Global Economy
Investors Press U.S. Drug Companies to Review Opioid Legal, Financial, Reputational Risks
U.S. shareholder activists are addressing the soaring death toll from opioid drug abuse, asking companies that make and distribute the painkillers to review the risks their businesses could face from ...
Etherisc, an InsurTech Startup, Is Marketing Blockchain-Based Flight Delay Insurance
Etherisc, a Zug-Switzerland-based insurance platform startup, has begun offering blockchain-based flight delay insurance, called Flight Delay, which automates the process of getting an insurance ...
AIG’s Newly-Acquired Tech Subsidiary Now Known as ‘Blackboard’
"Blackboard," is the new name for American International Group's technology-focused subsidiary formerly known as Hamilton USA. Hamilton USA was part of Hamilton Insurance Group, but AIG announced ...
U.S. SEC Alleged to Wrongly Collect $14.9B From Investment Firm’s Liquidating Trustee
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a class action lawsuit seeking to recover $14.9 billion that lawyers for an investment firm's liquidating trustee say should not have ...
Basic IT Security Best Practice Could Have Minimized the WannaCry Ransomware Attack: UK Govt.
The U.K. government holds North Korea responsible for the global WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled parts of the state-run National Health Service as a damning report highlighted its weak ...
Insurance Included in Singapore’s Plans to Create 4,000 Finance Sector Jobs
Singapore wants to bolster its status as a wealth management and foreign-exchange center as part of plans to create more financial-sector jobs and mitigate the effect of rapid changes in technology. ...
Executives On The Move at Ironshore and The Hartford
Ironshore appointed three executives to underwrite Specialty Casualty risk in U.S. and London markets. The Hartford named a new chief medical officer. *** Iron-Excess, the excess underwriting unit of ...
Big Oil’s $1B Climate Change Fund Chooses First Three Investments
A $1 billion fund created by top energy companies to curb climate change announced its first three investments on Friday and said two new members could be poised join the scheme. The Oil and Gas ...