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Climate Stress Test for Insurers and Banks Debuts at Bank of England
The Bank of England on Tuesday set out its first comprehensive stress test of the ability of the British financial system to cope with climate change, saying the results will not be used to determine ...
Insurers’ Worries Over ‘Zombie’ Firms Contribute to Rising Rates: Swiss Re
The expectation that hundreds of so-called zombie companies will fail over the next few years and drag on the economy is among the major concerns prompting insurers to reduce risk and charge higher ...
FBI Recovers Most of Bitcoin Ransom Paid by Colonial Pipeline
The U.S. recovered almost all the Bitcoin ransom paid to the perpetrators of the cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. last month in a sign that law enforcement is capable of pursuing online ...
Amazon’s Bezos Announces Out-Of-This-World Risky Next Act
Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday that he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin next month. "Ever since I was five ...
Time For Insurers to Reassess ‘Grim’ Cyber Insurance Market: AM Best
With the cyber risk hazard environment—ransomware, business interruption and aggregation—worsening significantly, "prospects for the U.S. cyber insurance market are grim," according to a report ...
Federal Lawmakers Probing CNA Ransom, Cyber Insurance Payouts
Late last week, federal lawmakers requested information from Chicago-based insurer CNA about a March 21 cyber attack on the company and about a reported $40 million ransom CNA paid to end the ...
G-7 Agree On 15% Minimum Profits Tax To Curb Multinational Firm Tax Dodges
The Group of Seven wealthy democracies agreed Saturday to support a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15 percent in order to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing ...
Insurers Get Low Grades on Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss Action
Most of the world's largest insurers are failing to adequately address systemic risks such as climate change and biodiversity loss, but a group of five U.S. insurers are some of those that rank the ...