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Germany’s extreme heat exposes climate adaptation funding gap
Low river levels are disrupting freight and forcing contingency measures across Germany, as ministers clash over how climate adaptation should be funded.
Heat stress: When dehydration becomes an operational risk
Rising temperatures are increasing heat exposure across ports, terminals and warehouses, including in regions where extreme heat was once unusual. TT Club says operators need to treat dehydration and heat stress as safety-critical risks rather than seasonal welfare issues.
Case study: Inside the Beacon CRM breach impacting thousands of charities
A breach at CRM provider Beacon left customers across the charity and cultural sectors assessing what data may have been taken and how to respond before the full picture was clear.
Case study: How an AI cyber test led to unsanctioned real-world actions
A routine cyber evaluation at the UK AI Security Institute resulted in autonomous agents taking unsanctioned action against real people and organisations, exposing gaps in internet controls, monitoring and test design.
Airmic 2026: Risk managers urged to focus on vulnerabilities as risks converge
Risk managers must look past heatmaps and risk registers to understand where interconnected threats could expose the business, Airmic delegates warned.
Insurance sector still scratching head over muddy emerging risk of intellectual property, cyber and general liability cross-section
Risk managers could face policy exclusions arising from ‘complicated’ emerging risk cross-section, however broker senior vice-president ringfences geopolitical challenges as the risk community’s most pressing concern in 2026
Opinion: Why climate risk must be treated like innovation
Climate risk too often lives solely in the boardroom, in strategic reports that use inaccessible language, divorced from the operational reality – but it should be embedded in business culture to empower action today
Opinion: Heatwaves are exposing a hidden balance sheet risk for power generators
Alistair Moodie, chief product officer at risk analytics platform SAMP Risk, discusses how heatwaves are impacting the power market, pinpointing that static surveys do not provide coherent enough data to support risk transfer
Strait of Hormuz disruption exposes risks far beyond oil
Renewed disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is showing how quickly a shipping crisis can spread through global energy, trade and food systems
Airmic 2026: Risk managers urged to review political violence cover as threats accelerate
Risk managers must work with peers, brokers and insurers to address gaps in political violence cover as global instability accelerates, Gallagher’s Jonathan Rae told StrategicRISK.
Case study: British Transport Police expands risk management strategy by adopting drone in a box technology
The policing service is working hard to balance the aviation risk of using drones with operational risks, especially as is it able to take advantage of legal exemptions to operate outside of current regulation, says BTP’s head of drones programme
UK businesses confident about trade credit resilience – but research results show different conclusion
A new report from broker Marsh confirms that although UK companies are optimistic about their ability to weather trade credit risks, the majority have experienced late payments, or had to write off bad debt
Employee risk is ‘definitely higher up’ corporate agendas as ‘very significant’ losses start to stack up – Zurich
The insurer’s head of commercial claims says that although employees are the ‘most important assets’ within an organisation, they are also ‘one of the points of greatest weakness’
Risk tools spotlight: Change management beyond the project plan
As transformation becomes continuous, organisations need to manage the risks created by the journey as carefully as the destination. Effective change management means understanding the human pressures that can undermine adoption, from fatigue and overload to disengagement and a lack of trust.
Lithium chokepoints put global supply chains at risk
WTW research shows how shocks across South America’s Lithium Triangle could spread through contracts, logistics networks and balance sheets without causing direct physical damage.
Case study: How Audemars Piguet prepares for the crisis it cannot predict
Audemars Piguet uses risk appetite, continuity planning and predefined crisis triggers to decide when disruption can be managed operationally and when leadership needs to step in.
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