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Ecuador contracts first parametric insurance for 10k climate-vulnerable farmers, with Germany, UNDP, ISF and IDF support
The two parametric products — for extreme rainfall and drought-risk...
AIA Australia deploys SCOR’s VClaims
Tracey Crowe, General Manager for Claims and Underwriting at AIA...
British and American ships tentatively return to the Red Sea
Six ships linked to the US and UK have successfully transited the area without coming under attack since Jan. 19, when the Houthis said they would stop targeting vessels associated with those countries, according to the Joint Maritime Information Center, which...
Oceans are warming four times faster as earth traps more energy
Global ocean temperatures hit record highs for 450 days straight between 2023 and early 2024, which helped fuel massive hurricanes. While some of this warmth came from El Niño, the study showed that 44% of the record warmth was caused by oceans absorbing heat at a...
World’s richest people lose $108 bn after tech startup DeepSeek selloff
DeepSeek’s dark-horse entry into the AI race, which it says cost just $5.6 million to develop, is a challenge to Silicon Valley’s narrative that massive capital spending is essential to developing the strongest models. That delivered a serious blow to billionaires...
DeepSeek hit by cyberattack as users flock to Chinese AI startup
The startup earlier in the day was also hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple’s App Store in the United States Chinese startup DeepSeek said Monday it will temporarily limit registrations due to a...
Auditors get tougher guidelines on judging firms’ environmental claims
The move by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) and the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) comes as more companies are pushed to disclose data as part of efforts to fight climate change International auditors have...
Despite Trump order, abandoning DEI could land companies in legal trouble
“When companies are sued by women or people of color and they're held liable for discrimination … the Trump administration can't save them and nothing in this executive order can save them," said Jason Solomon, director of the National Institute for Workers' Rights, a...
LA wildfires may use up over 30% of Cat budgets of Europe’s largest reinsurers for 2025
The impact of the fires on European reinsurers’ natural catastrophe budgets will clearly be significant, but the implications for their earnings and capital are not likely to be material. Paris/London: The recent Los Angeles wildfires may use up over 30% of the...
Puneet Swani to head Aon’s APAC Talent Solutions
Puneet Swani, Head, Talent Solutions for Asia Pacific Swani is an experienced leader specialising in human resources consulting spanning more than twenty-five years. He joins Aon having had a distinguished career at both Hewitt Associates and Mercer, most recently...
China guides mutual funds, insurers to invest more in stocks
China will commence the second stage of a trial program for insurers’ long-term equity investments in the first half of this year, with an amount of at least 100 billion yuan ($13.7 billion), Wu also said at the briefing. China is guiding local mutual funds and...
South Korea to change airport design after deadly Jeju air crash
Runway end safety areas at nine airports will be lengthened to 240 meters (787 feet), or the structure holding the so-called localizer — an instrument used to guide landing plane — will be changed to an easily breakable material, Korea’s transport ministry said in a...