The Institute of Risk Management has announced the appointment of David Epstein as non-executive director. Mr Epstein, group ALM and treasury director at Aviva, and a director of subsidiary, Aviva Capital Partners, has over 20 years’ experience in financial services covering investment banking, pensions, insurance and reinsurance.

BIBA has welcomed the rule changes announced by the FCA today in its Policy Statement on residential multi-occupancy buildings.

CREST and IASME have agreed to partner with the National Cyber Security Centre to support the delivery of its new Cyber Incident Exercising scheme. Organisations wishing to join the CIE scheme will be assessed against the NCSC CIE Standard. CREST and IASME will manage the assessment, onboarding, monitoring and offboarding of providers assured under the scheme on behalf of the NCSC.

Aon has announced the launch of its new solution for financial institutions, FI Protect 360. Created in collaboration with a number of London Market insurers, FI Protect 360 is designed to address key operational risks faced by today’s financial institutions encompassing both technology and more traditional risks.

Insurtech MGA Loadsure has partnered with WeatherOptics to bring weather intelligence into its risk calculations.

A study carried out by researchers at UBC Sauder School of Business shows that when CEOs are accountable for performance failures, stock analysts value their companies more highly.