Lead enterprise-wide strategy. Risk management is surely broken. Ambitious risk managers committed to upgrading risk strategy and creating enterprise value with better enterprise intelligence, strategic packaging and a unified organization can fix it.
A risk strategy, is, well, strategic. You know, it boosts value. If no one knows your firm has effective thoughtful risk management and dutiful governance over all that is mission critical, can it possibly be strategic? As the path to boosting equity value through share buybacks becomes increasingly expensive, this is a vital question CRO’s, CFO’s and board risk committees need to ask their risk leadership.
Risk Strategy Authentication and Communication.If you oversee an effective reputation risk strategy process, but no one knows it, is it actually effective? This is a vital question boards of directors, senior executives, and risk professionals need to ask themselves in this era of enhanced regulatory enforcement. Building resilience requires a demonstrably effective, insurance-authenticated system.
The military, and many corporate leaders, think in terms of an ‘OODA loop’ — the amount of time it takes to Observe, Orient, Decide and Act. We live in an era where weaponized social media has compressed OODA time frame for reputation risk management dramatically, especially when institutional investors are on tenterhooks.
Reputation risk emerges when the expectations of a critical mass of stakeholders shifts, and the value of favorable expectations transforms into the costs of emotionally-rich disappointment. Twitter’s blue check “chaos” shows that the velocity of reputation risk boosted is approaching military-grade speeds.
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Parametric insurance ESG authentication. Parametric insurance, which has long been popular in disaster recovery, is gaining steam as a proxy for proving the effectiveness of ESG programs. Nir Kossovsky and Denise Williamee of insurer Steel City Re explore details of this novel ESG solution. Insurance-based authentication — a regulatory lynchpin — is a recent innovation made possible by parametric insurance solutions.
Captives for ESG Goals. Nir Kossovsky, CEO, Steel City Re, said organizations that form captives can use them to cover risks in an ESG-friendly manner, which will help them reduce reputation risks.
Captives for a Challenging Market. Mitigating risk strategically through expectation management and operational adjustments evinces thoughtful management and dutiful governance. Financing such risks evinces prudence, and doing so publicly with insurance captives and reinsurance enables stakeholders to appreciate and value the effort. These comprise the core of Steel City Re’s professional services
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