Research finds lower levels of both systemic and idiosyncratic risk among politically connected businesses.

The real skill in risk management is not preventing past crises from recurring, but learning from them and identifying root causes to prevent them happening at all, explains Anthony Fitzsimmons of Reputability.

Clear disclosures about the effect of major new accounting standards, alongside better linkage between strategy, KPIs and remuneration, are areas under the gaze of the Financial Reporting Council.

Handling risk should not be viewed as the domain of a boardroom “expert” but as an area for collective decision-making, where everyone recognises there is no such thing as certainty.

Everyone wants executive behaviour to improve. But the solution cannot just be to increase regulation—the answer lies in better managerial education and audacious corporate governance reform.

Sentencing body sets new guidelines for corporate manslaughter fines after past penalties considered too weak.

Deloitte research reveals financial firms could do more on risk.