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Extreme Weather in Europe and Asia Sparks Wildfires, Floods

The changes are leading to increases in financing for climate mitigation and resilience. The Manila-based Asian Development Bank said this month that financing for this purpose increased 21 percent to a record $4.5 billion in 2017. Climate financing by the world’s six largest multilateral development banks reached a seven-year high of $35.2 billion in 2017, up 28 percent from the previous year

Asian life insurance regulations are still ‘rules-based’: Milliman

The different markets are at very different stages of evolution—in general economic, social and demographic terms and in respect of the maturity of their various life insurance industries. Consequently, the insurance regulatory regimes vary significantly across the markets, often making it difficult for insurers to keep track of how the regulations change across the region.

XL Catlin to build World’s first On-Demand Cyber Insurance Solution with Slice ICS

According to Greg Hendrick, president of XL Catlin’s Property & Casualty operations, “Slice’s ICS(Insurance Cloud Services) platform gives us the speed to market, scalability, and reliable on-demand experience that will empower our clients to move faster and more confidently knowing digital assets are protected by innovative technology, insurance, and claims processes.”

 Digit Insurance raises a record $44 Million in the second round of funding

Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Holdings has invested second round of capital ($45 million) in Digit Infoworks, a parent company for Digit insurance of which a significant part of the investment ($44 million) is given to Digit Insurance.The funding is the largest round in the Indian general insurance ecosystem. This investment brings Digit’s total funding to $94 million.

Partnering with World Bank to close Protection Gap

The economic progress many developing countries are making is put at risk when a catastrophe hits. If the nation is lacking appropriate protection, the impacts from a natural disaster typically mean that the government’s limited financial resources will have to be directed toward disaster response and away from further investments in education, healthcare and infrastructure