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Risk Management

Sitharaman may announce the merger of 3 PSU gen insurers in Budget 2020

“Though, the roadmap for the merger of  the three companies are yet to be made public by the ministry of finance(MoF), it seems, it will be announced in the next week Budget. The actual process of merger may take one year after the Budgetary announcement on Feb 1,’’ said MoF sources adding that the way, MoF sought approvals of the boards of three companies hurriedly, indicate some major announcement about the merger in the Budget 2020.

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Epidemics and equities: What the coronavirous means for markets

For global corporations, Wuhan is an important hub. Of about 2,000 cities in China with factories and other facilities in Bloomberg’s supply chain database, the city ranks 13th, with about 500 facilities. The province of Hubei has 1,016, making it seventh of 32 such jurisdictions. US-based companies have 44 facilities there, and European ones about 40, the data show. Many plants are in the auto and transportation industries, and big names include PepsiCo Inc. and Siemens AG.

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Real-time payments platforms have increased fraud losses for 4 out of 5 APAC Banks:Survey

“While the convenience of real-time payments is great news for customers, increasingly, banks have zero time to clear a transaction or payment. AI can’t slow down the clock, but it can help create systems that are radically quicker to recognize a transaction that smells likely to be fraudulent,” said Dan McConaghy, president of FICO in Asia Pacific.
“Banks will need to move beyond passwords and OTPs and add biometrics, device telemetry and customer behavior analytics to keep up with the changing payments landscape,” he said.

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EU privacy regulators expected to raise fines under GDPR data protection rules

Regulators in France, Germany and Austria levied the biggest fines so far, while the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K. topped the list for the number of data breaches notified to their authorities, the survey by law firm DLA Piper found. France’s data protection commission, the CNIL, last January slapped Google with a 50 million-euro fine over transparency, information and consent failures.

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