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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… More

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… More

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… More

The day of reckoning arrived for banks, brokers and asset managers this month as Mifid II finally came into force on January 3, 2018. The Financial Instruments Directive II (Mifid II) – a… More

The highly disruptive world in which we live means that the need for organisations to be able to respond quickly and effectively to rapidly emerging risks or sudden crises has never been… More

The first flurry of predictions for 2018 are beginning to drift in. While technology disruption, natural disasters and cyber risk are all near the top of most lists published so far, risk… More

Several elections may have been influenced by so-called fake news disseminated over social media over the past 18 months. They include elections in the UK, the United States, France, Germany, India, Kenya… More

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… More

“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… More