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Catastrophes Cost Insurers $89 Billion in 2020: Swiss Re’s Sigma
Natural and man-made catastrophes cost the insurance industry $89 billion in 2020 – the fifth costliest year since 1970, according to a report from Swiss Re's sigma. Of that total, $81 billion ...
Walsh’s Goal at Google: To Make Cloud Operations ‘De Facto Standard’ for Insurance Industry
Nigel Walsh, the new managing director, U.S. Insurance for Google Cloud, has an ambitious goal for his new job. "My mission, together with the rest of the team, is clear," Walsh said. "We want to ...
India Further Opens Its Insurance Sector to Foreigners
India on Monday further opened up its insurance sector to foreigners, as the nation seeks to spur investments to give a fillip to an economy battered by the pandemic. Lawmakers approved a legislation ...
Britain Predicts Financial Services Pact With EU by Month’s End
Britain expects to seal a financial services cooperation pact with the European Union shortly, a senior finance ministry official told a conference on challenges from market fragmentation. The City ...
Travel Business Dip, Catastrophes Leave Arch Capital With Insurance Underwriting Loss
Arch Capital Group reported a huge jump in fourth quarter net income, thanks in part to rate hikes and new business. But the Bermuda-based carrier's insurance business experienced an underwriting ...
Investor Wants Finland’s Sampo to Focus on Insurance, Sell Nordea Stake
Finnish financial group Sampo should sell its 4.3 billion euro ($5.2 billion) holding in lender Nordea this year and focus on its insurance operations, Elliott Advisors said on Tuesday. The activist ...
La Niña Should Stick Around Through March 2021
There is about a 95% chance of La Niña conditions prevailing through the Northern Hemisphere winter from January to March, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. The La Niña pattern ...
Cautious Optimism About a Final Brexit/EU Arrangement
British finance minister Rishi Sunak has said there is genuine progress in Brexit talks with the European Union, but that it would be better to walk away from a bad trade deal than tie Britain's ...