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Thinking the unthinkable – how leaders manage catastrophic risk

More and more firms are now putting low probability catastrophic risks higher on their agenda. According to the authors of a recently… More

4 July 2018

The IRM is introducing a new Certificate in Digital Risk Management to help risk managers get up to speed with the implications of new digital technologies and possible ways to manage the… More

In April this year, the IRM’s Internal Model Industry Forum (IMIF) released a report which outlined how insurance companies can factor operational risk into their insurance purchasing decisions – and many of… More

How chief risk officers help strategy and finance think and fund big. In business, risk is like cholesterol. There are good and bad strains. Just like in health news, where bad cholesterol… More

Some years ago, I did a personality test that assigns colours to your behaviours. This particular test showed the difference between how you tend to operate in ideal circumstances versus under stress.… More

Legislation looks set to come into force in 2020 which will compel the UK's largest companies to publish and justify the pay ratios between their CEOs and workers. Its introduction was first… More

Optimists were given reason to celebrate recently when reported rates of UK productivity in 2017 showed some improvement after years in the doldrums, but economists then seemingly spoiled the party by warning… More

The leading cyber threats to UK businesses last year were ransomware attacks, data breaches, supply chain threats and fake news stories, according to the 2017/18 report from the National Cyber Security Centre… More

Discussions at an IRM infrastructure special interest group meeting have highlighted hot topics for the sector, including embedding risk management across an organisation, dealing with uncertainty and differing levels of complexity, and… More

The IRM has published a guide to help risk managers navigate the newly revised ISO 31000 standard –A risk practitioner’s guide to ISO 31000: 2018. The overhaul of the standard was released at… More