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Singapore’s Dy PM launches Global Asia Insurance Partnership,to incubate new risk financing solutions for emerging risks in Asia

“Through GAIP, we aim to produce actionable research insights, develop policy recommendations, There are many structural protection gaps facing Asia, but pandemic risk and climate risk are two critical areas that demand our immediate and collective attention,.” Heng Swee Keat Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies and Minister for Finance,Singapore, said adding that GAIP is expected to commence work in January next year.

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Bumper harvests, healthy stockpiles but coronavirus world is undernourished

More worrying is that while food production and stocks have remained sufficient, household budgets haven’t. Even before the pandemic, the world was hungry. A report published in July by the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization and others estimated almost 690 million people were underfed in 2019 — up by 10 million from the previous year, and by nearly 60 million in five years. Close to 750 million of us, or nearly one in 10, didn’t have reliable access to sustenance.

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SIAC order on Rs 24,713 cr RIL deal not enforceable, binding: Future Retail

Last Sunday, the SIAC passing an interim award in favour of Amazon had asked the Future group to put the deal on hold and said that the deal cannot go through until it finally decides the matter.
“The EA order is not enforceable under the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and is not binding on FRL. Any attempt on the part of Amazon to enforce the EA order shall be resisted by FRL to the fullest extent available under Indian law. FRL is also in the process of taking appropriate legal action to protect its rights,” the Future group firm said.

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Ransomware surge imperils hospitals as pandemic intensifies

Hackers are aware that “health care is the most likely to pay the ransom because their services are critical,” dos Santos said.

“Stopping services means that people will literally be dying.”

For hospitals unable or willing to pay, “it would mean going back to pen and paper, which can cause huge slowdowns,” he added.

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Lloyd’s insurer Apollo to stop underwriting Adani coal mine from Sept. 2021

“We participate in one construction liability policy in respect of Adani Carmichael…this particular policy terminates in September 2021 after which we will no longer provide any insurance cover for this project,” chair of Apollo Syndicate Management Julian Cusack said in the memo.

“We have recently declined to participate in an additional policy relating to the port and rail extension and have agreed that we will not participate in any further insurance policies for risks associated with this project.”

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“SIRC 2020 Re-Mind”:Mumenthaler and Kessler to address the virtual event, Global-Asia Insurance Partnership to be launched

Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies and Minister for Finance, Heng Swee Keat will announce the launch of the Global-Asia Insurance Partnership (GAIP), a new global centre of excellence in risk management in Singapore that is a tripartite partnership amongst regulators, academia and industry

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University will be the research institution partner under the GAIP, to work on studies about the future development and needs of the insurance sector. 
All insurance/reinsurance industry practitioners and media can register for the virtual event free of cost at https://sirc.6connex.com/event/SIRC2020REMIND/login

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