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Xi warns Coronavirus ‘accelerating’, China facing ‘grave situation’,Hong Kong declares an ’emergency’
Coronavirus: 11 people who returned from China under watch in Kerala, Mumbai
Niti to develop National Data Platform
India Inc’s insurance cost to go up as GIC Re hikes reinsurance premiums
Mumbai: India Inc has to shell out a lot more premium within the range of 20-50 per cent in the property segments, as GIC Re has decided to hike its reinsurance premium in as many as 291 occupancies since January 2020.Most of renewals in the Indian market...
Insys founder John Kapoor sentenced to 5 1/2 years for orchestrating opioid scheme
Kapoor and others were accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to doctors across the United States to prescribe the company’s highly addictive oral fentanyl spray, known as Subsys. The bribes were paid in the form of fees for sham speaking engagements that were billed as educational opportunities for other doctors.
Budget 2020:Indian Life Insurance Industry
Indian growth slowdown temporary, expect momentum to improve: IMF chief
New India Assurance settles insider trading case with SEBI, pays over Rs 62 lakh
After a meeting of Sebi’s internal committee in December 2019, New India Assurance paid settlement amount of Rs 62.68 lakh to settle the case through settlement procedure.Consequently, Sebi in a settlement order passed on Thursday said, “The proceedings that may be initiated for the default…are settled.”
Global economic losses from natural disasters top $232 bn in 2019, as the costliest decade on record comes to a close:AON
From a climate perspective, 2019 was the second warmest year on record for land and ocean temperatures since 1851. Notably, record temperatures of 46.0°C were seen in France and 42.6°C in Germany, while the January to May period was the wettest on record in the United States, with 15.71 inches (399 millimeters) of rainfall.
Annual natural Cat loss costs decline again in 2019
Saudi prince may have sent spyware via Whatsapp to hack Bezos’ phone: Probe
Budget 2020:Indian General Insurance Industry
An index based scheme (Parametric Insurance) can be adopted which compensates for the damage caused due to catastrophic event, as per the pre-defined triggers for such events. The premium for the same can be collected along with the property tax and once the claim is triggered, amount can be directly transferred to beneficiary’s Jan Dhan Account linked to the home insurance policy. It will go a long way in bridging the protection gap between the economic losses and insured losses during Nat-Cat events
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.
Top Indian industrialists join hands to fight climate change
Since 1980, nearly 60,000 suicides in India are attributed to warming temperatures, accounting for almost seven percent of the national upward trend in suicide rates.There has been a 150 per cent rise in air pollution-related deaths over the past 20 years and in 2017 alone, India saw 1.2 million deaths due to air pollution.India suffered an economic loss of $37 billion due to climate change in 2018, of which losses due to floods amounted to US $2.8 billion.