Pandemic outbreak continues to appear on the Top 10 risks facing the Middle East and Africa, after becoming a new entry into these ranks in 2020, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2021.
International credit rating agency AM Best has released a new Country Risk Assessment Report on Iraq, which provides an economic, political and financial system risk assessment of the country.
The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires in Australia are a wake-up-call demonstrating the extreme effects of climate change according to a new study which examines the factors that caused the disaster.
Willis Towers Watson has introduced two new cyber risk assessment services in response to the findings from its recent cyber claims insights report.
Climate change is likely to cause an uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt - a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the Equator - leading to increased flooding in parts of India according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Cyber incidents (#1 with 41% responses), pandemic outbreak (#2 with 39%) and business interruption (#3 with 38%) have skyrocketed to the top three business risks in Asia Pacific, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2021.
Walaa Cooperative Insurance Company's directors have recommended an increase in the company's capital through a rights issue.
Asia Pacific countries not only managed the pandemic better than the western world in 2020, they are also doing better in terms of political risks according to the latest edition of Aon's Political Risk quarterly.
A record number of small business owners in the UK are planning to close their firms over the coming twelve months, putting the UK on course to lose more than a quarter of a million businesses, according to the latest Small Business Index (SBI) of UK.
A coalition of 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet Earth by 2030 by halting the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife according to The High Ambition Coalition (HAC).