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Chinese big data industry boosts futuristic start-ups
One of the systems being supported by the big data industry is a smart judiciary assistant that can quickly scan through past judgments and case details to pull out relevant legal points, helping judges to arrive at decisions much faster.The project, being piloted in Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou, can also help citizens know if they are likely to win a case.”If you are hit (in a road accident) and you want to take the case to court, with the smart assistant you can get an idea if you will win the case,” said He Yuan, general manager of China Big Data, one of the biggest big data companies in the area.
Car sales grow marginally by 0.38%, passenger vehicles up 1.6% in October
Google hears protesters, changes sexual harassment policies
Standard Club Asia and Ping An P&C Insurance collaborate to underwrite P&I risks in China
Claims against electric scooter firms pile due to deaths & injuries
Electric scooters have appeared in more than 100 cities worldwide with the startups aiming to usher in a new, environmentally friendly era of micro transportation. The rapid rise of the scooter revolution has been plagued by controversy, complaints and concussions. Citing fears over public safety, officials in some cities, including San Francisco and Santa Monica, have temporarily banned electric scooters and filed criminal complaints against the companies behind them for operating without a business permit. Some frustrated vigilante residents have tossed scooters into the ocean, buried them in the sand and even set them on fire
Stronger global financial system, but new vulnerabilities emering since crisis
RenaissanceRe to acquire Tokio Millennium Re in $1.5 billion deal
Kevin O’Donnell, president and CEO of RenaissanceRe, said the deal will increase his company’s scale, broaden its reach and provide a deeper customer base. O’Donnell thanked State Farm for agreeing to broaden its relationship with RenaissanceRe.
Tokio Marine Holdings President and Group CEO Tsuyoshi Nagano said selling TMR will allow Tokio Marine Group to “focus on its primary insurance businesses globally, whilst strengthening its relationship” with RenaissanceRe.
China’s Biggest Insurer, Ping An, Plans $2B IPO of Health Tech Unit
Ping An Healthcare Technology covers the medical data of more than 800 million Chinese citizens, its parent company’s deputy chief executive officer, Jessica Tan, told investors in November last year. It has been able to help local governments in 250 Chinese cities reduce medical insurance expenditures an average 10 percent by preventing fraud, Tan said at the time.
Insurers rank Amazon as the world’s most potentially disruptive platform
Striking partnerships is seen as a way of overcoming these, with 90% of the respondents saying this will also be an important opportunity for insurers’ distribution strategies.However, there is no guarantee that platforms’ partners of choice will be today’s primary insurers, with 90% of the respondents anticipating all risks to be passed onto reinsurers.
DeMo led to formalisation of economy, expanded tax base, says Arun Jaitley
DGCA to Jet, SpiceJet: Address sensor-related issues with Boeing 737 MAX
The latest directive follows advisories issued by US watchdog Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing regarding the B 737 MAX planes after the crash of a Lion Air aircraft in Indonesia last month.Currently, Jet Airways and SpiceJet fly Boeing 737 MAX planes in India. Together, there are at least six such aircraft with the two carriers.
Mastercard, Visa losing market share to domestic payments networks: Jaitley
Jaitley said RuPay’s total transactions had leapt to 84.3 billion rupees ($1.16 billion) as of September, from 11 billion rupees before demonetisation. Total transactions done using UPI had jumped to 598 billion rupees ($8.26 billion) from 500 million rupees in October 2016, around the time it was launched
Hurricane Michael to hit US economy by $15bn: Aon
Digital assistants, social media to be key for banking sector by 2022: Report
The research, in which over 300 banks participated globally, found that respondents see open banking APIs (application programming interface) as the top technology for the future of innovation, with it being stronger than ’emerging’ areas such as machine learning, chatbots and RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
Munich Re returns to profit in Q3, affirms 2018 guidance
FRANKFURT: German reinsurer Munich Re returned to profit in the third quarter and affirmed its guidance for 2018, recovering from a spate of natural catastrophes a year ago. Net profit came to 483 million euros ($553 million), it said on Wednesday,...