In a new report, COVID-19: Evolving Insurance and Risk Management Implications, Guy Carpenter-affiliate Marsh provides an overview of some of the key coverage, claims, and risk management areas that are currently top of mind for businesses and insurers. COVID-19 could have implications for a variety of coverage lines, including property, casualty, event cancellation, management ... Continue Reading »
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2020 AFP Risk Survey: Cybersecurity Continues to Dominate Risk Landscape
While cyber risk flew under the radar 10 years ago, today it’s a top concern. In a survey of nearly 365 treasury and financial professionals, 53 percent of respondents reported that cybersecurity risk is currently the most challenging risk to manage, and the majority believe it will continue to be for the next three years. ... Continue Reading »
Is the Energy Sector’s Risk Management Keeping Up with the Pace of Digitalization
Expanding digitalization is a core characteristic of the energy sector’s ongoing transformation. The adoption of intelligent, sophisticated technology, including artificial intelligence for control and monitoring systems, is enabling new business models and more efficient asset management. ... Continue Reading »
Managing the New Risks From Emerging Technologies
The same technological developments and tools that are enabling organizations to transform and advance are also introducing their own set of potential threats. ... Continue Reading »
Organizational Enablers for the Future Risk Management Function
The success of the risk function – or any function, for that matter – does not solely depend on the skillsets and roles of individual risk managers. A function’s success also depends on how the company as a whole operates. A recent survey, for instance, found that innovations by one unit often fail to be adopted across the wider company due to issues with how different parts ... Continue Reading »
How to Line Up Your Cyber Defense
Given the reality of the cyber threat landscape, you need to determine the tools you need to mitigate and respond to inevitable cyber attacks. Unfortunately, while both the aggressiveness and sophistication of cyber attacks have accelerated, defensive capabilities have been relatively slow to evolve and respond (1). ... Continue Reading »
Complications That Impact Cyber Resilience
In an increasingly complex business and cyber landscape, organizations encounter greater challenges when trying to balance their business resilience and cyber security priorities. Between 2016 and 2018, the rate of growth for internet users was 10 times faster than the global population. Correspondingly, the surface area for attack has expanded exponentially (1). The ... Continue Reading »
Advancing Cyber Risk Management – From Security to Resilience
In an increasingly digital economy, cyber threats and vulnerabilities evolve fast. But despite growing anxieties around cyber, traditional security strategies and investments continue to lag. For organizations focused on balancing their growth plans and cyber security priorities both challenges and opportunities remain. The new report from Marsh & McLennan Insights, ... Continue Reading »
Healthcare Organizations and Medical Risk: What HCOs Need to Know About the Medical Risks They Own
As healthcare organizations transition their business models from "fee for service" to "fee for value," margin pressure, capital allocation and expense management are pitfalls to a successful transition. We argue that the creation of an integrated risk strategy framework to think about medical risk collectively (the medical risk continuum) will empower healthcare organizations ... Continue Reading »
Insurance Risk Management 2025: Navigating the Digital Future
How could the insurance industry look in 2025, and what are the implications for the risk function? A video from Guy Carpenter affiliate Oliver Wyman offers a futuristic glimpse of a rapidly evolving industry. The insurance industry of today is already highly complex. However, this complexity is only likely to increase as business models evolve, the speed of change regarding ... Continue Reading »
