We are none of us islands

In this interconnected and increasingly digitised world, many (indeed, perhaps most) risks and uncertainties that we contend with cannot be evaluated and managed in isolation.

Common features of interconnected risks and uncertainties include multiple characteristics, causes and consequences. Such Read more

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

Bitcoin and crypto risks bubble up for 2018

Two thousand and eighteen will be the year that Bitcoin goes mainstream, according to IRM’s top picks for the major risks organisations face.

“Having had a meteoric rise in 2017 with an increase of nearly 1000% in price, Bitcoin Read more

Risk managers should focus more on complex risks

While organisations have become much better at understanding how to mitigate conventional risk,  risk managers and their enterprises should focus more on complex risks, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

“Humanity has become remarkably adept at understanding how 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

Sustainable business

“It is no longer business as usual,” Professor Mervyn King, chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance, said in a keynote presentation at the IRM’s Risk Leaders 2017 conference in London in November. Over 160 senior risk Read more