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The convective storm surge and what risk managers can still control
Severe convective storm losses were below trend in the first half of 2026, but elevated storm activity shows why businesses cannot afford to ease off on resilience.
Low water is becoming a chronic supply chain risk for organisations reliant on inland waterways
Inland waterways are central to lower-carbon freight strategies, but recurring drought is exposing the risks of supply chains built around historically reliable river systems.
Bank impersonation: The new frontier of funds transfer fraud
Tom Draper, managing director at Coalition UK, explains how criminals are adapting funds transfer fraud tactics to bypass improving financial controls, and where businesses remain exposed.
Legacy tech: the silent threat to CNI
Jen Modi, regional sales director at Barrier Networks, explores how legacy technology is increasing cyber and operational risk across critical national infrastructure, and what organisations can do to modernise without disrupting essential services.
Airmic 2026: Risk managers urged to focus on vulnerabilities as risks converge
Risk managers must look past heatmaps and risk registers to understand where interconnected threats could expose the business, Airmic delegates warned.
Insurance sector still scratching head over muddy emerging risk of intellectual property, cyber and general liability cross-section
Risk managers could face policy exclusions arising from ‘complicated’ emerging risk cross-section, however broker senior vice-president ringfences geopolitical challenges as the risk community’s most pressing concern in 2026
Climate risk exposes adaptation gaps in pharma supply chains
Almost nine in ten pharmaceutical companies expect climate-related disruption to their supply chains to increase, but new research suggests practical adaptation remains limited and supplier visibility is still a significant barrier.
No single route to lower-carbon freight as risk profiles diverge
Maritime, road, rail and air freight face very different safety, infrastructure and investment challenges as operators move away from fossil fuels.
Case study: How sanctions pressure exposed gaps in Citibank’s controls
A £4.7m fine against Citibank’s London branch exposes how sanctions controls came under strain as alert volumes surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Drone threat raises risk for businesses using Russian airspace
Ukraine has called for civilian flights through Russian airspace to be prohibited as expanding drone operations cause growing disruption at Russian airports and increase the risks facing airlines and insurers.
Opinion: The speed of risk – Why risk management is failing in real-time
Risk occurrence is unfolding at the speed of technology, while risk management is trundling along at the pace of governance, creating a dangerous mismatch. Risk professionals must switch up their thinking and review risk through three dimensions – magnitude, velocity and connectivity
Sector Focus: Informal communication ‘scope creep’ exposes CPS sector to ‘slowly changing claims environment’
‘Clients [that] are using informal channels can create contractually and legally binding agreements and, if they then default on those agreements, or if they don’t deliver what the customer thought was being promised, then there’s a risk of being exposed to a claim,’ says partner
Employee risk is ‘definitely higher up’ corporate agendas as ‘very significant’ losses start to stack up – Zurich
The insurer’s head of commercial claims says that although employees are the ‘most important assets’ within an organisation, they are also ‘one of the points of greatest weakness’
Risk tools spotlight: Change management beyond the project plan
As transformation becomes continuous, organisations need to manage the risks created by the journey as carefully as the destination. Effective change management means understanding the human pressures that can undermine adoption, from fatigue and overload to disengagement and a lack of trust.
Rare earth dispute exposes compliance collision in global supply chains
Chinese countermeasures against a major supply-chain due diligence body are beginning to collide with rare-earth trade, creating new problems for businesses trying to meet different regulatory requirements across global supply chains.
Lithium chokepoints put global supply chains at risk
WTW research shows how shocks across South America’s Lithium Triangle could spread through contracts, logistics networks and balance sheets without causing direct physical damage.
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