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West Asia conflict: India faces 2.5 million poverty risk, UN warns
On trade and supply chain disruptions, UNDP country-level analysis...
Global Assignments:Blending family wellbeing,cultural adaptation and social integration
"When we think about mobility strategies, the focus should not only...
Managing Customers: Banks and insurers deploy AI agents to fight fraud and process applications
-Three in five banks and insurers cite customer onboarding among top reasons for AI agent adoption,-33% of firms are actively developing proprietary AI agents in-house, though only 10% have deployed at scale,-Nearly half of banks and insurers are creating new jobs to...
Data Centers: AI and cloud computing drive global construction boom
According to market research, up to $7 trillion will be spent on data centers by 2030 – a huge sum driven largely by technology companies in the US and China, while Europe lags a few paces behind. The tech industry’s big three, Amazon, Microsoft and Google Cloud,...
Changing Asian Risks: Increasing Competition,Economic Slowdown and Cyber Threats reshape business landscape
“Cyber Attacks/Data Breach” remains the number one risk across Asia. However, in 2025 “Increasing Competition” and “Exchange Rate Fluctuation” have risen sharply, reflecting the region’s dynamic markets and heightened exposure to global financial volatility, finds out...
Reimagining Insurance:AI set to unlock next $4 billion profit opportunity in India
India’s Insurtech ecosystem is at a sizeable scale, with cumulative valuations crossing USD 15.8 billion and revenues growing reaching USD 0.9 billion in 2024 - a 10x increase since 2019. The sector has 2 unicorns, 8 players between USD 100 million to USD 1 billion...
India Retirement Index Study: Balancing finance, health, and emotion
Sumit Madan, MD and CEO, Axis Max Life said, “IRIS 5.0 signals a clear shift towards smarter and more holistic retirement planning. Today’s consumers are showing greater health consciousness, higher product awareness, and sustained financial confidence. As health...
Demographic Transition: India’s Emerging Silver Economy
The approach towards elderly support that prioritises family and community-led initiatives while ensuring financial security, digital literacy training, long-term care insurance, digital healthcare access, assistive technologies, and engagement platforms are crucial...
Beyond Balance Sheet: Strategic role of CFOs in insurance industry
True leadership in finance is not just about preserving value, it is about having the courage to create it. Today, the insurance CFO operates at a rare intersection where capital meets complexity and strategy meets disruption. In an era of heightened volatility and...
India’s Cloudburst Challenges:Insurance gaps & Future safeguards
The entire Himalayan belt is increasingly vulnerable to cloudbursts, flash floods, landslides, and potential glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), all driven by changing monsoon patterns and accelerated warming in the region. These risks are not onlybecoming more...
Aerospace Industry: Facing strong supply chain headwinds
“Airlines depend on a reliable supply chain to operate and grow their fleets efficiently. Now we have unprecedented waits for aircraft, engines and parts and unpredictable delivery schedules. Together these have sent costs spiralling by at least $11 billion for this...
WHO: Widespread resistance to common antibiotics worldwide
“Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO, Director-General One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people...