Businesses need to adopt a robust risk mitigation strategy and perform diligent horizon scanning when adopting new technology.
Companies are protecting their supply chain by diversifying beyond China and Southeast Asia is cashing in
As new projects and construction in the renewables sector ramps up, firms need a high concentration of risk management, insurance and claims expertise to prepare for an inevitable increase in losses
The CrowdStrike outage showed that risk managers need a nuanced approach to risk assessment that allows organisations to focus their resources on addressing the most critical vulnerabilities first, maximising the effectiveness of their resilience efforts.
WTW’s Arash Nassirpour and Elide Pantoli look at the reasons behind building failures, highlighting the ongoing need for seismic risk assessments, retrofitting and improved construction codes; and the implications these have in other earthquake vulnerable cities around the world.
Recent high-profile air turbulence events highlight broader, long-term climate risks
General Sir Richard Shirreff – chair of the Healix security and risk advisory board, delves into the key challenges facing NATO post-summit and their implications for the business community.
Many have rung the death knell for retail over the years, but the sector isn’t dying – it’s just changing. Retail risk managers have their hands full, managing disruptors like AI integration and the next generations’ consumer habits, alongside supply chain issues and loss prevention. Trevor Treharne reports.
Cybercriminals have evolved their tactics in 2024 to take advantage of business and technology consolidation. Businesses must respond by being more proactive about cybersecurity
The growing risks from the increased use of lithium-ion batteries across the world has left employers, manufacturers, transport hubs and regulators urgently seeking solutions.
An EMEA survey shows that less than a fifth of corporate information assets have cyber coverage in place. This is what businesses need to know
As the journey to net-zero continues apace, it is creating unique and emerging risks for organisations. Here are the key threats that risk managers need to be aware of, and why collaboration is the key to solving them
As CEO of shipping giant Maersk says that supply chains are at breaking point, here’s how ports are responding and what risk managers can expect
Risk managers must prepare for an escalation in the trade war between the US and China and the implications it would have for business operations
Adrenaline-loving skydiver or level-headed strategic risk manager? Gentari’s Wan Norashikin Mohd Nasir shows it’s possible to be both, discussing risk personalities and the search for balance between risk and opportunity.
Ruth Richardson, executive director of the ASRA, argues that current risk management approaches are creating a dangerous misalignment between the hazards we’re facing and the types of deep, transformative decisions that need to be made.
As critical infrastructure across the globe grinds to a halt, StrategicRISK speaks to risk, reputation, data and IT experts to learn what happened, what impacted organisations can do, and steps that risk managers should take to avoid similar crises in the future
Linklaters’ Albert Yuen considers the implications and significance of ASEAN’s guide to AI governance and ethics, and why it is for essential risk managers to understand and embrace this new reality.
A political risk insurance report from WTW highlights the decline of consensus on the liberal international order, summarising it as at best, ‘lukewarm’.
You’d be forgiven for thinking crisis levels had peaked in 2020. Yet, four years on, global volatility soars ever higher. As boards begin to invest in geopolitical resilience, Trevor Treharne asks what risk managers can do to anticipate ticking time bombs before they explode onto the headlines.