All Political Risk articles – Page 4
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AnalysisThree emerging risks facing renewable energy companies
Risk managers working in the renewables sector must face up to the ever growing risks presented by geopolitics, climate change and cyber interruption.
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AnalysisBusiness react to the conservative general election victory
StrategicRISK explores what the conservative general election win means to UK business leaders and what new risks have emerged on the horizon
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AnalysisPlanning for Brexit - the European view
The potential impacts of Brexit for European companies could be extreme. Strategic Risk examines how businesses have been preparing and what European risk managers should do next
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AnalysisSocial unrest is the fastest growing risk for businesses
Social unrest, market crashes, tropical storms and interstate conflict should all be top of the risk register in 2020
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AnalysisWhy manufacturers need to plan for a new risk environment
Risk managers must make sure that supply chain and organisational risks do not fall by the wayside amid pressures from cyber and political threats
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AnalysisExclusive: reputation, cyber and political threats are the top three risks keeping risk managers awake at night
Airmic’s annual survey shows the threats that are most important to managers in 2019. Ahead of the release of the report, StrategicRISK caught up with deputy CEO and technical director, Julia Graham, to find out how the profession needs to adapt to deal with them
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AnalysisPolitical risk remains front and centre
From China and Trump to Brexit and Brussels, political risks continue to concern global businesses in 2019. How have companies adapted? And what are the biggest fears for the rest of the year?
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AnalysisBusinesses at risk from surge in populism and far-right terrorism
A surge in support for populist politicians and an uptick in the number of attacks by far-right terrorists have created an increasingly complex risk environment for firms, according to Aon.
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AnalysisWEF 2019: Geopolitical risks dominate today’s global risk landscape, but are we sleepwalking into a crisis?
Risk managers across Europe react to the findings of this year’s WEF Global Risks report, which warns that “our ability to collaborate on [risks] and then mitigate them is decreasing”
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AnalysisCyber risks and business interruption top risk ranking as the biggest risks to corporates
Cyber and BI risks are increasingly interlinked as ransomware attacks or accidental IT outages often result in disruption of operations and services, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, warn AGCS on the launch of its Risk Barometer 2019
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AnalysisFive risk principles all risk managers should adopt
Will a redirection of our basic principles of risk management add the value we need? Jonathan Blackhurst, head of risk management at Capita, boils it down into five key steps
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AnalysisHow corporates get derailed and what risk managers can do to ensure it doesn’t happen to them
Economic and corporate crises in our recent history have taught us that solid risk management, communicated effectively to the top, works. Yet often, it never reaches the decision makers, writes Jonathan Blackhurst, head of risk management at Capita
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InterviewsHow Patrick Smith is managing Deliveroo’s intangible risks
Much more than a food delivery service, Deliveroo serves up vast amounts of big data – and fresh new risks – daily. It relies on business resilience leader Patrick Smith to stay creative.
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AnalysisStrategicRISK Europe Q4 now live: the power is in our hands
Nobody wants to become a byword for failure to keep up. But with 2018 showing great changes in business models, everyone is under pressure to stay relevant. Be brave. Join the innovation revolution.
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AnalysisLess than two-thirds of businesses worldwide are confident about their ability to manage risks to business growth
Confidence levels vary dramatically from 39% in the UK to 70% in Continental Europe as protectionist economic policy threatens to undermine companies’ international growth ambitions
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AnalysisStrategicRISK's top 10 worst risk incidents of 2018
From Brexit uncertainties to US trade wars; the Carillion collapse to Telsa’s threat on Germany’s automotive industry, when it comes to global risk, reviewing the year that’s been can feel like revisiting a lot of bad news. But the good news? There are many risk lessons to be learnt
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AnalysisCyber-attacks ranked number one threat in Europe East Asia and the Pacific and North America
“Cyber-attacks are seen as the number one risk for doing business in markets that account for 50% of global GDP”
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AnalysisPolitical risk levels up 60% since 2017
A new survey from Willis Towers Watson (WTW) and Oxford Analytica found nearly 70% of global business leaders stated they had scaled back operations in a country as a result of political risk concerns or losses.
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Analysis13 common mistakes when building global crisis readiness programmes
Regardless of the sector, size or the geographic location, there are a number of common mistakes that organisations make when establishing global readiness programs. Control Risks senior partner, Bill Udell and associate director, Aaron Schwirian explain how you can avoid them
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AnalysisEmbrace digitalisation or risk being left behind
GVNW president Alexander Mahnke sees huge opportunities in the era of digitisation
