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After a year in the job, our editor Lauren Gow reflects on the year that was 2018 and what the year ahead might have in store for Asia-Pacific risk managers. I have now been the editor of StrategicRISK for just over a year. And in that year I have taken very seriously the immense responsibility I have to deliver not only the right content to you as risk managers, but also content that challenges you to rethink, to question and to re-examine the way you look at risk in your business.

Transurban’s troubleshooting guru Karl Davey exudes an air of calm and flexibility that helps him navigate all of the risk’s diversions. With him at the helm, we’re all a little safer. Did you know that in your lifetime you are five times more likely to die being struck by lightning than drowning in a flooded tunnel? Those seemed like terrific odds until arriving at the Cross City Tunnel offices, home to Transurban, during what can only be described as a cataclysmic winter storm.

Risk managers all love a nice long risk document, right? Not so StarHub’s Nigel Tay. Meet the man bringing on-the-ground collaboration, agile process and even fun to corporate risk management. Trust us, you’ll like him. The most striking thing you note when you meet Nigel Tay is that he is fun. Really fun. Corporate risk managers are not always associated with fun. But then, Nigel Tay is not your average corporate risk manager.

Big wins for Aon, Ayala Corporation and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, who were among the highlights at StrategicRISK’s Asia-Pacific Risk Management Awards 2018. Singapore’s Grant Hyatt hotel played host to an awards dinner attended by the great and the good in the region’s risk management community.

Far from being impersonal, Australia’s first fully digital neobank, Xinja, is built for the people. StrategicRISK Asia Pacific editor, Lauren Gow, sat down with chief risk officer David Nichols to talk about a banking revolution.

The rapid migration of business and personal information into the digital stratosphere has largely taken the world by surprise. Global interconnected technology platforms have created a base not only for businesses to bound into previously untapped markets at the touch of a button, but also given criminals a new and arguably easier way to operate. The amalgamation of both has exposed the vulnerability of large companies such as Ashley Madison in the US and TalkTalk and Carphone Warehouse in the UK to costly, high-pro le cyber attacks. Experts say the challenges facing risk managers in 2016 are very different from the TJX and Heartland hacks that put data breaches on the map 10 years ago.