interconnected risks

Interconnected risks becoming systemic

Large-scale interconnected risk events are becoming systemic, according to a survey of chief audit executives. Organisations must regard crisis as the new normality and update their risk frameworks accordingly.

In fact, that traditional crisis management teams are ill-equipped Read more

Macroeconomic risk tops worry list

Macroeconomic risk tops worry list of senior executives, according to Gartner research. While a similar survey in April saw the risk enter the risk rankings in fifth place, high inflation and prices pushed it into first place.

In Read more

IRM issues guidance for charities on embedding emerging risk management

The political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) context in which we live and do business is fast-moving. This creates an ever-changing risk environment for organisations, with a fluid set of emerging risks and opportunities. It is therefore Read more

IRM risk predictions 2021

While crisis management and survival were top of corporate agendas during 2020, risk managers and now looking to increase resilience and innovation, according to IRM’s Risk predictions 2021.

“Risk managers have never been so busy and pivotal to Read more

IRM’s risk predictions for 2019

Cybersecurity, BREXIT, geopolitics 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 2019.

At the start of the year, senior members of IRM were 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