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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.

To select multiple categories and/or keywords, use Ctrl+Click (or ⌘+Click on a Mac).
The 2024 UK Corporate Governance Code Text
Financial Reporting Council, 22nd January 2024
Friday Reading Edition 217 (13th September 2024)
The 2024 Code will apply to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2025. The Code is applicable companies listed in the commercial companies category or the closed-ended investment funds category, regardless of where they are incorporated.
Categories:
Risk Financing, Risk Management
Keywords:
Standards and Guidance, Corporate Liability
Internal Audit Code of Practice – Principles on effective internal audit in the financial services, private and third sectors Text
Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors
Friday Reading Edition 217 (13th September 2024)
The new Internal Audit Code of Practice sets out fundamental principles for running a strong and effective internal audit function. For the first time, we present a unified Code that encompasses the financial services, private, and third sectors.
Categories:
Risk Financing, Risk Management
Keywords:
Standards and Guidance, Corporate Liability
It’s time for banks to embrace, test, and fail with AI – Decoding AI risks: Fail fast or fall behind Text
Oliver Wyman
Friday Reading Edition 196 (5th April 2024)
Banks depend on accurate and definitive models and outputs for decision-making, risk management and, ultimately, customer satisfaction. AI is designed in part to provide those reliable outputs — but the results so far have sometimes included mistakes.
Categories:
Risk Financing, Risk Management, Cyber
Keywords:
Business Continuity Management, Digital Transformation, Data Protection, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
These are the biggest non-financial risks for banks Text
KPMG
Friday Reading Edition 163 (28th July 2023)
In the uncertain economic and geopolitical environment, the importance of non-financial risks (NFR) is increasing for banks.
Categories:
Geopolitics, Risk Financing
Keywords:
Climate Change, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Navigating geopolitical risk: Building resilience demands collaboration in a challenging world Text
Airmic, 23rd February 2023
Friday Reading Edition 159 (30th June 2023)
This report demonstrates why risk and internal audit professionals need to relook at the way they collaborate, as their organisations build resilience amid the maelstrom of geopolitical risks.
Categories:
Geopolitics, Economic Outlook, Risk Financing
Keywords:
Resilience, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Government
Businesses troubled by huge confluence of risks Text
Business Insurance, 5th March 2022
Friday Reading Edition 159 (30th June 2023)
Featuring Jim Wetekamp, CEO of Riskonnect CEO, who was on the keynote panel at the Airmic Conference – on how no business leader, risk manager, insurance broker, or underwriter would have anticipated having a long-running risk event (the pandemic) at the same time as a major military environment (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) all at the same time.
Categories:
Geopolitics, Covid-19, Risk Financing
Keywords:
Supply Chain, Talent, Ukraine, Climate Change
Navigating geopolitical risk: Building resilience demands collaboration in a challenging world Text
Airmic, 23rd February 2023
Friday Reading Edition 156 (2nd June 2023)
This report demonstrates why risk and internal audit professionals need to relook at the way they collaborate, as their organisations build resilience amid the maelstrom of geopolitical risks.
Categories:
Geopolitics, Economic Outlook, Risk Financing
Keywords:
Business Continuity Management, Resilience
Navigating geopolitical risk: Building resilience demands collaboration in a challenging world Text
Airmic, 23rd February 2023
Friday Reading Edition 151 (28th April 2023)
This report demonstrates why risk and internal audit professionals need to relook at the way they collaborate, as their organisations build resilience amid the maelstrom of geopolitical risks.
Categories:
Geopolitics, Risk Financing, Resilience
Keywords:
Business Continuity Management, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Monetary and financial stability: lessons from recent times – speech by Andrew Bailey Text
Bank of England, 4th December 2023
Friday Reading Edition 149 (14th April 2023)
This week’s speech by the governor of the Bank of England, in which he played down the risks of a system-wide banking crisis, paving the way for further interest rate increases to combat the UK’s high inflation levels.
Categories:
Risk Financing, Risk Management
Keywords:
Resilience, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Global Economic Outlook March 2023 report Text
KPMG, 3rd January 2023
Friday Reading Edition 149 (14th April 2023)
KPMG’s latest Global Economic Outlook looks at the prospects for the world economy in 2023 and 2024, providing forecasts for growth, inflation and unemployment for 34 countries and economic areas.
Categories:
Economic Outlook, Risk Financing
Keywords:
Resilience, Government, Environment