Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 80 (29th October 2021)
Risks associated with the pandemic have changed the risk profile of the world. While the disease and pandemics don’t make it into the top five risks of the 2021 Airmic survey, risk connectivity means that every risk in the Airmic top ten has been and continues to be touched by the pandemic and its systemic effect.
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Friday Reading Edition 80 (29th October 2021)
Ransomware attacks have continued hitting the headlines, and has rapidly become the key cyber threat to organisations globally. This despite an increasingly active and disruptive geopolitical threat picture with individual organisations, global supply chains and critical infrastructure also increasingly targeted by state-linked actors.
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Friday Reading Edition 79 (22nd October 2021)
This report is report designed to help UK businesses understand the unique risks they face and plan for the future. It found unsurprisingly that public health events topped businesses' key risks followed by changes in legislation and business interruption.
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Friday Reading Edition 79 (22nd October 2021)
Features the types of fraud on the rise, how fraudsters may use COVID-19 to their favour, example of recent Suspected Insurance Fraud and the tactics used, and how the industry is working together to fight fraud.
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Friday Reading Edition 79 (22nd October 2021)
Managing cyber risk in today’s world as it relates to law is vast a topic, and as such, there is far too much information to cover in one article. This article is part one of three to go over the complexities that come with cyber risk and law firms, although the issues raised apply equally to other sectors.
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Friday Reading Edition 76 (24th September 2021)
Covid-19 has accelerated the rise of the intangible economy marking one of the most important economic shifts in modern times. Howden calls on insurers to help fill protection gaps as intangible risks become increasingly ‘invisible’ across multiple lines of business and territories.
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Friday Reading Edition 76 (24th September 2021)
Produced in partnership with Aon Risk Solutions and Ventiv Technology – technological advances and the lowering cost of computing makes data available to businesses like never before. Successful businesses are using this data to review business models and drive transformation.
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Friday Reading Edition 74 (11th September 2021)
[Free to access upon setting up an account] Conrad Prince, Senior Cyber Terrorism Advisor to Pool Re, looks at the increasing threat of ransomware, what it means for business, and how it could be employed by malicious actors for strategic effect.
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Friday Reading Edition 72 (27th August 2021)
The SolarWinds hack impacted multiple organisations globally, including US government departments, tech companies, and other corporates. It has raised renewed questions about supply chain security, how companies can protect themselves and how Western governments can prevent other operations of this kind.
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
Given the profound uncertainties and their varying impact across business lines, insurers must commit strongly to risk-oriented, structured decision-making approaches. It is time for chief risk officers (CROs) to step up to this challenge. With their help, the industry can reinvent itself to stay relevant to customers and attractive to investors.
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