All Weekly Email Alert articles – Page 29

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    Corporate manslaughter fines could run into millions

    2009-11-09T15:10:00Z

    Fines range upwards from £500,000, according to draft rules on the corporate manslaughter offence

  • Interviews

    US economy sheds 190,000 more jobs

    2009-11-09T09:56:00Z

    The unemployment rate hit 10.2% in the US last month, according to the US Department of Labour

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    Ferma 2009

    2009-11-08T16:42:00Z

    A look back at the last Ferma conference two years ago in the Czech Republic

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    Regulator fines UBS £8m

    2009-11-05T17:24:00Z

    Whistleblower reveals unauthorised trading and risk control failures

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    Trade cover increased on 13,000 UK firms

    2009-11-04T13:54:00Z

    Could boost £1bn of extra trade, said Atradius

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    RMS models black swan

    2009-11-04T11:00:00Z

    A Manhattan asteroid strike would cost over $1 trillion, said the risk modeller

  • Special Reports

    ERM Question Time pictures

    2009-11-04T09:40:00Z

    Shots from the latest StrategicRISK Question Time event

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    Lloyd’s and NATO highlight biggest risks

    2009-11-04T09:20:00Z

    Piracy, cyber security and climate change are the most serious threats to business and society, heard a New York conference

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    BP fined $87m for safety failures

    2009-11-02T11:20:00Z

    Labour safety authorities issue BP with a record fine after it fails to eliminate hazards that caused the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion

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    Fewer Health & Safety investigations

    2009-10-29T15:21:00Z

    Figures reveal the number of HSE investigations declined by 43% in five years

  • Features

    Never miss a trick!

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Nathan Skinner invites you to test your skills by playing our spot the fraud game

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    Protecting intellectual property

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Companies are struggling in their fight to protect IP. Their risk managers can help, says Andrew Leslie

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    The future is Live

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Airmic consulted its members on its future activities via a dial-in telephone discussion as part of the Airmic Live! Series.The discussion was chaired by Lynda Lucas of Fujitsu, and the Airmic panel of chairman Paul Howard, chief executive John Hurrell and technical director Paul Hopkin outlined plans for the future ...

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    An update of ERM systems

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    There are products on the market to help companies make sense of the large amount of data that risk management can create. Sara Edlington talks to some of the companies that think they have the answer

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    Guard your data

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack says that the information that companies hold is as valuable as money for hackers and criminals. The consequences for businesses can be embarrassing and expensive

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    Risk manager careers

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    After nine months, the Airmic Academy has taken stock of how it has so far delivered knowledge and skills for different grades of risk management professionals. In particular, the exercise has highlighted soft skills as something it should offer in future.The Academy is gradually being moulded to more accurately reflect ...

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    Consulting on captives

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Although the European Commission accepted that the future regulation of captive insurance companies should be proportionate to their type of business, the definition of a captive in Solvency II is narrow and likely to affect non-EU domiciled captive insurers significantly, Airmic believes. Airmic’s captive special interest group is preparing a ...

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    Inherent risk ranking: Why bother?

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Richard Archer explores the concept of inherent risk ranking, and asks if it’s worth the effort

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    The enforcement emphasis on both sides of ‘the pond’

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    With new brooms sweeping clean and increased powers, expect greater scrutiny warn Kevin Roberts, Randall Fons, and Brian Neil Hoffman

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    Financial crisis could happen again

    2009-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The financial crisis could take place all over again, BBC business editor Robert Peston told this year’s Airmic lecture. Peston and Zurich Group chief economist Daniel Hofmann were joint lecturers in an evening concerned with the aftermath of the financial crisis.Quite a lot that needs to be done is not ...