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Mud and rock bury Swiss village after glacier collapse, one person missing
"We've lost our village," Matthias Bellwald, the mayor of Blatten...
Tokio Marine Group sets up a new unit to support green biz
Tokio Marine GX (TMGX) will offer up to $500 million on any single...
Cost-of-living crisis biggest Global Risk: Davos Study
"The short-term risk landscape is dominated by energy, food, debt and disasters," said Saadia Zahidi, a managing director at WEF The cost-of-living crisis is the biggest global risk over the next two years, the World Economic Forum warned Wednesday in a survey...
Electric cars are getting too big and bulky, US safety regulator warns
I’m concerned about the increased risk of severe injury and death for all road users from heavier curb weights and increasing size, power, and performance of vehicles on our roads, including electric vehicles,” Homendy said in remarks delivered Wednesday in...
Catastrophe bond yields soar as disasters abound and rates rise
The increasing threat of losses from disasters make issuing new cat bonds all the more important for the insurance industry, but it might be difficult to find enough investors.Margins on new issuances of catastrophe bonds covering US wind events are now at the highest...
Environment risks dominate in “polycrisis” world – WEF survey
The interplay between climate change impacts, biodiversity loss, food security and natural resource consumption is a dangerous cocktail,” said John Scott, head of Sustainability Risk at Zurich Insurance Group, which partnered on the report with risk strategy group...
U.S. air travel rumbles back to life after FAA computer outage
The cause of the problem with a pilot-alerting system, which delayed thousands of flights in the United States, was unclear, but U.S. officials said they had so far found no evidence of a cyberattack. Washington DC: U.S. flights were slowly resuming departures and a...
WHO backs mask wearing on long flights as new Omicron variant spreads
Passengers should be advised to wear masks in high-risk settings such as long-haul flights, said the WHO's senior emergency officer for Europe, Catherine Smallwood, adding: "this should be a recommendation issued to passengers arriving from anywhere where there is...
Beazley launches industry’s first Cyber Catastrophe Bond
This is the first time that a liquid Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) instrument has been created for cyber catastrophe risks, said Beazley The $45 million bond gives Beazley indemnity against all perils in excess of a $300 million catastrophe event, with the...
China not to include Pfizer Inc’s Covid drug in its insurance scheme
Boxes of Paxlovid are changing hands for as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,313.15), more than 20 times the original price of 2,300 yuan, according to local media reports and social media posts. Beijing has been largely resistant to Western vaccines, but has greenlighted...
Hackers use AI tool to write malicious code
"Cybercriminals are finding ChatGPT attractive. In recent weeks, we're seeing evidence of hackers starting to use it to write malicious code. ChatGPT has the potential to speed up the process for hackers by giving them a good starting point," said Sergey Shykevich,...
Financial inclusion appears to be positively correlated with per capita income growth: IMF
IMF said, "For example, the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana programme in India in 2014, one of the world's largest financial inclusion initiatives to date, is one prominent example of India's national-level commitment to advancing financial inclusion."...