Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

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.

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Airmic-McGill & Partners, 6th July 2022
Friday Reading Edition 150 (21st April 2023)
The aim of this guide is to provide a toolkit to assist directors in understanding and keeping pace with the ever more complex cyber-related threats faced by the companies they serve.
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Allianz, 1st January 2023
Friday Reading Edition 138 (27th January 2023)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] Elevated levels of disruption look set to continue in 2023 as dangers from digitalisation, the war in Ukraine, high energy prices and inflation, geopolitical and economic uncertainty, and climate change test already strained business models and supply chains, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer.
Airmic, 8th December 2022
Friday Reading Edition 135 (16th December 2022)
Hear from Control Risks as they explore 2023's RiskMap and the top risks facing organisations in the next 12 months.
Control Risks
Friday Reading Edition 135 (16th December 2022)
The Top Risks are the main risks your organisation needs to plan for and mitigate in 2023. They are broad, sometimes all encompassing, but none can be ignored.
Lloyd’s, 1st October 2022
Friday Reading Edition 134 (9th December 2022)
The second report from Lloyd’s Futureset in response to the conflict in Ukraine, created in collaboration with Aon, outlines the immediate role the (re)insurance industry is playing in responding to emerging customer needs and goes on to explore by how we can deploy the powerful tools at our disposal – our expertise, innovation, capital and collaboration – to help build greater resilience against the long-term impacts of the conflict.
Allianz, 1st October 2022
Friday Reading Edition 129 (4th November 2022)
[Free to download upon sharing contact details] This report highlights some of the main cyber risk trends from an underwriting, risk consulting and claims perspective, such as the growing cost of ransomware attacks – which has been the major loss driver in recent years, the targeting of more smaller‑sized companies by hackers, the increasing frequency and sophistication of business email compromise attacks in the ‘Zoom and deep fake era’.
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Aon , 20th July 2022
Friday Reading Edition 129 (4th November 2022)
The cryptocurrency market has been on a roller-coaster ride in 2022 — with the value of bitcoin falling 70 percent since its peak in November 2021. Also growing at a rapid pace is the metaverse — a virtual simulation of the real (or imagined) world.
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Lloyd’s, 30th June 2022
Friday Reading Edition 129 (4th November 2022)
Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, the report uses scenario-based analysis to help manage uncertainty around the interconnected threat of cyber and geopolitics, looking specifically at the perils of state-sponsored cyber-attacks.
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Protivi, 25th April 2022
Friday Reading Edition 129 (4th November 2022)
While AI is still in the early stages of adoption and regulators are cautiously monitoring the developments, the industry can demonstrate its willingness and ability to partner with regulators to ensure that its use of AI has public acceptance and is seen to deliver real benefits to society while minimising and managing potential risks. Achieving that degree of support is how we define success.
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McKinsey & Co, 10th March 2022
Friday Reading Edition 129 (4th November 2022)
Companies can address and mitigate the disruptions of the future only by taking a more proactive, forward-looking stance. Over the next three to five years, McKinsey expects three major cybersecurity trends that cross-cut multiple technologies to have the biggest implications for organisations.
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