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New Hurricane Season Begins as Houston Continues Rebuilding From the Last One
In an empty lot where Vincent Shields' Houston home once stood, he points out properties whose owners were driven out after Hurricane Harvey inundated the region last summer. "On this street there's ...
Cyber Threats on the Rise for State Election Systems: FireEye
U.S. election systems are increasingly at risk for cyber attacks ahead of the November midterms as Russia continues information operations to sow political division, according to cyber firm FireEye ...
Tougher No-Deal Brexit In the Cards If Talks With EU Fail
The European Union is weighing a much stronger warning on the risk of Brexit talks collapsing without a deal if the U.K. fails to lay out its position in more detail next month, said a person ...
Cyber Attackers Claim They Struck Two Large Canadian Banks
Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said on Monday that cyber attackers may have stolen the data of nearly 90,000 customers in what appeared to be the first significant assault on ...
Insurers Back Global Regulation Provision in Newly-Passed Banking Reform Bill
The financial services regulatory reform measure passed by Congress yesterday, which contains parts of more than 25 different bills, includes a provision on international insurance regulation that is ...
Critics Worry FEMA Isn’t Ready for Hurricane Season
With just a week to go before hurricane season, top jobs at the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency remain vacant and critics say that will make it harder for the government to respond to ...
Wall Street Banks Lose Out With Dodd Frank Rewrite
Congress on Tuesday rolled back some of the restraints imposed on banks after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, but big players like Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, will not ...
New EU Data Protection Law May Lead to Diminished Underwriting Quality: A.M. Best
Complying with the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation is leading insurers and reinsurers to dilute the types of data they gather—something that could diminish underwriting ...