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 161 (14th July 2023)
Sir Richard Shirreff – former NATO Deputy Supreme Commander Europe, co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strategia Worldwide, and keynote panellist at the 2023 Airmic Conference in Manchester – warns that unless NATO increases its support for Ukraine, the West could get pulled into a direct conflict with Russia.
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Friday Reading Edition 160 (7th July 2023)
Attack against pride parade foiled by Austrian police. Two individuals sentenced after plot to destroy 5G masts. New IRA collaborated with organised crime groups.
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Friday Reading Edition 160 (7th July 2023)
As a result of the increasing number of incidents, businesses, schools, hospitals, and institutions are looking to evolve their risk management practices and enhance their financial protection from active assailant attacks.
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Friday Reading Edition 159 (30th June 2023)
Channels 4 speaks to Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for Europe – and keynote panellists at the Airmic Conference in Manchester last week – who was in Kyiv to help Ukraine prepare its case for joining Nato – something it will argue for at July 2023 Vilnius summit.
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Friday Reading Edition 159 (30th June 2023)
Now the immediate crisis has been averted, attention has turned to what Yevgeny Prigozhin’s short lived mutiny against the Russian miliary leadership has demonstrated and what it may mean for President Putin personally.
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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.
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Friday Reading Edition 159 (30th June 2023)
Oksana Antonenko, speaker at the Airmic-AIG leadership Leadership Breakfast session at the Airmic Conference in Manchester – and two other experts discuss where rebuilding in Ukraine should start, and which priorities should be advanced to make Ukraine a stronger nation in the postwar future.
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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.
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Friday Reading Edition 156 (2nd June 2023)
The unprecedented international sanctions regime levied against Russia by the EU, US, and their partners have surprised Western observers – let alone Russia – as to the sanction coalition’s ability to remain mostly aligned and united.
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Friday Reading Edition 156 (2nd June 2023)
Ukraine is ready to launch its long-expected counter-offensive against Russian forces, one of the country's most senior security officials has told the BBC.
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