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Aon’s advanced AI-powered supply chain offering to help businesses anticipate & mitigate hidden risks
Using AI and advanced data modelling, the solution analyses...
Insurance loss estimated for outage at AWS can range from $38 million-$581 million, says CyberCube
CyberCube’s analysis shows that the outage is likely to have...
Cuba quietly authorizes euthanasia
Euthanasia and medically assisted suicide, opposed by most religions, sparks huge controversy around the world where just a handful of countries allow the practice and some equate it with murder. The Cuban Roman Catholic Church was not immediately available for...
Number of new Covid cases increased 52% globally in past one month: WHO
WHO said over 118,000 new COVID-19 hospitalisations and over 1600 new intensive care unit (ICU) admissions have been recorded, with an overall increase of 23 per cent and 51 per cent, respectively, globally Geneva: The number of new COVID cases increased by 52 per...
Britain and Switzerland agree wide-ranging financial services trade deal
“It is an agreement based on deference: Swiss firms can operate inside the UK under Swiss rules and UK firms can operate inside Switzerland under UK rules,” UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said. “This is a light-touch, progressive, future-leaning way of...
Global regulators make tackling non-bank leverage a priority for 2024
The G20’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) and IOSCO, a global grouping of securities markets regulators, on Wednesday issued tougher liquidity management guidance for asset managers of open-ended investment funds, adding to existing guidance for money market funds,...
Shipping firms impose surcharges as Red Sea attacks hit global trade
In total, Maersk said a standard 20-foot container travelling from China to Northern Europe now faced an extra charge of $700, consisting of a $200 TDS and $500 PSS. Containers bound for the east coast of North America will be charged $500 each, consisting of the $200...
Shipping costs soar as war and climate risks choke key waterways
This week, provisional chartering rates for a Suezmax tanker to move oil from Iraq to the Mediterranean rose above 90 worldscale points, said shipbrokers. That’s a sharp jump from between 75 to 85 points in provisional bookings made in the past week. These points...
Toyota’s Daihatsu to halt all vehicle shipments, in widening safety scandal
The investigation found that the airbag control units used by Daihatsu in airbag tests for some models were different from the ones used in cars sold to the public, including Toyota’s Town Ace and Pixis Joy models and the Mazda Bongo. Toyota Motor’s Daihatsu unit will...
WHO classifies ‘low’ risk JN.1 coronavirus strain as ‘variant of interest’
The United Nations agency said current vaccines continue to protect against severe disease and death from JN.1 and other circulating variants of the COVID-19 virus Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday classified the JN.1 coronavirus strain as a...
China’s magnitude-6.2 earthquake kills over 100 in impoverished northwest
About 400 people were injured, thousands of buildings collapsed and some infrastructure were damaged, according to state media Beijing: Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for efforts to minimize casualties after an impoverished region in the northwest was hit by an...
Ebix files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, company’s nearly 200 non-US affiliates not included
Ebix has a tie-up with India's BSE for an insurance broking company, BSE Ebix Insurance Broking Private Limited. Ebix holds 40 per cent in the broking unit Insurance software firm and short seller target Ebix Inc. promoted by Indian-American Robin Raina-led technology...