General Insurance Article - FERMA launch 1st Certification for Risk Managers

 FERMA has marked the occasion at the opening of its 2015 Risk Management Forum in Venice today with the award of Founder Certification to individuals in the risk management community who have been responsible for the creation, development and initial testing of the essential elements of Certification. They will be ambassadors forrimap®. FERMA intends to open applications for Certification in early 2016, with the first awards expected in the spring.

  

 At the launch, FERMA board member Michel Dennery, Chair of the FERMA Certification Steering Committee, said:

 "Today, there is a strong expectation from stakeholders about risk management; that is why we have created the first high level pan-European recognition of the profession of risk management that will respond to these expectations."

  

 Prof. Karel Van Hulle, Chairman of the Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group of EIOPA, welcomed the launch of rimap®. He said: "The financial crisis showed clearly the need for good risk management. It is in the interest of all stakeholders that firms attach great importance to the timely identification, evaluation and management of their risks and to the mitigation of those risks.

  

 Risk management should have a higher status in our educational institutions. I welcome the fact that FERMA has taken up this challenge and I hope that the initiative will be successful."