International
Lloyd’s Focuses on Brokers, MGAs, Capital in New ‘Vision 2025’ Plan Details
Lloyd's has published a more detailed strategy for 2014-2016, setting out how it will work towards achieving goals embodied in its "Vision 2025" Plan, describing "how the Corporation will support ...
Few Will Buy Insurance Against A Chinese Financial Meltdown
Selling insurance against a financial crisis should not be difficult, five years after the last one nearly wrecked the global economy. But when it comes to China, the world's second-largest economy, ...
RMS CEO Shah Confronts Delays With Cat Modeling Platform Rollout
RMS launched its Exceedance 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. on April 14 with a hard sell of RMS(one), a cloud-based catastrophe risk management system the California company hopes will modernize ...
Aon’s New Political Risk Map Highlights BRICS Increased Risks
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has unveiled its 2014 Political Risk Map, which identifies an increased risk rating for all five BRICS countries. Aon noted that ...
RMS Signs on 5 New Catastrophe Modeling Partners
RMS said it inked partnerships with five additional companies in a bid to further diversify catastrophe modeling options for its new cutting-edge system. Financial terms were not disclosed. The ...
Beijing Breaks Into Top 10 City Rankings: A.T. Kearney
Beijing's ability to draw business investment helped vault it into the top 10 of cities with the greatest global appeal. The Chinese capital landed at eighth of 84 municipalities ranked by ...
Chilean Wildfire Damage Wipes Out 2,000-Plus Homes And Counting
Chilean firefighters were struggling to control a blaze around the city of Valparaiso that has destroyed more than 2,000 homes on Monday, just two weeks after an earthquake collapsed houses in the ...
Cyclone Ita Update: Ports Reopen, Power Resumed
Queensland remained on alert for flash floods and destructive winds Sunday as Tropical Cyclone Ita hugged the northern coast of Australia's second-largest state. Gales with gusts of up to 110 ...