Emerging Markets
How Insurers Can Evolve Into Astute Data Consumers
The Internet has enabled convenience and personalization at a level never possible before, forcing every industry to step up its game or be left in the dust by more tech-fluent startups. It has also ...
Saudi Arabia Seeks to Raise Insurer Capital Requirements
Saudi Arabia is working on new regulations that would raise capital requirements for the kingdom's overcrowded insurance sector, its central bank governor said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. The ...
Kingdollar Comments: Emerging Risk Issues Left Out of Algorithms
Emerging issues occur far more frequently than "black swans" and include more than just "casualty catastrophes." Still, such issues have, and will continue to, cost the property/casualty insurance ...
Majority of Smart Home Device Owners Willing to Share Data With Insurers—for a Discount
While privacy remains a concern, 78 percent of smart home device owners are open to sharing their data with their insurer to assist in policy pricing, but most (65 percent) would only do so if ...
China’s Ping An Insurance Warns Coronavirus May Impact Business
Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd , China's largest insurer by market value, said on Thursday that the coronavirus may have an impact on its business. Ping An's comments on the virus were ...
Fossil-Fuel Production May Generate Much More Methane Than Scientists Thought
Fossil-fuel production may be responsible for much more atmospheric methane than scientists previously thought, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. The results, if they ...
Sanofi to Work with U.S. Agency on Coronavirus Vaccine
French drugmaker Sanofi is working with a U.S. government agency to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus from China, saying it could have a candidate ready for clinical trials within a year. ...
Chinese Province Launches Specialty Insurance for Businesses Slammed by Coronavirus
China's southern province of Hainan has launched the first specially-designed insurance product to cover losses incurred by businesses as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, the ...