Bloomberg/Insurance Journal (11/25/2019)
The Trump administration's move to relax an Obama-era chemical safety regulation put in place after an explosion at a fertilizer plant is the latest example of the White House easing rules established in the wake of disasters.

Risk Management Magazine (11/25/2019)
It is no longer enough for companies to reactively address cybersecurity threats. Instead, it is increasingly important for businesses to be able to proactively identify and respond to any type of unusual activity taking place on their networks.

Commercial Risk (11/21/2019)
Ransomware attacks are becoming more sophisticated and increasingly targeting large companies, with ransom demands on the rise, experts warned risk managers attending our recent cyber conference. They added that companies must consider a number of factors before deciding how to respond to these attacks, and ultimately choosing whether to pay up or not.

Forbes (11/25/2019)
As the market matures, insurers and reinsurers are gradually realizing that potential losses due to large loss events and cyber catastrophes are an imminent risk to their books and need to be addressed immediately.

Property Casualty 360 (11/25/2019)
All companies face cybersecurity threats, but the legalized cannabis industry's storage of personally identifiable information and reliance on seed-to-sale tracking software can place it firmly within hackers' crosshairs.

Asia Insurance Post (11/22/2019)
For the second consecutive year, a survey "Excellence in Risk Management India 2019" by Marsh and the US based RIMS, the risk management society, ranked cyber-attacks as the number one critical risk facing their organisations, with extreme weather events a distant second.

Reuters (11/25/2019)
Bundles of yuan notes were stacked high behind the counters of branches of Yingkou Coastal Bank earlier this month, as the northeast China lender fought off a run on deposits while onsite government officials battled rumors of a funding crunch.

Canadian Underwriter (11/22/2019)
It doesn't take long for comments that would be negatively received by the populace to go viral, and that's one of the newest challenges for risk managers and business leaders.

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