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Managing Customers: Banks and insurers deploy AI agents to fight fraud and process applications
-Three in five banks and insurers cite customer onboarding among...
Data Centers: AI and cloud computing drive global construction boom
According to market research, up to $7 trillion will be spent on...
Kenyan farmers test insurance to ward off climate-driven hunger
On Monday, a key science report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of growing pressure on food production and people's ability to get enough to eat on a hotter planet, which it said would fuel malnutrition, especially in vulnerable regions like...
Global Population Growth and Sustainable Development
Most of the world’s future population growth will take place in developing countries. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the world has experienced unprecedented population growth. World population continues to grow but is expected to peak around 2100 at a...
Storm Eunice: how forecasters predicted super-strong winds days before it even formed
The improvement in the forecast is partly because of the hugely improved resolution of the supercomputer models. We can now simulate the earth in great detail, in four dimensions (including time). We also just have a better understanding of the science, and how...
Leading with Empathy into the Hybrid Working Future
With the recent influence of the global health crisis, increasing shifts in personal priorities are changing employees' expectations of work culture. Tanay Kediyal, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Allstate Solutions Private Limited (ASPL) shares his views...
Covid-19 pandemic: Era of restrictions is fast coming to an end
Expanding home-testing, improving ventilation in public buildings, increasing efforts to track mutations and developing better vaccines and drugs that can work against a broad range of variants and other diseases are all part of the toolkit. Soumya Swaminathan, chief...
Surety Bond: To Be On a Sure Footing
Rrajesh Sharrma, CEO and Principal Officer, Anand Rathi Insurance Brokers Considering the size of the Indian economy, the market demand for surety insurance will be so huge, it can be another game-changer like agricultural insurance after the introduction of Pradhan...
Cyberbullying a top concern on Safer Internet Day
Young people spend more time online than the rest of the population, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said. an estimated 71 per cent of people aged 15 to 24 using the Internet, compared to just 57 per cent for all other age groups With more children and...
Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over sex designation
But sex designation is not as simple as a glance and then a check of one box or another. Instead, the overwhelming evidence shows that sex is not binary. To put it another way, the terms “male” and “female” don’t fully capture the complex biological, anatomical and...
Teleworking during COVID: Risks, benefits and steps to a ‘new normal’
Without proper planning, organization and health and safety support, teleworking can lead to feelings of isolation, burnout, depression, eye strain, increased alcohol consumption and unhealthy weight gain More than two years since COVID-19 began disrupting office life...
Budget 2022-23: Widening Health Covers
Satish Gidugu, CEO, Medi Assist Healthcare Services There is a need to reduce the GST rates on insurance premiums, allow input credit on GST paid towards employee health insurance and eliminate perquisite tax on employee medical reimbursements The COVID-19 pandemic...