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Insurers should learn to innovate using powerful Digital Public Infrastructure platform: New IRDAI chairman Seth
Ajay Seth, chairman,IRDAI ``We see the Accounts Aggregator...
Income growth, demographics and awareness push Indians to opt for finances over physical assets: Goldman Sachs
This growth, according to the Goldman Sachs report, will translate...
Investors richer by Rs 2 lakh cr as Sensex scales 71,000-peak
Optimistic trends in global markets after the US Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged and signalled rate cuts next year along with continuous foreign fund inflows have been fuelling the rally in stocks Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) bought...
Decision on old pension scheme to be taken in next budget session: Maharashtra CM in assembly
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde ''The state government is positive towards the demand of the state employees who went on strike today on reviving Old pension Scheme(OPS). We need some time to study the Subodh Kumar committee's recommendations. Additional...
US regulators add artificial intelligence to potential financial system risks
Janet Yellen,Treasury Secretary ,US The Financial Stability Oversight Council, which comprises top financial regulators and is chaired by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, flagged the risks posed by AI for the first time in its annual financial stability report It also...
Irdai to collect larger socio-economy data to push insurance penetration: Member
B C Patnaik, Member (Life) The rising customer expectations requires the insurers to work towards shorter processing time, doorstep delivery, niche and customized products to ensure more and more customer engagement,Tablesh Pandey, managing director, Life Insurance...
Modi seeks to revive hinterland finance hub with new sweeteners
New rules that will likely take effect in April next year will allow direct equity listing of Indian firms at GIFT City – those that aren’t already listed at exchanges in India – K Rajaraman, chairperson, International Financial Services Regulatory Authority (IFSCA),...
Irdai chief stresses spreading of natural calamity covers in high-risk regions
Debasish Panda, Chairman,Irdai, is addressing an international seminar on ``Enhancing Insurance Inclusivity & Bridging the Protection Gap in India’ organised by National Insurance Academy in Mumbai Releasing the report, Irdai Chairman Debasish Panda said spreading...
Most life insurance companies buck rallying market trend on new norms on surrender value of policies
According to a draft released Wednesday, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority has proposed a much higher surrender value on non-par insurance products and made a few changes in the way surrender charges have been calculated. Now, there will be a premium...
Tesla recalls over 2 million vehicles in US fitted with its Autopilot
Tesla said in a recall filing that Autopilot’s software system controls “may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse” and could increase the risk of a crash. Tesla is recalling just over 2 million vehicles in the United States fitted with its Autopilot advanced...
Crypto, insurance-linked and trend hedge funds most popular – Preqin
Hedge funds making use of algorithms to catch market trends, or commodity trading advisers saw $13.1 billion of net cash inflows, Preqin said. Niche strategies, which make up 2% of the industry (by assets), saw a net $11 billion in inflows during the same time frame,...
Infrastructure faces $600 billion hit in worst-case climate shift – study
The researchers describe this worst-case scenario in terms of governments moving late, or unexpectedly, to impose taxes on carbon emissions. Those abrupt moves would drive an inflation-fueling price shock that would see interest rates rise, impacting the net-asset...