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Cybercrime causing global economic damage of almost US$10 tn,1% of cyber risks currently insured: Munich Re
Claudia Strametz, who leads Munich Re's business for Germany and...
Soteria Surveyors & Loss Adjusters enters associate agreement with Charles Taylor Marine Technical Services in Qatar and India
The associateship will ensure a rapid, consistent and expert...
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...
Red Sea shipping costs rising after Houthis target more commercial vessels
War risk premiums have risen this week to between 0.1%-0.15% to 0.2% of the value of a ship, from 0.07% last week, according to market estimates on Tuesday. While various discounts would be applied, this still translates into tens of thousands of dollars of additional...
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...
Google’s court loss to Epic Games may cost billions but final outcome years away
Epic Games will now have a chance to submit a court filing on how it wants Google’s Play Store to be fixed — potentially putting at risk what Wells Fargo estimates is $10 billion in annual revenue from app sales and in-app purchases for the tech giant Google’s...
Reinsurer Scor made aware of attempted fraud
“Scor urges you to be extremely vigilant and not to respond without prior verification to any payment request made by email, telephone or social networks. The aim of these fraudsters is to improperly collect personal data or to solicit a bank transfer or electronic...
T-shirt weather in December is a sign of what winter has in store
“Due to this year’s El Niño being quite strong, its influence should be apparent,” commercial forecasting firm NatGasWeather said in a note to clients this week. With temperatures worldwide smashing records earlier in 2023, “this exceptionally warm global background...
Korea sees risks to financial firms from overseas property
The message comes after the country’s pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers plowed billions of dollars into properties and risky real estate loans across the globe in the run up to the pandemic, leaving them under scrutiny as losses start to pile up....
China offers insurance to rubber producers to encourage planting, output
The scheme for producers in Hainan and Yunnan provinces, the main rubber producing regions, will stabilize producers’ income and increase planting acreage to boost the country’s rubber production, according to a joint statement by the finance ministry, agriculture...
Global healthcare benefit cost increases projected to largely continue into 2024, WTW survey finds
“The high cost of new medical technologies is a key reason for the persistently high trend. Furthermore, in some regions, ongoing geopolitical conflicts and resulting displaced populations have negatively affected medical costs due to an increased need for care and...
Google’s Epic legal defeat threatens $200 billion app store industry
The loss — handed down by a San Francisco jury on Monday — is a blow to the two companies’(Google and Epic Games Inc) business model in apps, where they charge commissions of as much as 30 per cent to software developers who typically have few other options. Google’s...