International
Analysis: Optimism Fading, Brazil Protests Put Leaders On Alert
When more than 200,000 protesters took to the streets across Brazil on Monday night, they demanded a dizzying array of improvements—from halting the fast rise of prices to cleaning up government ...
Unrest In Turkey Highlights Terror Coverage Gaps, Willis Exec Says
With acts of terrorism defined in different ways under standalone terrorism insurance policies, insureds could find themselves without coverage in situations more akin to political violence than ...
eBay CEO Confident Of Getting China Payments License
eBay Inc.'s PayPal division will become the first foreign company to secure a payments license in China, CEO John Donahoe predicted, but he cautioned that the e-commerce giant is taking a cautious ...
Analysts: Travelers/Dominion Deal Makes Sense, More U.S.-Canadian M&A May Follow
The Travelers Companies' decision to acquire Dominion of Canada General Insurance, a unit of E-L Financial Corp., for $1.1 billion makes strategic sense, according to analysts. The acquisition now ...
IPO-Seeking China Companies Pay More to Avoid Boards Going Naked
Stephen Markscheid holds one of the riskiest jobs in the world—or so say directors and officers liability insurers. The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards ...UK Charges Ex-UBS Trader In LIBOR Probe
Britain's fraud prosecutor on Tuesday charged former UBS trader Tom Hayes with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud, as part of a global investigation into the manipulation of benchmark interest ...
EU Allows Exchange Information Exchange With U.S. on Audit Probes
Audit regulators in the European Union won EU approval to swap information with their U.S. counterparts in a step that makes it easier for watchdogs to probe potential malpractice. The U.S. Public ...Russia Sets Back UN Global Warming Talks 6 Months
The United Nations global warming talks have been set back by six months after Russia and its allies blocked progress at a group charged with implementing decisions of the 190 nations involved in the ...