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As African leaders gather for the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, it is hard to ignore Egypt. If countries can be too-big-to-fail, Egypt ...

For most firms risk management is a necessary evil, increasingly consigned to being an adjunct to compliance, finance and other so called “business ...

In this hyper-connected, globalized world, the traditional risk management model—in which risk is assessed on an annual basis and interaction with an insurance ...

The biggest risk in sub-Saharan Africa for firms looking to invest in the region’s growing insurance market, will be staying on the sidelines, ...

Firms are not only scrambling to compete in BRIC countries, they are also looking beyond the horizon for growth in frontier markets in ...

Rarely will you find agreement among military brass, business leaders and academics on issues of national security.  Yet this convergence occurred between Harvard ...

Walmart’s alleged violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in Mexico raises the profile of the controversial law to a new level. ...

Among the many challenges facing risk managers in what has become the new normal is how to effectively manage cross-border risk, which is ...

As global politics continue to gyrate, the pace of change poses ever-greater challenges to accurately predicting the future. Many forecasters have gotten into ...

While international business assignments seldom confer diplomatic benefits, by definition, they can have political connotations, and many international assignees often find their freedom ...

Expropriation of foreign-owned assets—ruled passé just a decade ago—is again very much en vogue as the race to control national energy supplies and ...

Although most international risk managers have become accustomed to operating in the “new normal” that has prevailed over the past 4 years, 2013 ...