Asia Pacific
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Analysis
Risk briefing: Scenario planning lessons from the CrowdStrike Falcon outage
The CrowdStrike outage showed that risk managers need a nuanced approach to risk assessment that allows organisations to focus their resources on addressing the most critical vulnerabilities first, maximising the effectiveness of their resilience efforts.
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Opinion
Risk management lessons to learn from earthquake disasters in 2024
WTW’s Arash Nassirpour and Elide Pantoli look at the reasons behind building failures, highlighting the ongoing need for seismic risk assessments, retrofitting and improved construction codes; and the implications these have in other earthquake vulnerable cities around the world.
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Analysis
Risk briefing: Why is air turbulence getting worse - and what does it mean for aviation risk?
Recent high-profile air turbulence events highlight broader, long-term climate risks
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Opinion
The challenges for NATO and why this should matter for business
General Sir Richard Shirreff – chair of the Healix security and risk advisory board, delves into the key challenges facing NATO post-summit and their implications for the business community.
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Special Reports
Spotlight on: the risks facing the global retail sector
Many have rung the death knell for retail over the years, but the sector isn’t dying – it’s just changing. Retail risk managers have their hands full, managing disruptors like AI integration and the next generations’ consumer habits, alongside supply chain issues and loss prevention. Trevor Treharne reports.
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Analysis
C-suite must rethink its approach to cyber threats and ransomware attacks increase
Cybercriminals have evolved their tactics in 2024 to take advantage of business and technology consolidation. Businesses must respond by being more proactive about cybersecurity
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Features
Spotlight on: risk management strategies to tackle Lithium-ion battery fire threats
The growing risks from the increased use of lithium-ion batteries across the world has left employers, manufacturers, transport hubs and regulators urgently seeking solutions.
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Analysis
A global cyber protection gap is emerging - what it means for firms
An EMEA survey shows that less than a fifth of corporate information assets have cyber coverage in place. This is what businesses need to know
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Sponsored
How to tackle net-zero risks in the Asia-Pacific region
As the journey to net-zero continues apace, it is creating unique and emerging risks for organisations. Here are the key threats that risk managers need to be aware of, and why collaboration is the key to solving them
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Analysis
Risk briefing: Maritime supply chains in danger of sinking
As CEO of shipping giant Maersk says that supply chains are at breaking point, here’s how ports are responding and what risk managers can expect
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Analysis
Risk briefing: Experts predict an escalation in the US-China trade war - what it means for businesses
Risk managers must prepare for an escalation in the trade war between the US and China and the implications it would have for business operations
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Interviews
The paradox: Gentari’s group head of risk discusses the benefits of balancing risk and reward
Adrenaline-loving skydiver or level-headed strategic risk manager? Gentari’s Wan Norashikin Mohd Nasir shows it’s possible to be both, discussing risk personalities and the search for balance between risk and opportunity.
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Opinion
G20 leaders need a bold new approach to risk
Ruth Richardson, executive director of the ASRA, argues that current risk management approaches are creating a dangerous misalignment between the hazards we’re facing and the types of deep, transformative decisions that need to be made.
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Analysis
Risk briefing: how risk managers should react to the Microsoft / Crowdstrike outage
As critical infrastructure across the globe grinds to a halt, StrategicRISK speaks to risk, reputation, data and IT experts to learn what happened, what impacted organisations can do, and steps that risk managers should take to avoid similar crises in the future
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Analysis
Regulation watch: everything risk managers need to know about ASEAN’s guide to AI governance and ethics
Linklaters’ Albert Yuen considers the implications and significance of ASEAN’s guide to AI governance and ethics, and why it is for essential risk managers to understand and embrace this new reality.
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Analysis
The international order is ‘in decline’ – what it means for businesses
A political risk insurance report from WTW highlights the decline of consensus on the liberal international order, summarising it as at best, ‘lukewarm’.
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Features
Risk managers must guide businesses to invest in geopolitical resilience and keep expecting the unexpected
You’d be forgiven for thinking crisis levels had peaked in 2020. Yet, four years on, global volatility soars ever higher. As boards begin to invest in geopolitical resilience, Trevor Treharne asks what risk managers can do to anticipate ticking time bombs before they explode onto the headlines.
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Analysis
Spotlight on: rising ESG violations within supply chains and how to tackle them
Earlier this month, news that workers’ rights campaigners were protesting Shein’s potential FTSE listing hit headlines. Mathias Bolton, head of commerce at UNI Global Union, told the Guardian: “Shein shouldn’t be rewarded with the credibility of being listed in the City, or anywhere else, given the lack of transparency in ...
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Case Studies
Case study: how to safeguard your reputation when entering new markets
A good image is hard won, but easily lost. And while growing into emerging markets provides amazing opportunities, your reputational risk will grow, too. Trevor Treharne asked one senior risk leader how they safeguarded their reputation when expanding into India.
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Analysis
Understanding supply chain vulnerabilities key as world becomes ‘riskier place’
’The risk market is changing and we need to ensure that we are with our clients from the outset,’ says chief executive of Gallagher’s crisis consultancy business