Reputation Risk Solutions

Reputation risk threatens financial resilience.

We provide tools for risk management and governance of your mission-critical reputation, and world-class D&O Side RTM reputation insurance, too.

It takes guts to run a business—and to oversee a business—profitably, ethically, and mindfully. The reward can be great, but so is the risk. C-suite and board members guided by their personal moral convictions and legal counsel are knowingly risking their personal reputations. Today they’re also unapologetically looking for safety armor for their firms and themselves.

No matter what course of action firms take, in our increasingly chaotic economic and political business environment, some customers, employees, regulators or investors will feel betrayed. Acting directly or through professional activists, they are holding corporate leadership in a double bind—liable for actual losses and culpable for alleged future losses. D&O liability insurance can help cover actual losses, but not what may happen in the future. Nor for the damages incurred by individual directors tried for culpability in the court of public opinion, where unlike the court of law, there are few rules. 

This is reputation risk—now less predictable, governable, or manageable.

Personal risk in a corporate crisis is back. Strategies to preserve financial resilience after a crisis may lead to painful board exit conversations and impair board members’ personal reputations. Board members “voted off the islandwill lose compensation and, more significantly, future opportunities. Compensation clawbacks are no longer unthinkable. Only reputation insurance (D&O Side R), a parametric companion to D&O liability insurance sides A, B, and C, will cover these costs and add to resilience.

Benefits to companies that are resilient include customers buying, not boycotting; employees working, not fleeing; investors buying, not selling; lenders adjusting interest rates down, not up; regulators deferring, not enforcing; and social license holders acquiescing, not protesting. But even in resilient firms, stakeholders may still demand a “fall guy.”

Steel City Re’s strategic tools help risk managers build corporate resilience by forecasting reputation risk and protecting enterprise value. We help companies, c-suites, and boardrooms mitigate personal costs—armor—with strategic D&O Side R reputation insurance.

Steel City Re is a reputation risk specialist forging reputation resilience through risk forecasting, management, and insurance.

Forecast Reputation Risk

Our Resilience Monitor is the world’s only objective, forward-looking indicator of a company’s reputation value and risk. It provides timely quantitative measurements for risk strategies.


Protect Enterprise Value

Our Reputation Risk Strategy Framework includes advisory tools for risk managers to combine external human intelligence with existing ERM practices, and communicate the effectiveness of strategic risk management.


Insure Risk Strategically

For corporate resilience to have value, stakeholders must discover and trust it. We support that with the world’s only strategic D&O Side R reputation risk re/insurance and solutions for companies, captives, and leadership.


Latest News And Commentary

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