Indian News
PhonePe envisions opportunity ahead across UPI, lending, insurance, ONDC
"I think for the mission PhonePe is on, which is solving for at-scale financial inclusion and digitization, the move...
India’s Retail Health Insurance profitable, to touch $25 billion in next 5 years: Avendus Capital Study
Anshul Agarwal, managing director and Co-head, Consumer, Financial Institutions Group (FIG) & Business Services,...
UIDAI deliberates on five focus areas including ‘Ease of Living’
The five core areas are – resident centricity, expanding the usage of Aadhaar, security and privacy, continuous...
International News
Leading reinsurers and Aon join hands to implement Open Exposure Data, to reduce costs and increase transparency
The Open Exposure Data Standard will also lower barriers of entry for model developers – including commercial vendors,...
Bermuda (Re)insurers see improved pricing, performance in 2023
Market pricing surged at the January 2023 reinsurance renewal, shifting to a true hard market in property and some...
Considering downgrading Covid-19 to same category as seasonal influenza: Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida
Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister,Japan Currently, Covid is given the second rank which is equal to tuberculosis and avian...
B’desh asks Russia not to send cargo through ships under US sanctions
His comments came weeks after Moscow last month sent a ship to deliver equipment for Bangladesh’s Rooppur nuclear...
Briefs
Tata AIA Life Insurance expands new fund Offering Suite
Tata AIA Life Insurance (Tata AIA) has announced range of new funds including Emerging Opportunity Fund, that will...
Ambulance Facility at Toll Plazas
Over 900 Ambulances have been deployed by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) at a gap of 50km or at toll...
Interviews
“Biodiversity provides medicine and food of good quality and fights against climate risk, it makes sense to protect it”
Why is biodiversity important for AXA? If we take a cold review, $33 trillion is the estimated monetary value of goods...
“Millennial buyers and the maturity of digital tools will bring about profound change in insurance distribution models”
How do you see the situation triggered by the Covid-19 Pandemic and its extensive impacts on insurers? The...
“Traditional products will become simpler and standardized,the demand will be more for innovative products to cover emerging risks”
How do you see the broad trends in the Indian general insurance industry? The Industry has been growing at...
Articles
Cyber Insurance: Crucial For Digital World
Ransomware attacks, in which hackers gain control of files and data to extract financial gain, continue to be the...
Outlook 2023: Negotiating a Hard Reinsurance Market
Shankar Garigiparthy,CEO & Country Manager, India Reinsurers have been supporting the Indian market for many...
Cryptocurrency: Covering Losses
Lloyd’s recently announced a new policy to insure against losses stored on certain cryptocurrency wallets. Until the...
Data
Cyber crime cases in Mumbai rise by more than 63% in 2022: Report
Post the COVID pandemic, crimes such as part-time job fraud, cheating in the name of cryptocurrency investment,...
India Inc may dole out 9.8 pc salary hike in 2023: Survey
To stay ahead, most businesses will need to transform their workforce to meet these demands. Further, 60 per cent of...
Maha: Tribunal awards Rs 12.96 lakh compensation to woman for son’s death in road accident
The MACT awarded a compensation of Rs 12.96 lakh to the deceased's mother, including Rs 8.64 lakh towards the loss of...
Facts
Good things happen when leaders reflect on their mistakes: Research
Researchers discovered that when leaders took the time to reflect on what they learnt from their mistakes, they...
Booster dose of Covishield offers best immune response: Lancet study
According to the study, even though homologous and heterologous boosting with Covishield or Covaxin in Covishield or...
UK is failing to address menopausal discrimination in the workforce
The report, published in July last year, was carried out to think of solutions to help women who have struggled to...