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Lloyd’s first Digital Syndicate Ki goes live, announces list of broker trading partners

The creation of Ki was first announced in May 2020. Ki aims to significantly reduce the amount of time taken for brokers to place their follow capacity.

Ki’s algorithm, developed with support from University College London, will evaluate Lloyd’s policies and automatically quote for business through an always available digital platform, built by Google Cloud and accessed directly by brokers.

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Europe to lift Boeing 737 MAX grounding in January, follows US action

“We wanted to carry out a totally independent analysis of the safety of this aircraft, so we performed our own checks and flight tests,” Executive Director Patrick Ky told the Paris Air Forum, an online aviation conference hosted by La Tribune.

“All these studies tell us that the 737 MAX can return to service. We have started to put in place all the measures,” he said. “It is likely that in our case we will adopt the decisions, allowing it to return to service, some time in January.”

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Aon develops $70mn in alternative capital capacity to transfer systemic cyber risk

The cover allows for limits of up to USD 70 million and will protect against increasing cyber loss aggregations on re/insurers’ balance sheets. The product is structured to protect the cedent from the effects of catastrophic cyber market losses stemming from events such as self-propagating malware or wiperware, distributed denial of service, a significant cloud outage or certificate revocation.

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Nasdaq to buy financial fraud detection firm Verafin for $2.75 billion

“The problem of detecting money laundering and fraud hasn’t been solved very well yet,” Valerie Bannert-Thurner, senior vice president and head of sell-side and buy-side solutions, market technology at Nasdaq, said in an interview. “With our acquisition we are doubling down on our belief this as an area that is being disrupted and where we can have a big impact.”
Up to $2 trillion is laundered globally each year, representing up to 5% of global GDP, according to the United Nations.

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