Strengthen business resilience and make informed decisions across complex third-party and supply chain ecosystems. Risk Management for Third Parties and Supply Chains gives senior leaders proven tools for governing risk, improving oversight and safeguarding operational continuity in a volatile global environment. With shifting regulations, geopolitical shocks and rising dependency on external partners, this book shows how to build a strategic, enterprise-wide approach that delivers measurable results.

This paper draws on joint insurer-risk manager dialogue to examine how protection gaps emerge in practice, why they persist across complex programmes, and what a more coherent approach to closing them could look like.

On 9 March 2026, the UK Government released its first substantive update on the new UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement following the commitment in May last year to take the Agreement forward. The proposed SPS framework would effectively create a shared SPS zone to streamline the GB-EU/Northern Ireland movement of food, feed, animals and plants, reducing checks and paperwork. It would also see the UK dynamically aligning with a wide body of EU SPS legislation.

Amid the current energy crisis, tackling methane could also help countries improve gas market security – a top priority following the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has removed close to 20% of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply from the market.