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US rules out renewal of exemption from sanctions on Russian Iranian oil
On March 5, the US issued a 30-day sanctions waiver to India,...
Iran offers proposal allowing ships to exit Oman side of Hormuz free of attack, source says
Hundreds of tankers and other ships and 20,000 seafarers have been...
Heavy rainfall unleashes deadly floods across Southeast Asia
Total number of confirmed dead in Vietnam is now 91.Flooding in southern Thailand has killed at least 13 people and swamped around 800,000 households and rubber- and palm oil-producing areas. In Peninsular Malaysia, more than 16,000 people have been displaced, while...
Blackstone owned Ace Insurance Brokers make 3 sr level appointments
Blackstone owned Ace Insurance Brokers has made three senior level appointments. The company has appointed Arvind Laddha from Mercer as president. Puneet Kumar, former CFO at Insurance Dekho has joined the company as CFO.Puneet Khurana,previously group head of HR at...
95 pc families of AI 171 crash received interim compensation, says Air India CEO
About 70 of the families have also received the ex gratia payment from the AI 171 memorial trust, with another 50 or so in the process of being dispersed, and we continue to reach out to the families of those affected, both as Air India and as Tata Sons, to offer the...
Tankers rate hit new high amid US sanctions
Figures from analytics firm Kpler suggest that close to 48 million barrels of Rosneft and Lukoil crude — mostly Urals and ESPO grades — are currently in transit or beginning to load. That includes roughly 50 tankers pointing toward China and India, but also others...
IRDAI chairman Seth meets Indian reinsurers
Ajay Seth, chairman,IRDAI ``It was an introductory meeting and had no specific agenda. Seth wanted to know the state of affair in the Indian reinsurance industry,’’ said one of the CEOs who had attended the meeting Mumbai: After meeting life and non-life insurers...
Former Lloyd’s CEO loses top AIG’s $17 million job over office romance
John Neal, former CEO, Lloyd's Recent instances have felled CEOs at companies including Nestlé SA, Kohl’s Corp. and Astronomer, where Andy Byron lost the top job in July after being caught on a stadium “kiss cam” with the firm’s chief people officer at a Coldplay...
Lloyd’s investigates its former CEO John Neal
John Neal,former chief executive officer,Lloyd's Lloyd’s Chairman Charles Roxburgh “became aware of market speculation concerning possible historic breaches of policy” and initiated an independent fact-finding review into Neal’s conduct in October, the firm said in a...
GIC Re pays Rs 1,445 crore of dividend to govt in FY24-25
(L to R) - V. Balkrishna, CFO, GIC Re, Parshant Kumar Goyal, joint secretary, Department of Financial Services, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Hitesh Joshi, executive director, additional charge of CMD, GIC Re , Jayashri B, executive director, GIC Re, at the...
Cyber attacks,Economic Slow down,Business Interruption ranked as top Indian business risks: Aon
“As cyber attacks and data privacy risks continue to rise, both in frequency and impact, Indian organisations must not only strengthen their resilience but adapt quickly to these accelerated challenges'' Rishi Mehra, CEO of India, for Aon Mumbai: Indian firms ranked...
AI driving direct shifts in global insurance industry, says Swiss Re
Global insurance premiums are set to grow by 2.3% in real terms in 2026 and 2027. The non-life sector is forecast to see global real premium growth easing to 1.7% before recovering to 2.5% in 2027. For insurers, it means more opportunities in engineering, property and...