Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 209 (19th July 2024)
King Charles has delivered the Labour government's first King's Speech in the House of Lords. Part of the State Opening of Parliament ceremony, the speech marks the start of the parliamentary year.
Keywords:
Friday Reading Edition 209 (19th July 2024)
This week saw the hotly anticipated first King's speech under a new Labour government. Whilst a new Digital Information and Smart Data Bill mopped up some of the elements of the failed UK data protection reform, we also saw a new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill come to the fore. But the missing AI Bill was one of the biggest surprises of the morning.
Keywords:
The King’s Speech - Great British Energy needs to be a catalyst for investment in new technologies Text
Friday Reading Edition 209 (19th July 2024)
KPMG comments on the Great British Energy Bill announced this week as part of the King’s Speech.
Categories:
Keywords:
Friday Reading Edition 208 (12th July 2024)
Learning and development plays a crucial role in readying our industry for the challenges ahead. And we all recognise the need to attract and retain talent to our industry as it modernises and evolves.
Categories:
Keywords:
Friday Reading Edition 208 (12th July 2024)
The risk profession continues to offer inspiring careers. Millennial and Generation Z members of Airmic are ready to embrace the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), contrary to fears of AI taking jobs away or posing an existential threat to humanity
Keywords:
Friday Reading Edition 208 (12th July 2024)
AI and other advanced technologies are changing the way employees work — what they do and how they do it.
Friday Reading Edition 208 (12th July 2024)
The need to attract young talent to the risk management and insurance profession is critical.
Categories:
Keywords:
Friday Reading Edition 207 (5th July 2024)
Follow this live-blog for all you need to know about the new UK government.
Categories:
Keywords:
Friday Reading Edition 207 (5th July 2024)
We find ourselves with a labour government holding the reigns to power today for the first time in 14 years. Will that usher in an ideological change in regulatory direction for insurance leaders to contend with or is the reality that the recent regulatory path of travel sits comfortably with the general positioning of the new political ‘powers that be’?
Categories:
Keywords:
Friday Reading Edition 207 (5th July 2024)
The Scottish National Party has had its worst UK parliamentary election since 2010, projections showed, derailing their push for a new independence referendum as a resurgent Labour Party made gains in former heartlands.
Categories:
Keywords: