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A Decade of Discovery & Disruption

10th annual conference | 14 November 2019 | Inmarsat, London

What are the real risk issues for boards today? Are they pre-occupied with fighting short term tactical battles while missing some big picture Read more

Government forced to publish Brexit risk scenarios

The UK government has been forced by Members of Parliament to publish its Brexit risk assumptions code-named Operation Yellowhammer. While the government says that the assumptions are out of date because of subsequent efforts to mitigate Brexit risks, Read more

Executives in cyberattack firing line

Members of the so-called C-suite – executives such as chief risk officer, chief finance officer, and so on – were twelve times more likely to be the target of social cyberattack incidents over the last twelve months, according to Read more

Water crises becoming more common

Water crises in many parts of the world are becoming more common, according to recent research by the World Resources Institute (WRI). The impact of water crises has been ranked fourth out of all risks in terms of severity Read more

Cyber insurance underused

Businesses are finding it difficult to protect themselves against the increasingly diverse range of tactics deployed by cyber criminals and cyber insurance is underused. Recently, organisations have experienced a rise in destructive malware attacks, for instance, which are designed Read more

Businesses fail to quantify risk

While businesses manage risk in a wide variety of ways, too many are not quantifying the threats they face, according to Aon’s Global risk management survey 2019.

In a wide-ranging report of global businesses, it found that only 24 Read more

Humans and AI together

In 2021, artificial intelligence (AI) augmentation will create $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally, according to Gartner, the research analyst.

Gartner says augmented intelligence, which it defines as ”a human-centred partnership model Read more

Making the investment case for ERM

By Sam Elwell

We are seeing a growing recognition of the importance of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Businesses are increasingly deciding to carve ERM out as a standalone function. Even where ERM is not mandatory, businesses see the potential Read more