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RISK AND RESILIENCE
Despite the health and economic challenges of COVID-19, less than a
third of risk leaders are “very satisfied” with their progress in bolstering
operational resilience in the past two years. This is one of the findings
from Accenture’s 2021 Global Risk Management Study, which includes
a survey of 725 global risk leaders. Only 49 per cent say they are “fully
capable” of assessing risks associated with their businesses’ adoption
of cloud technology. Fewer believe they are fully capable of assessing
the risks of artificial intelligence (34 per cent), blockchain (32 per cent)
and robotic process automation (28 per cent).
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MORE THAN
250
MILLION
THE RICH
GET RICHER
ROSES ARE PRODUCED
ANNUALLY IN THE US
FOR VALENTINE’S DAY.
As the world navigates a fragile economic
recovery, its billionaires have been rapidly
accumulating wealth, with the 500
richest people adding US$742 billion
(A$1 trillion) in 2021, according to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Tesla’s
Elon Musk tops the list with a total net
wealth of US$236 billion (A$318 billion),
followed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, with
US$197 billion (A$266 billion). Meanwhile,
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth
plummeted by US$6 billion (A$8 billion)
in a matter of hours in October 2021,
after the tech giant came under fire amid
damaging whistleblower reports and
several global outages. Zuckerberg is in
seventh place on the Bloomberg list, with
net wealth estimated at US$121 billion
(A$163 billion).
Source: Society of American Florists
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70,000
FINANCIAL
COMPLAINTS
WERE LODGED WITH THE
AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL
COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY
(AFCA) IN 2020-2021.
Those in dispute with banks,
insurers, super funds,
investment firms and
financial advisers secured
more than A$240 million in
compensation and refunds
after seeking AFCA’s help.
Source: AFCA
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