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Risk Management

US expands its reinsurance program,transfers $400 mn in flood risk to capital markets

As part of the agreement, FEMA will pay $50.28 million in premiums for the first year of reinsurance coverage. Additionally, the agreement will cover 3.33 percent of losses for any single flood event with losses between $6 and $9 billion, and 30 percent if that same flood event has losses that rise to $9 to $10 billion.
 

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Aon aligns leadership team, appoints Andersen as President

Most recently, Aon has entered a new phase of its Aon United growth strategy with the rollout of a single colleague mission called the Aon Impact Model, the scaling of its Delivering Aon United client value and sales effectiveness program, the development of the Aon Business Services platform to improve delivery of middle- and back-office client services and the formation of the firm’s New Ventures Group to drive innovation at scale and expand its addressable market.

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How pharma firms are using Blockchain to track down counterfeit drugs

-“The current point-to-point systems infrastructure lacks the ability to keep data in sync across the healthcare supply chain, which ultimately increases the risk of counterfeit, diverted or otherwise illegitimate products,” David Vershure, head of channel and contract management for Roche’s Genentech unit, said in a statement.
-Among the 24 participating companies are Amgen Inc., FedEx Corp., GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis, AmerisourceBergen Corp., Sanofi, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc.

-The World Health Organization estimates that counterfeit medicines worth 73 billion euros ($79.26 billion) are traded annually.

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Tech Mahindra and Virsec collaborate to deliver advanced Cybersecurity Solutions to customers globally

The Virsec Security Platform stops fileless and in-memory advanced application threats that escape detection by conventional security tools. It also protects applications from the inside, against known and unknown zero-day threats. Virsec patented technology maps acceptable application execution, and instantly detects code execution deviations triggered by cyberattacks. This deterministic process detects and blocks application attacks within milliseconds, with precise forensics at every step.

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