24-25 May 2012, Hilton Malta

Risk managers with European companies currently operate in a very difficult environment that is dominated by three key factors: a rapid pace of change, acute competition for growth in high risk emerging markets and ever more and often conflicting regulation.

For this reason the fourth Malta International Risk & Insurance Congress will bring together a group of leading European and international experts in economics and finance, risk management and transfer to identify the big challenges and risks that face European corporations currently, and explore how these risks can be best measured and managed and ultimately transferred.

This year’s event will focus on five key areas:

Supply chain risk - How should European corporations manage their global supply chain challenges more effectively and how can corporate risk managers work more effectively with their risk transfer partners to better manage this critical risk? 

Global Programmes - How should risk and insurance managers with European and international corporations work with their brokers, re/insurers and professional advisers to ensure that cross-border risks are cost-effectively managed and insured in a truly compliant way? 

The fitness of the European insurance industry - what impact will the evolving European financial crisis have upon the ability and willingness of the leading insurance and reinsurance groups to take on industrial risks?

Captive management and Solvency II - How could and should captives be used to maximise risk capital? How can captives be used to incubate difficult and emerging risks? What must European risk and insurance managers do to ensure that their captives are compliant with the new rules within Solvency II? How can they most effectively work with their supervisors to ensure that they are regulated in a proportionate manner and how can capital be most effectively organised and managed to deliver the optimal result for European captive owners?

The effective management of emerging risk - What are the key emerging risks that risk managers will have to deal with in 2012 and beyond and what are the best risk transfer techniques and tools available for dealing with them?

By focusing upon supply chain risks and the most effective use of global programmes, captives and emerging risks, this event will enable risk and insurance managers to identify the key risks created by global trade and expansion and the best strategies and techniques to manage and transfer those risks in an increasingly regulated environment.

This will therefore be a must attend event for any European or international risk manager who works for a company that has cross-border exposures, and executives of brokers, captives managers, insurers, reinsurers and professional advisory firms who focus upon pan-European and international markets.