Move Over Nat Cats, Kitty Cats Are Riling the Insurance Marketplace
With spring rapidly approaching, many municipalities, homeowners and business dwellers alike will be preparing for....
Wake Up, CEOs
By many measures, Tim Cook is having a great year. Apple, which he runs as CEO, is the most-profitable company in the...
2023 Will Be a Time for Business to Experiment
What a year to run a business! An unprovoked war triggers a global energy crisis, the worst inflation in decades...
Aviation’s Recovery Isn’t As Robust as Expected
In the aviation world, 2022 was projected to be a year of recovery. But that was before a series of exogenous shocks that...
Supply Chain Strategies Are Likely to Lead to More Deglobalization
Businesses have been facing shocks on multiple fronts these days, from COVID-19 and inflation to the conflict in Ukraine...
Why SEC Emissions Rule May Benefit Retail and Consumer Goods
Given vast product lines and far-flung supply chains, retail and consumer goods companies face a harder task than many...
How Persistent Inflation Is Causing Procurement to Adapt
It has been almost two years since the first signs of inflation, ignited by the COVID-19 pandemic, began appearing across...
The Cybersecurity Playbook for 2022 and Beyond
Recognize the pervasiveness of the threat and overhaul operations and culture to strengthen preparedness and...
The Metaverse: A 5-Year Forecast of How It Will Affect Your Business
The metaverse is having its moment internationally, accelerated by COVID-19’s impact on digital-based economies and...
Going Beyond Investments — The Role of Commercial Underwriting in the Climate Transition
The financial services industry is an accelerator in the transition to net-zero targets, for example with the focus on...
BRINK Explores the Technology Sector in 2020
A year is a long time in the technology space. In 2019, much of our focus was on blockchain and 5G, but in 2020, it was...
Do You Consider Yourself Cyber-Literate?
Cybersecurity frequently makes the headlines and has featured in the U.S. election — yet many people lack the basic skills to keep themselves...
Recession is back on the table. Are you ready?
To be prepared for a recession amid COVID-19, a company must be able to mitigate as many risks as possible and identify as many opportunities that...
Confrontations and Threats: The Prospects for 2020 and Beyond
Residents in the Sydney area were warned of catastrophic fire danger as Australia prepared for a fresh wave of deadly bushfires...
What’s the right balance of energy, security and sustainability?
An energy transition is unfolding around the world. In efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and air pollution, governments are installing...
Driving ESG investing in Asia
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) and Oliver Wyman, with the support of the Asia Pacific Risk Center (APRC), have collaborated on the report...
Impact Investing In Asia
Impact investing is defined by the intention to generate positive and measurable social and environmental impacts alongside financial returns. Fundamental to the growing...
Navigating cyber risk quantification
As investments in Cyber Security increase, many Boards and C-Suite executives are asking “how much is our true exposure to potential cyber losses?”, “how do we know our investment in Cyber Security is...
Developing the risk function of the future
The role of the risk manager has always been to understand and manage threats to a given business. In theory, this involves a very broad mandate to capture all possible risks, both current...
Advancing Cyber Risk Management: from security to resilience
Since 2017, risk experts have consistently ranked large-scale cyber attacks and data fraud among the top five mostly likely risks around the the world. Despite growing...
Time to switch rates: Preparing for the Libor transition
It has been almost two years since Andrew Bailey, CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), announced that the FCA would not compel panel banks to submit...
Preparing for the age of the digital attacker
“Forty percent of businesses … unfortunately, will not exist in a meaningful way in 10 years,” John Chambers, retired Cisco CEO, once...
Risk survey report: the evolving treasury ecosystem
Singapore - Strategic and financial risks, along with cybersecurity, will dominate the risk landscape for the next 18 to 36...
The construction industry is being reinvented – Here’s how
Singapore - This piece is the final part of a weeklong series examining the challenges facing infrastructure around the world. Jon Phillips of the...
Financial services are uninspiring. A fresh start may be the solution
The next big wave of innovation in financial services will be driven by existing firms starting with a blank canvas. For an industry whose product—the movement and storage of...
How much do you know about Blockchain?
Singapore - Blockchain is attracting huge amounts of attention, but its implications are often poorly understood. Starting today, BRINK is running a five-part series...