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In the article, published on Saturday, Jan. 18th, on the eve of a Libya peace conference in Berlin, Erdogan said the EU’s failure to adequately support the Government of National Accord (GNA) would be “a betrayal of its own core values, including democracy and human rights”.

Stavros back on the podium. This time drawing from his extensive experience and expertise in risk management and business continuity planning, addresses an audience of supply chain related professionals from across the field of supply, operations, logistics, production and distribution attending.

Navigating today’s business environment is a mammoth task. Tightening regulations, newly surfacing technologies, increasing shareholder activism, intensifying class action litigation activity, escalating merger objections and IPO activity and rising levels of public and governmental scrutiny, are all challenges for corporate directors and officers.

Businesses enter into numerous contractual agreements year after year that have both risk management and insurance implications.

On June 22, 2017, The New York Times carried an article whose headline said “A Cyberattack ‘the World Isn’t Ready For’”. It was about the IDT Corporation, which was attacked in April with two cyberweapons stolen from the National Security Agency.

Risk Management is about identifying risks and avoiding disruptions. Risk Management is about Efficiency. Risk Management is about Money. However, in the corporate jungle Money is someone else’s protected territory. The sign at the gate warns: Finance.

Regardless the size of an organization, a local enterprise or a multifaceted global corporation, Business Interruption (BI) insurance and claims adjustment, are considered as challenges of high complexity by risk managers and underwriters alike.

An efficient supply chain is one of the most underrated and misunderstood aspects of business management. Your supply chain, which can be quaint and local or multi-organizational and global, controls the flow of products and information and, therefore, the flow of capital.

Who would have imagined? At a time when the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbs above 15,000 for the first time and investor euphoria persists, trust in companies and their CEOs ranks near or at record lows.

During the last couple of years so many CEOs and other Board level Directors talk about risk management in such an enthusiastic way. It seems that among the large Greek enterprises risk management has become one of the trendiest topics of the C-suite.

ROADS TO RUIN – A STUDY OF MAJOR RISK EVENTS: THEIR ORIGINS, IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS – A report by Cass Business School on behalf of Airmic sponsored by Crawford and Lockton

The adverse impact of the domestic economic depression drives Greek companies to look for markets in neighboring countries and beyond.

The collapse of Enron and other corporate scandals in the early 2000s and ever since demonstrate how imprudent company cultures can lead to unethical practices and outright fraud.

The most common type of transaction insurance is Representation and Warranties (R&W) insurance, which targets the net liabilities facing parties in M&A deals.

Some business executives believe that their general liability or umbrella business insurance policies will cover claims involving directors and officers. Not true.

Following last year’s success Stavros Papagiannopoulos was invited back to the “Business Continuity & Supply Chain Conference”, organized by the Supply Chain Institute of Southeastern & Central Europe, that took place on October 14, 2015 in Athens Greece

On Thursday, Feb. 26, James Clapper, the director of U.S. national intelligence, testifying on Capitol Hill said 2014 was the worst year on record for global terrorism, as he presented the annual worldwide threats assessment.

Papagiannopoulos, CEO,  EXL Consulting, delivered the opening address on the subject of Supply Chain Risk Management, at the October 23, 2014 Congress on Supply Chain Trends: “Supply Chain: 10 Years Ahead”, organized by the Supply Chain Institute of Southeastern & Central Europe, in Athens Greece.

Are you looking for great names or for great talent? The old saying that you can’t get fired for hiring IBM is not longer valid. Organizations nowadays want top-level service less the overheads.

A top executive traveling for work in India took a weekend side trip with his wife to an idyllic island nearby. He suddenly fell ill with a fever, nausea and vomiting.

For years, security professionals have been saying “either you have been data breached or you just do not know that you have been data breached.”

n May 2011, the e-coli outbreak in Germany caused 50 deaths, and well over 3,200 infections linked to contaminated vegetables. Of the infected, more than 800 were diagnosed with a severe form of intestinal illness, with possible long-term health effects.

Whether you’re looking for a comprehensive international health insurance plan for your family or you just want to cover the essentials for yourself, or if you’re a growing business with employees travelling regularly to new markets, or you have expats working around the globe, you are out for quality easy-to-manage health insurance at a clear price.

You may have kidnap, ransom and extortion insurance and not even know it. You may have it and know it but not be able to use it.

Our definition of Insurance Management is the management of all of your insurance needs, both professional and personal, by a single expert vendor.

Organizations are experiencing rapid supply chain expansion with decentralized supplier base. Although expanded supplier base has helped in gaining major cost advantages and market share, it has resulted in a more unstable supply chain.

As we say, at EXL we are a team of young thinking individuals – dedicated professionals, with finance, insurance, law, engineering, safety & loss prevention and risk management background.

Risk Management is an increasingly important business driver and stakeholders are becoming increasingly concerned about the way corporate risks are managed.