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Will ILS Investors Run for Cover After the Storm?
Most industry pundits agree that alternative capital is now a permanent fixture in the reinsurance marketplace. Where there is less agreement, however, is whether more opportunistic alternative ...
Manmade Threats Growing
Manmade threats are becoming increasingly significant, bringing potentially huge losses to cities, which could present a major risk to the world's future global and economic growth, according to ...
File Splitting: Handling Claims When Coverage Is Unclear
The duty to defend and indemnify a policyholder is an important promise an insurer agrees to in an insurance policy. Though coverage may be clear cut in many claims, others may require additional ...
Why Build Your Own Cat Model?
Insurers are using the new open loss modeling platforms to build their own catastrophe models for three main reasons: clarity, control and cost. Catastrophe models have become extremely important ...
How to Build Your Own Catastrophe Model
Given the complexity of catastrophe models, at first it might seem impossible for you to build your own. This was certainly the case 10-20 years ago. But technology has changed since the ...Why Build Your Own Catastrophe Model?
Insurers are using the new open loss modeling platforms to build their own catastrophe models for three main reasons: clarity, control and cost. Catastrophe models have become extremely important ...
Acquirers/Processors: A Critical Point in the Credit Card Payment Chain
In the typical credit card transaction, once a merchant accepts a credit card and enters card information into a payment system, the card data is sent to an acquirer and payment processor for ...
What Might a ‘Cyber Andrew’ Look Like?
Every component of the world's public and private infrastructure is subject to the risk of a cyber attack. Companies today face loss of or damage to digital assets; theft of funds; security and ...