Security (the skills and standards setting body for the security business sector) have launched a good practice guide to address the issue of physical interventions. The aim is to reduce the incidence and impact of injury ...
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Themes and highlights
Global responsibility and sustainability are the themes of this year's FERMA Risk Forum in Geneva. Highlights include the following
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AIRMIC Portfolio
London Olympics – Risk and rewards
More than 150 people came to the conference rooms at West Ham stadium in East London to hear about the vast project that is the organisation of the 2012 Olympics, and some of the risk management implications for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the host local authorities, the rail network ...
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Can pay, will pay?
Commercial insurance buyers need more information about insurers' willingness to pay claims promptly and fairly, as opposed to their financial ability to do so, according to AIRMIC technical director Paul Hopkin. As a result, AIRMIC is in the early stages of developing an index that would supplement solvency ratings. He ...
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Analysis
Still not prepared
Multinational corporations are facing increasingly diverse, complex and exotic risks, and may not have all the resources in place to manage them effectively, according to Aon's first global risk management survey.More than half of the survey's 320 respondents said they were not prepared for the risk they rated as most ...
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Still time to register
There is still time to register for the AIRMIC 2007 conference, Gaining Competitive Advantage through Risk Management, which takes place on 5 and 6 June at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in Westminster. The cost of attending is included in the subscription for AIRMIC members. The event begins with training ...
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Human capital risk most significant threat to companies
New survey lists human capital risk as being more significant than reputational, political or regulatory risks
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US Treasury sponsors pandemic crisis response
US to test ability of financial services sector to respond to pandemic crisis
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Governance is the top concern for Australasian corporates
Risk survey identifies the key risk concerns of corporate Australia and New Zealand
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Workaholic Brits suffer from urban fatigue
New research shows that stressed out city dwellers need to give themselves a break
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Government failing to tackle cross-border fraud
Counter-measures are failing to have any impact on multi-billion pound missing trader fraud
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FERMA - Broker remuneration disclosure “not entirely satisfactory”
FERMA responds to EC competition inquiry into business insurance
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Chemical pollution: clean surface water by 2015
New report calls for "toughening up" of proposed rules on improving the quality of surface water
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EC releases paper on ship dismantlement
European Commission publishes consultation paper on environmental risks associated with ship dismantling
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FSA issues annual report of incidents
Food Standard Agency issues report stressing need to report incidents of food/environmental contamination...
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Emerging risks impeding business development
Over one third of companies avoid investing in overseas markets due to political risk fears, according to report
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Govt to spend more on flood resilience measures
UK government reveals plans to set up £500,000 flood funding package to protect vulnerable homes...
