Emerging Markets
South African Insurers Acquiesce to Demands for Pandemic Business Interruption Cover
South African insurers are bowing to demands for the payment of losses that businesses suffered during the nation's lockdown. Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Ltd.'s Guardrisk will make settlement ...
China Pledges More Insurance Protection, Lending Support for Flood-Hit Areas
China's banking and insurance regulator on Saturday announced measures to further increase credit and lending support and insurance protection for areas that suffered from recent floods. The China ...
Rather Than Gamble, ITC Shifts From Vegas to the Digital World
A surge in COVID-19 cases is forcing InsureTech Connect – one of the world's largest insurance technology conferences – to go fully digital for its annual fall gathering. ITC has scheduled ITC ...
The UK’s Legal & General Wants Government to Lower Emissions From British Buildings
Legal & General called on Friday for the British government to introduce tighter building regulations to reduce carbon emissions in order to reach its net zero target by 2050. Britain said this ...
Torrential Rain, Thunderstorms Batter Parts of China, Creating Flood Risks
The central Chinese city of Wuhan, epicenter of the new coronavirus pandemic, raised its flood alert level on Monday as torrential rain and thunderstorms battered swathes of the country, including ...
Reinventing Normal
If you were born just a few years ago, and started to understand the world today, then wearing a mask to go outside wouldn't seem like a very big deal. And the fact that your parents were always ...
Allianz Negotiating for China Insurance Asset Management License
Allianz is in talks with Chinese regulators for a license as the German insurer looks to eventually offer broad asset management services in the world's second-largest economy. Discussions for a ...
AIG President Zaffino on Surviving COVID-19: Ongoing Adaptation Is Key
If there's one thing that AIG's top leaders have tried to get across, it is this: COVID-19 is like nothing else the industry has faced, it will impact nearly every part of what insurers do in the ...