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Companies hit with $1.8 billion cyber losses,six-fold increase in 2020 :Hiscox study

The highest recorded cyber loss was $87.9 million from a financial services firm in the UK.More than 6% of total respondents paid a ransom. Their combined losses came to $381 million.However the positive signs are that twice as many firms responded to a breach by adding new security and spending more on employee training.
There has been a shift in the hackers’ behaviour in the last six to 12 months as they focus more on industries such as energy and manufacturing.

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Coronavirus cases in India climb to 4,40,215, nearly 11,000 recoveries in single day

During the last 24 hours, a total of 10,994 COVID-19 patients have recovered, taking the recovery rate to around 56.38 per cent amongst coronavirus infected patients, an official said.

Of the 312 fresh fatalities reported till Tuesday morning, 113 were from Maharashtra, 58 from Delhi, 37 from Tamil Nadu, 21 from Gujarat, 19 from Uttar Pradesh, 14 from West Bengal, 9 from Haryana, seven each from Rajasthan and Telangana, six from Madhya Pradesh, five each from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, three from Jammu and Kashmir, two each from Bihar and Punjab and one each from Chhattisgarh, Goa, Odisha and Uttarakhand.

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Nikhil Rathi appointed as Chief Executive of UK’s FCA

On 1 April 2013, the FCA became responsible for the conduct supervision of all regulated financial firms and the prudential supervision of those not supervised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).The FCA is the conduct regulator for the UK’s financial markets, over 59,000 financial services firms, and the prudential supervisor for 49,000 firms, setting specific standards for 19,000 firms.

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IFC mobilises $2B in credit capacity from insurers to expand lending to FIs

AXA XL, Aspen Insurance, Everest Insurance®, Liberty Specialty Markets, Munich Re and Tokio Marine HCC are giving IFC the ability to significantly scale up its lending operations to emerging market financial institutions over the next four years.The initiative will allow IFC to increase its medium- and long-term lending to commercial banks and non-bank financial institutions in emerging markets by up to $5 billion.

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