Despite the increasing uncertainty with regards to the financial hit to industries, Russell Group have modelled the exposure for companies and countries. In the first of these articles, we take a look at the impact on shipping.

A long-term shift that is occurring because of the pandemic, is a fundamental restructuring of the economy that is underpinned by“transportation layer”.

The current COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant disruption in our lives but also is accelerating a huge amount of trends that were present in society. In this article, we will be identifying three of these trends.

While some cyber-criminal opportunists are already exploiting the current environment to make money, there are cyber-war strategists who are modelling the impact that a large-scale cyber hack could inflict on a society crippled by COVID-19.

If Covid-19’s impact on health systems and economies around the globe is already quite clear, there is little we do know about its potential impact on the world’s politics afterwards.

As the Tokyo Olympics are suspended for a year, we analyse the insurance implications.

Cargo insurers can expect to face a large exposure value after the recent tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman.

The growing dominance of the leasing companies is not an anomaly but rather part of the changing landscape in the financing, ownership and maintenance of new aircraft.

The shift from the tangible to the intangible - from goods to services - is happening all across the economy. How does the world of risk and insurance adjust to this new reality?

The top ten Chinese companies, with combined revenues of almost $1.5 trillion will be exposed to an estimated $122 billion of connected loss exposures from coronavirus according to Russell Group.