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China declares war on cryptocurrency mining, stirring wider fear

China’s Inner Mongolia, the autonomous region, a favourite among the industry because of its cheap power, also banned new digital coin projects, according to a draft plan posted on the Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission’s website February 25.
The aim is to constrain growth in energy consumption to about 1.9 per cent in 2021.

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Munich Re partners with Google Cloud and Allianz for Cyber Insurance

The joint offering, achieved by linking technology with insurance know-how and facilitating the sharing of in-depth data, brings a new level of maturity to the market.

Munich Re and AGCS have developed the Cloud Protection + policy exclusively for Google Cloud customers.

The policy will initially be offered to Google Cloud customers in the United States and will be available to organisations with revenues of between US$ 500m and US$ 5bn. At a later stage, the scope will be extended to include organisations in other revenue segments and countries.

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Insurtech platform premiums to exceed $556 Billion globally in 2025, as AI drives market transformation

Insurtech to Represent 8% of Global Insurance Premiums by 2025
The top 5 leading vendors were found to be:Ping An,Axa,Munich Re,Humana and Allianz.

The report identified that weakened customer loyalty, and the driving down of premiums by increased competition and the shift to digital will cause seismic change in insurance over the next five years.

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Machine learning could aid mental health diagnoses: Study

Patients with depression or psychosis rarely experience symptoms of purely one or the other illness. Historically, this has meant that mental health clinicians give a diagnosis of a ‘primary’ illness, but with secondary symptoms. Making an accurate diagnosis is a big challenge for clinicians and diagnoses often do not accurately reflect the complexity of individual experience or indeed neurobiology.

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Specialty insurer and reinsurer SiriusPoint launches with over $3bn in capital

“We aspire to be a disruptive force in the industry and drive technology innovation – with skilled underwriting at the core of everything we do. We have set a goal to challenge the status quo and define new ways of conducting business with diversity of thought and expertise. I am very excited about our future. We are building a company and a culture we can be proud of.”

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