Risk & Capital Management
Brazil’s Historic Coffee Drought Spreads Industry Uncertainty
In Santos, where Brazil's normally bustling physical coffee trade is clustered in a handful of small buildings near the port, the family-owned brokers and multinational companies that move almost ...
eBay Reaches Out To 145M Users After Massive Cyber Attack
EBay Inc said on Wednesday that a cyber attack carried out three months ago has compromised customer data, and the company urged 145 million users of its online commerce platform to change their ...
House Bipartisan TRIA Bill Expected In June: Subcommittee Chair
The chairman of crucial U.S. House subcommittee said a bipartisan bill of its own that will renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, or TRIA, will be unveiled in June. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, ...
Convicted SocGen Trader Arrested in France; Insists Bosses Knew of Activity
Convicted rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was arrested in southern France late on Sunday to serve a three-year jail sentence in a high-profile case he has depicted as one individual's struggle against ...
Troubled Tower Ends Relationship with PwC; Fitch Announces Downgrade, Rating Withdrawal
Tower Group International has fired PricewaterhouseCoopers as its accounting firm, six months after announcing it would restate previously filed financial statements for 2011 and 2012 due to ...
Charman Questions Soft Market Re-Buying Strategies as Endurance Cedes More
As the market softens, should insurers and reinsurers keep more of their business net, or should they buy more reinsurance and retrocessional cover while there are lower prices and better terms? A ...
Swiss Re’s Q1 P/C Premiums Soared, But So Did Its Combined Ratio
Swiss Re Group saw its net income plunge in the 2014 first quarter, but the reinsurance giant said it still performed well compared with the "exceptional" results it produced over the same period ...
Goldman Sachs: Many P/C Insurers Plan Riskier Investments
Nearly 40 percent of property/casualty insurers say they'd like to increase holdings in alternative investments in the coming months to combat low yields, according to a new Goldman Sachs Asset ...