An international team of researchers has confirmed that live animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market were the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. Confirming that the source was an animal-human interface shows policy makers where to focus to help reduce the risk of future pandemics resulting from similar source conditions.
More than three-quarters of companies (76 percent) cut costs to survive during the pandemic; now 90 percent of C-suite executives say they must take a whole new approach to costs in order to transform their businesses to respond to ongoing disruption while also uncovering new growth and value.
The twelfth meeting of the WHO International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) took place on Friday, 8th July 2022.
The UK’s financial sector and markets supervisory authorities have released a new Discussion Paper exploring ways to bring critical third parties (CTPs) into operational resilience regulation.
Resilience First, in partnership with Pool Re, has published the second edition of its Guide for Non-Executive Directors on Operational Resilience. This latest edition is a practical resource, providing key challenges and principles
International SOS has issued a checklist of actions that businesses in at-risk areas should take to prepare for 2022’s hurricanes. The company says that when assessing these plans, current supply chain disruptions should be taken into consideration.
Marsh McLennan has released its updated Flood Risk Index 2.0, which shows how flood risks are expected to alter and develop as the climate changes.
UK Finance has released the results of the third set of results from an ongoing operational resilience industry benchmarking survey. The results focus on approaches to important business services (IBS).
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a report that describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the operations of trading venues and market intermediaries and concludes that these regulated entities largely proved to be operationally resilient.
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