Corporate Governance

In the first half of 2026, Munich Re did two things that appear contradictory at first sight. In life and health reinsurance, it completed its largest-ever single longevity transaction, covering…

First OpenAI, then Anthropic and Meta – and now Google has acknowledged a striking incident involving one of its most powerful AI systems. During a cybersecurity test, Gemini moved beyond the…

Frontier AI changes the cyber threat landscape not because it suddenly invents an entirely new catalogue of attack techniques, but because it changes the speed, scale and autonomy with which…

Risk management should not aim to reduce risk, but rather to enable better decisions in the face of uncertainty. This is precisely the central message of the international Coface 2026 study. This…

Since the Great Financial Crisis, Basel III has been the central regulatory response to the question of how banks can be made more resilient to losses and systemic shocks. The reform package did…

Executives are entering 2026 in an environment where "multiple crises" and accelerated transformation are no longer exceptional – they are structural. The text argues that this persistent…

Four Brandenburg municipalities – Hoppegarten, Hohen Neuendorf, Lübben and the Falkenberg-Höhe office – are currently affected by cyberattacks. Administrative processes come to a standstill,…

With the publication of ISO 9001:2026 expected in fall 2026, a revision of the world's most important quality management standard is imminent, which at first glance appears unspectacular.…

While many companies are still struggling with the bureaucracy of ESG reporting and data protection, a far more dangerous threat is growing in the background: the failure of early risk…

The publication "The 'G' in ESGRC: Sustainable and safe leadership" discusses the concept of ESGRC, which stands for Environmental, Social, Governance, Risk, and Compliance, focusing particularly…

Financial institutions and their directors have to navigate a rapidly changing world, marked by new and emerging risks driven by cyber exposures based on the sector’s reliance on technology, a…

The digital revolution is advancing. Technological developments are rapid and are changing the way we get information and communicate. In the age of digitalisation, it's only right that the ninth…

The regulatory measures following the financial crisis have made credit institutions and the German banking sector, in general, more stable. This is a result of a study by the LOEWE Centre SAFE…

Compliance in SMEs has been a long-running issue in the media for years. Despite this, not all SMEs have adequate compliance structures in place yet. This is shown by the recent study "Compliance…

Banks are complaining about the increasing, practically unmanageable complexity of regulatory requirements, and about the huge implementation costs that institutions have to bear. However, there…

Two-thirds of CEOs (66%) see more threats facing their businesses today than three years ago.  Just over a quarter (27%) believe global growth will improve over the next 12 months, a decline of…

The European banking union raises high expectations. Its uniform prudential standards are intended to improve bank stability and boost financial market integration, and it is expected to untangle…

The CFS Index, which measures the condition of the German financial sector on a quarterly basis, increased significantly in the last quarter of 2014. It rose by 4 points to 115.4 points and…