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Archive Features
Tony Tarquini shares his insight into the supercharged insurance industry of tomorrow.
June 2024
Professor David Loseby proposes a review of the frameworks and skills needed to ensure resilience.
June 2024
Dr Simon Bennett writes on the importance of safety imagination in scenario planning
April 2024
Sarah Armstrong-Smith's perspectives on the perpetual principles of resilience
February 2024
Bringing AI to bear in risk management, by Martin Allen-Smith.
January 2024
On a multipolar world of economic interconnection and geopolitical fragmentation
December 2023
Nigel Brook talks COP-related developments for corporates and their insurers
December 2023
Culture wars and rapidly-widening schisms are the new reputational risks, writes Jeremy Hughes.
September 2023
As the RDS gets underway, what else is keeping reinsurers awake at night?
September 2023
We asked ChatGPT for its views on climate change, risk and the recent ban of the tool by some firms.
June 2023
Businesses have been on a steep learning curve since the start of the pandemic, reshaping staffing structures based around remote and hybrid working. Martin Allen-Smith assesses how employers are measuring, and even monitoring, productivity in the new normal
May 2023
Could what started as an energy and inflation crisis develop into a credit crisis?
March 2023
Deborah Ritchie speaks to Michael Faber about upcoming regulation in the financial services sector.
March 2023
Miller’s latest Marine Market Report looks ahead to the factors driving the market in 2023 in the context of a turbulent 2022
February 2023
A reappraisal of the risk horizon to help businesses prepare for yet more testing times to come.
January 2023
Resilience and adaptability are the lifeblood of the loss adjusting profession, Dr Mark Sweeney writes
December 2022
Martin Allen-Smith reports on the challenges facing business, and the hope for a positive long-term outcome for the planet
November 2022
Where is the UK's National Resilience Strategy? Peter Power writes.
November 2022
Nicholas Pearson examines the drop in resilience to environmental risks
July 2022
A discussion with Tokio Marine HCC about cyber risk in the transportation industry.
June 2022
John Lezemore and Derek Adamson take a look at the potential for Covid- and Long Covid-related claims due to exposure to coronavirus at work, and outline considerations for insurers as the situation develops
March 2022
The COVID-related M&A claims surge has so far failed to materialise, but an overall uptick in notifications has boosted demand for coverage, promising future claims activity and a radical shake-up of the market.
January 2022
Deborah Ritchie spoke to Andrew Carpenter and Dominic Lion about innovation in engineered timber and the potential benefits for the construction supply chain
December 2020
The wide-ranging impact of COVID-19 on well-being has the potential to lead to an increase in occupational stress claims. Barbara Goddard and Matthew Atwell examine the legal perspectives
November 2020
Uncertainty regarding import tariffs and rising costs of doing business in China, along with the disruption of COVID-19, has made many organisations question their reliance on suppliers. This has led them to begin sourcing elsewhere in Asia (in countries such as Taiwan and Vietnam) for key components and manufacturers for their products.
October 2020
WSJ coverage of banks’ money laundering activities in July of this year makes for compelling reading: BaFin (Germany’s top financial authority) saw the former CEO of Wirecard AG trustworthy and remained reluctant to detailed warnings since 2008 (Fairless et al., 2020). More often, however, it makes for depressing reading in terms of the confidence we can have in the integrity of financial institutions, especially as many banks involved are household names.
September 2020
How can businesses, especially those with an international footprint, ensure employee health, well-being and security amid the pandemic? Deborah Ritchie spoke to Harriet Brennan and Dr Mark Parrish to find out
August 2020
It is fair to say that the commercial insurance world has been rocked by the pandemic. Garon Anthony looks at just some of the issues arising out of the global COVID-19 crisis
July 2020
Employers should not assume that a recent relaxation of rules is a sign that the Health & Safety Executive plans to take a light touch on enforcement, or that the risk of prosecution is any lower, warns Sally Roff
June 2020
The recent Harvey Weinstein trial and verdict are landmarks of cultural and legal significance, Edward Henry QC argues. Those in positions of authority, as well as compliance, risk and HR professionals should heed its warning
May 2020
The Middle East has proven to be a politically volatile and unpredictable part of the world but remains a crucial region for many firms. Balancing risk and opportunity is as important now as ever, writes Martin Allen-Smith
April 2020
Despite the global sigh of relief when rain fell on Australia’s bushfires, the damage had been done, and will take time and resources to fix. Jeremy Hughes counts the cost to the economy and to the insurance industry
March 2020
As the world wakes up to the prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace, employers and insurers are reassessing their risk exposure, while legislators are focused on drawing up new rules around workplace behaviour.
February 2020
The ongoing migrant crisis poses an array of potential problems for international businesses. Addressing weak links in a supply chain – and the looming additional threat of climate change migration – may require new approaches, writes Martin Allen
January 2020
How are changes in modern working practices impacting the need for, and demands of, work area recovery in the UK? Ant Gould examines the provision of WAR and the impact of recent developments on the market and its providers
December 2019
Faced with the dual challenge of managing dig data alongside a multitude of regulatory pressures, companies are struggling to know which records to destroy, when and how. Martin Allen-Smith wades through the filing system
November 2019
As data privacy continues to be a major issue for organisations around the world, companies are being urged to prepare for another set of wide-ranging new rules emerging from the US state of California.
October 2019
One of the world’s most significant commercial hubs has recently found itself at the centre of uncharacteristic unrest. Hong Kong’s future is hard to predict, but the business impact could have global implications. Martin Allen Smith reports
September 2019
As domestic Brexit negotiations sway between intricate chess moves and matches of tiddlywinks, contingency planning for a hard Brexit is finally taking centre stage across both government and industry. Ant Gould looks at the latest plans
September 2019
While reputational risk covers an increasingly wide range, damage to corporate reputation from cyber liability has moved top of the agenda, reports Graham Buck
January 2018
Investec is disrupting premium finance – Podcast
Investec made waves in entering the premium finance market, where listening and evolving in response to brokers made a real difference.
Communicating in a crisis
Deborah Ritchie speaks to Chief Inspector Tracy Mortimer of the Specialist Operations Planning Unit in Greater Manchester Police's Civil Contingencies and Resilience Unit; Inspector Darren Spurgeon, AtHoc lead at Greater Manchester Police; and Chris Ullah, Solutions Expert at BlackBerry AtHoc, and himself a former Police Superintendent. For more information click here
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