All Communicating Risk articles – Page 31
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Analysis
ICGN forms share voting committee
ICGN has formed two committees to further its aims for fairness for international shareholders.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Call to join the virtuous circle of risk
New AIRMIC chairman Alan Fleming launched his year in office with a rallying cry to risk professionals urging them to "get rid of the silo mind-set".
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Analysis
Byers calls for UK law change
The framework of company law needs both to allow and to encourage directors to take wider responsibilities into account.
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Analysis
EASD best practice guidelines
The European Association of Securities Dealers (EASD) has issued pan-European corporate governance recommendations.
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Features
Process benchmarking and sharing knowledge
Jonathan Bendit describes a system for sharing process information.
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Analysis
NAPF backs report on company law reform
On 1 August, the UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) publicly backed the "considered and measured" approach of the company law steering group.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
E-commerce risks are still not properly assessed
Many large British companies are setting up internet project teams without due regard for the risks involved, claims AIRMIC's new e-com-merce Special Interest Group (SIG).
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Analysis
UK ruling alerts ALARM
The UK House of Lords ruling on 27 July in Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon has important risk management implications for local education authorities and the public sector in general.
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Features
Post Mortem
David Gilbert identifies five common reasons for corporate failure, ranging from elementary lack of basic controls to an ostrich-like failure to face facts.
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Features
Containing a crisis
Any company can be hit by a crisis. The key to survival is managing your way out of it. And the first few hours can be vital.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Willis encouraging charities to join AIRMIC
The charity sector now has a significant body of members within AIRMIC, thanks to support from UK broker Willis.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
New AIRMIC chairman will take over at conference
For the first time in AIRMIC's history the mantle of AIRMIC chairmanship will be handed over at conference.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Sir Clive Thompson to give AIRMIC lecture
Sir Clive Thompson, chief executive of Rentokil Initial plc, will give the prestigious 2000 AIRMIC annual lecture later this year.
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Analysis
Lone workers vulnerable
Lone public sector workers often face greater risks of personal injury than people working in more obviously hazardous industries like North Sea oil.
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Analysis
Preventing fraud
A new CBI publication says corporate fraud costs businesses hundreds of millions of pounds each year, and ignoring the risk is not an option.
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Analysis
Environmental liability paper
The deadline for submissions on the European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability, adopted in February, is 1 July
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Analysis
Reductions for driver training
Fleet operators who train drivers using Liberty Motor's Skilldrive scheme can obtain fleet insurance premium cuts ranging from 5% to 15%.
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Analysis
Discount rates review
The Lord Chancellor should announce a decision this summer on the level of discount rates.
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Analysis
Recovery's a disaster
A survey by Performance Concepts, Continuity and Recovery 2000, finds that 92% of companies fail to update their disaster testing or planning after installing new systems.
