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Visa CFO Says Industry Fraud Costs to Soar as Hackers Innovate
Payment networks, retailers and banks will continue to face significant costs to address fraud as hackers find new ways to steal data, according to Byron Pollitt, chief financial officer of Visa Inc. ...
Lawyer Says S&P’s Global Biz at Risk on Australia Liability Ruling
Standard & Poor's global business may be at risk after an Australian judge ruled the company misled investors with triple-A ratings on derivatives whose value plunged during the global financial ...
Guy Carpenter Promotes Reina to CEO, Continental Europe & MENA
Guy Carpenter & Co. on Wednesday announced that Massimo Reina has been promoted to the position of CEO of Continental Europe and MENA, with immediate effect. He succeeds Peter Stubbings, who has ...
Judges Rules in Favor of Chevron on $9.5B Pollution Damage Award; Says Lawyer Tactics Fraudulent
Steven Donziger, the Harvard-educated lawyer who has waged a two-decade battle against Chevron Corp over pollution in the Amazon jungle in Ecuador, is not one to accept defeat quietly. Hours after a ...
Cyber Attacks Increasing, Costing Millions, Straining Internet
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyber attacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet. While some attackers are diehard activists, ...
House Passes Flood Insurance Bill; Key Senators Sign On
The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday evening passed bipartisan legislation to curb some of the premium increases in the nation's flood insurance program that have been causing "sticker shock" ...
Gov. Christie Says N.J. May Get $10B of Federal Sandy Aid
Governor Chris Christie said New Jersey may receive as little as $10 billion of federal recovery funds for $37 billion of damage from Hurricane Sandy. "Some really difficult decisions will have to be ...
House Poised to Pass Flood Insurance Change Backed by Realtors
The U.S. House will have enough votes to pass flood-insurance legislation following last-minute changes to give more coastal property owners a break from rate increases, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer ...