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Cyber Insurance: Ransomware remains biggest driver of claims
``Asian businesses with overseas presence should also consider...
Heat, Air Quality & Insurance Costs: How climate change is affecting our homes – and our health
Ang Li, Melbourne School of Population and Global This year, ten...
Cryptocurrency: Covering Losses
Lloyd’s recently announced a new policy to insure against losses stored on certain cryptocurrency wallets. Until the broader insurance market catches up with the rise of cryptocurrency and such insurance becomes more commonly used, most policyholders will need to look...
2023 Risk landscape: Swiss Re’s new Perspectives
Jérôme Haegeli, Group Chief Economist "A slower and more cautious phase of the central bank policy rate hiking cycle has begun amid inflation peaking, financial stability concerns and inflationary recessions on the horizon. Still, the overall direction remains...
Budget-2023-24: Tax incentive to promote Home Insurance
Rakesh Jain, CEO, Reliance General Insurance In spite of pandemic, the health insurance penetration in our country is very low. Due to such a low coverage, the cost of insurance becomes high. In order to bring down its cost, GST rate should be reduced to 5% from 18%....
Budget-2023-24:Zero-rated GST for protection products
Vighnesh Shahane, MD & CEO, Ageas Federal Life Insurance The insurance industry wish-list for the annual Budget has been largely the same for the last four-five years with the aim of driving insurance penetration in the country. A few of our recommendations...
Key risk trends in 2023:Potential Recession, Cyber and ESG
Plunging growth rates, surging inflation, the energy crisis, continuing stock market volatility and ongoing supply chain issues are monitored closely by D&O underwriters as they could cause liquidity and profitability squeezes in many sectors and fuel rising...
Climate change & Disaster Risk: Investing in Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based solutions are defined by the UN Environnment Assembly resolution 5/5 as "actions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems which address social, economic and...
Overhauling Regulations: Time for spurring long-term sustainable growth
Unless the existent issue of muted demand for insurance, especially life insurance products, is not acknowledged and addressed by the regulator and the industry, such supply-side proposals alone will not be adequate to spur sustainable growth, says a report by Emkay...
India’s GIFT City aims to take On financial hubs in Singapore and Dubai
Modi’s government has offered an array of incentives, including a 100% tax holiday for a decade to businesses that set up within the hub’s International Financial Services Center, or IFSC. Rules are being tweaked to encourage Indian companies to lease ships and...
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill: Privacy at Risk
There’s no Great Internet Firewall in India. But the state’s growing desire for informational dominance is starting to rattle firms of all sizes and hues. After Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp separately sued the government, SnTHostings, a Pune-based...
Climate justice gets harder as world population passes 8 billion
These are also among the countries most vulnerable to climate impacts, and most in need of climate finance. In sub-Saharan Africa, where some 738 million people already live without adequate food supplies, the population is projected to jump by 95% by mid-century,...