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Federal Reserve Chair Yellen Defends Global Regulatory Talks in Age of Trump
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, in response to a warning from a U.S. congressman to halt global regulatory talks in the early stages of Donald Trump's presidency, said in a letter the Fed has the ...
Insurer/Investor Group Urges G20 Economies to Phase out Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Investors and insurers with more than $2.8 trillion in assets under management on Wednesday called on the Group of 20 economies to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 despite U.S. doubts about ...
Insurance Software M&A: Sapiens to Grab StoneRiver for $102M
Sapiens International Corp. has agreed to snatch up StoneRiver Inc. for $102 million in cash – one of the larger recent acquisitions in the insurance software and services space. Plans call for ...
Lloyd’s CEO Beale Sees Insurance Opportunities in Trump Trade Threats
Lloyd's of London Chief Executive Officer Inga Beale said Donald Trump's presidency and the U.K.'s planned exit from the European Union are creating opportunities to sell insurance guarding ...
Ex-CFO of Bankrupt Enron Offers D&O Lessons from Accounting’s ‘Gray’ Areas
Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron Corp., a now-defunct energy trading company swept up in a massive fraud scandal in the early 2000s, warned a room full of directors and officers ...
AIG Loses $3.04B in Q4, Slammed by Higher-Than-Expected Claims Costs
American International Group Inc. posted its fourth loss in six quarters, burned again by higher-than-expected claims costs as Chief Executive Officer Peter Hancock struggles to sustain ...
Flood Risk Catastrophe Modeler Launches U.S. Office
JBA Risk Management, a provider of flood risk catastrophe modeling information in the UK, Canada and elsewhere, has launched a California-based U.S. office. "We are thrilled to be expanding our ...
AIR Worldwide’s New Colombia Earthquake Model Wins Regulatory Approval
AIR Worldwide's earthquake model for Colombia has gained insurance regulatory approval in the country. The catastrophe modeling firm said that the model can now be used by domestic insurance ...