Emerging Markets
Singapore Agriculture Cat Modeling Firm Eyes China Expansion
Asia Risk Centre (ARC) scored two major insurance licensing deals that should help expand its agriculture catastrophe modeling presence in China. The Singapore catastrophe modeling and analytics ...
Opinion: Risk Versus Reward In The ‘Internet of Things’
I hope it's not true that Apple's next big bet will be on the "Internet of things." The concept is a useless and dangerous one, and now Apple's powerful marketing machine may join Google's in selling ...
Brazil’s Historic Coffee Drought Spreads Industry Uncertainty
In Santos, where Brazil's normally bustling physical coffee trade is clustered in a handful of small buildings near the port, the family-owned brokers and multinational companies that move almost ...
eBay Reaches Out To 145M Users After Massive Cyber Attack
EBay Inc said on Wednesday that a cyber attack carried out three months ago has compromised customer data, and the company urged 145 million users of its online commerce platform to change their ...Berkshire Specialty Treks Into Travel Coverage
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Peter Eastwood, hired last year to expand into more insurance niches, is pushing into travel coverage in the latest challenge to American International Group Inc., his ...
Africa Experiments With Sovereign Risk Pool Insurance Scheme
In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped galvanize global humanitarian and financial aid to drought-ravaged African ...Understanding Coface’s Ratings
Credit insurer Coface analyzes the risk of default on short-term trading transactions for companies operating in 160 different countries. These Country Risk assessments result in ratings on a ...
Where Should Insurers Look for New Markets?
With the insurance markets in Europe and North America already mature, insurers are looking for new regions and markets in which to expand. Only a decade ago, it was the BRICS that were hot—Brazil, ...