December 25, 2024
Investors are not good predictors of reputation value loss. At crisis day 155 for Crowdstrike, Boeing, and Southwest, the firms’ equities were -1.4%, -36.4%, and -26.8%. vs S&P500.
Security
October 28, 2024
An industry that is using parametric technology to insure losses from natural disasters caused by wrathful deities can now also provide meaningful insurance for losses from reputation disasters caused by emotional mortals. The 4-M parametric framework of metric, model, monitor and market for natural earthquakes disclosed at the 2023 Hawaii Captives Insurance Conference makes parametric insurance for metaphorical earthquakes easy to back, underwrite, broker and bind.
October 11, 2024
DOJ has updated its expectations expanding the potential for reputation risk. Under the new guidelines, prosecutors will consider whether companies have a process for identifying and managing emerging internal and external risks related to the use of new technologies, such as AI, and whether they are integrated into broader enterprise risk management practices.
October 2, 2024
New this year, the OCC supervisory plan provides updates for third-party-sourced reputation risk and other external exposures.
August 31, 2024
32.9% of companies, including American Airlines and US Bancorp, have compensation clawback policies for reputation harm.
June 8, 2024
Captives are a solution to the lack of innovation. Martin South, president and chief executive officer, Marsh, was being interview by Penny Randall Seach, group chief underwriting officer, Zurich Insurance Company in a Global CEO fireside discussion at AIRMIC called ‘Global forces driving change: a future outlook’ Because the industry is not offering products that address clients’s needs as risks evolve, “some $25 billion of Marsh clients’ premium is now being retained using this form of risk transfer.“ In other news, insurer AXA is reorganizing US operations. Layoffs are expected. Meanwhile, Steel City Re has on offer a remarkably innovative original outcome-based solution to the most complex risk of all. It is a solution insureds have wanted since 2005, and it is backed today by Tokio Marine Kiln.
March 1, 2024
Reputation risk management is an efficient strategy for interconnected risk. “Risk interconnectivity — the interdependence of various risks, illustrating how one risk can affect or amplify others across systems — is of growing concern to global risk managers. […] Andrew Chung, litigation, arbitration and investigations partner at Linklaters, said the key enterprise risks that are top of mind for clients today are interconnected. He explained: “We are seeing how risks across financial crime, cyber, ESG and energy transition, digital transformation and AI, and geopolitics including supply chain and sanctions all have common elements and data, so now require an enterprise-wide and holistic lens more than ever, to properly manage the risks.”
February 8, 2024
Pharma has a misinformation problem — and execs could be on the hook. While vaccine-related misinformation is prevalent, it’s not the only threat. False information can arise around ethics, innovation or safety, and threaten a pharmaceutical firm’s reputation, viability and profitability. Reducing the damage from these threats requires a proactive approach. […] Kossovsky agrees.
October 11, 2023
Steel City Re CEO and former Los Angeles County deputy coroner on what derailed the ESG movement & what boards expect from risk management in the aftermath.
July 23, 2022
Managing corporate reputation is a lot like mixing a cocktail. Both activities embody the same mission-critical principles: authenticated thoughtful risk management and dutiful governance over everything that is mission critical. Everything in the process is #strategic. At the tactical level, the process begins by understanding what stakeholders expect; and understanding that an effective risk management system comprises risk education and threat intelligence, management, and transfer processes (aka insurance) involving the entire enterprise risk management apparatus bounded by the organizations capabilities.