Embedding Risk Culture – Part 1

By Abhishek Paul

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about risk? Maybe something that might impact your physical, financial or emotional wellbeing. To some extent you might be right.

So what do you Read more

Expert Risk Predictions 2018 and the Risk Agenda 2025

Political risk, cybersecurity, bitcoin, BREXIT, GDPR and oil price and financial market fluctuations are among chief concerns for businesses voiced by some of the UK’s leading risk experts as they look ahead to 2018.

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FT–ICSA Boardroom Bellwether survey Winter 2017

The FT–ICSA Boardroom Bellwether is a twice-yearly survey of FTSE 350 companies that seeks to gauge the sentiment inside UK boardrooms. It canvasses the views of their company secretaries to find out how boards are responding to the challenges Read more

Setting the risk agenda

Risk managers recognise the challenges they face that are coming from increased business outsourcing, greater political uncertainty (including but not limited to Brexit) and business volatility.

The challenges of demographic and socio-economic factors, climate change, digitisation and new technology, Read more

Risk agenda 2025 in infrastructure

Project risk managers discussed thought-provoking topics at a recent Risk Agenda 2025 event held in London. Here is a summary of some of the views expressed

A lot of people do not appreciate the value that risk managers add Read more

Artificial intelligence and risk management

Artificial intelligence is going to be “a redefining event” and there needs to be a debate about its consequences on risk managers, regulation and society at large, according to a gathering over over 150 people at a recent IRM/Imperial Read more

Back to school on risk

It is time for business schools to re-evaluate and fundamentally re-calibrate their coverage of risk. While admirable progress has been achieved in recent years in terms of creating more specialised courses and degree programs, these offerings largely replicate the Read more

Marrying the upside and downsides of risk

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a corporation in possession of a good fortune is fraught with risks. The risks might be internally focused such as those related to talent and culture or be driven by external exogenous Read more