Underwriting
Trump Creates Problems for Oil Shippers’ Insurance With Iran Withdrawal
Oil tanker owners are facing a nervous wait to find out whether they can carry on doing business with Iran after President Trump said on Tuesday he was reinstating a raft of sanctions against the ...
Former Anbang Insurance Chairman Slapped With 18-Year Prison Sentence Over $10B Fraud Case
Wu Xiaohui, former chairman of Anbang Insurance Group Co., was sentenced to 18 years in prison after being convicted of fundraising fraud and embezzlement, according to the official Xinhua News ...
Calif. Insurance Commissioner Ran Climate-Related Stress Test on Insurers
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones ran a "stress test" on the state's largest insurers, something that he claims is the first done by U.S. financial regulators to focus on climate-related ...
Insurers, Other Investors Ignoring #MeToo Risks Among Fund Managers
Investors are failing to ask fund managers about sexual misconduct claims and discovering such evidence wouldn't necessarily deter them from committing capital to firms, an industry group found. In ...
Nationwide Makes Strategic Investment in InsurTech Startup Betterview
Nationwide said its venture arm has made a strategic investment in Betterview, a machine learning InsurTech startup that focuses on capturing and analyzing data from drones, satellite and other ...
Executive Viewpoint: Insurers Must Raise Their Own Cybersecurity Standards Before They Can Credibly Protect Others
Business owners, particularly those with small-to-medium-size businesses, often think of cyber risks as an information technology problem, not a management problem. They believe their IT staff or ...
With Eye on Brexit, Tokio Marine Picks Luxembourg as EU HQ
Tokio Marine Group said it has received regulatory approval from Luxembourg's Commissariat aux Assurances and the Japanese Financial Services Authority to set up a new insurance company in ...
Europe’s Regulators Say They Aren’t Ready for Sweeping New Data Privacy Law
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web. There's one problem: many of the regulators who will police ...