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How quantum computing could impact risk management and claims

March 18, 2024 Jason Contant

Quantum computing’s impact on P&C insurance operations will be wide-ranging, say several sources who spoke with CU. Almost every sector and department of the industry could be affected, including actuarial, risk management and underwriting teams, data analytics, IT, claims processing,

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How the hard market impacts public risk managers

October 25, 2023 Alyssa Di Sabatino

Budgeting is where risk managers of publicly owned organizations feel the hard market the most. Public risk managers must often buy insurance for their entire region or branch while predicting what future losses may be. Like all risk managers, they

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Risk of shock to financial system down, but concerns linger: Bank of Canada survey

May 15, 2023 The Canadian Press

OTTAWA – Risk management experts believe the likelihood of a shock that could impair the Canadian financial system has decreased since last year, but concern remains around geopolitical tensions, high inflation, unemployment and household debt burdens. The Bank of Canada’s

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How OSFI wants P&C insurers to manage their third-party risks

May 8, 2023 by David Gambrill

Canada’s financial solvency regulator has published its final revised guideline for managing risks associated with third-party contracts and arrangements, having addressed industry concerns about scope, prescription and the timing of implementation. Guideline B-10: Third-Party Risk Management sets out enhanced third-party

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Can risk management companies close the talent gap?

April 20, 2023 Jason Contant

A high percentage of today’s pool of risk managers has been working in the industry a long time, and the next largest group are fairly new to the business. Those in the younger group “are excited about what they’ve done

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Risk is changing. Is your approach to risk evolving, too?

February 24, 2023 by David Gambrill

As the world emerges from the pandemic, and geopolitical tensions soar, risk managers need to think of risk much more holistically than they have traditionally, says Sonia Kundi, chief risk officer for Zurich Canada. “I guess the thing that really

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The overlooked risk for which your business clients need to plan

February 15, 2023 by David Gambrill

In the aftermath of the pandemic, all sights are set on cybersecurity, talent acquisition and economic recession as top business risks, but companies should also focus on preparing for physical threats, says Mark Herrington of the risk intelligence firm OnSolve.

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How can you improve cybersecurity? Hire more women

December 9, 2022 Camelia Radu and Nadia Smaili

By Camelia Radu, Associate Professor in Accounting, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) and Nadia Smaili, Professor in Accounting (forensic accounting), Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM). This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source

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Why risk managers are feeling a sense of urgency

September 29, 2022 by Jason Contant

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the business and risk landscape dramatically over the past couple of years and created a sense of urgency to spread risk knowledge and education, the new CEO of RIMS said in an interview with Canadian

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Commercial insureds favour supply chain certainty over higher costs of goods

September 14, 2022 by David Gambrill

Commercial clients of the Canadian P&C industry are pragmatically accepting higher costs of goods to achieve more certainty around product and service delivery, one P&C industry executive observed. It’s a pragmatic response to a volatile world featuring war, a looming

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Canada could have its own Fyre Festival fiasco if it doesn’t amp up event regulations

August 25, 2022 Sean Spence

This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. In the spring of 2017, the public spectacle over the now

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What Navacord’s 15th deal of the year brought into the fold

July 26, 2022 by Jason Contant

Navacord Corp. has completed its 15th M&A deal of the year, this one involving a large commercial brokerage known for its risk management expertise with automotive dealerships. Navacord’s latest partnership is with Ottawa-based Binks Insurance Brokers Limited. Founded in 1918,