Hints and tips:
...New York-listed insurer Assured Guaranty had more than $12bn of exposure to UK water companies at the end of 2023, with more than $2bn to Thames Water alone....
...Kathleen Donnelly KC acted for 555 sub-postmasters in a 2019 High Court case, known as Bates v Post Office, that led to revelations the company had pursued thousands of people between 2000 and 2014 with...
...AI is giving underwriters godlike powers, according to the president of Sompo Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies....
...They’re cheap by historical standards. US equities a little bit less so. Those are a little more expensive than historical standards....
...A resulting squeeze in living standards is rippling from low-paid labourers through to the professional classes and into boardrooms....
...It was not that the trucks had any deficiency to bother the police or the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, which regulates haulage in Britain....
...Non-Standard Finance....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...Meetings are now virtual, and work from home is the new standard....
...Its iptiQ unit helps other companies to develop insurance products....
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...Only a handful of companies have liquidity issues by 2021,on our estimates –assuming credit cannot be rolled....
...When Slovak Republic v Achmea reached the ECJ in 2018, it had been eight long years for London-based Hogan Lovells partner Markus Burgstaller, who represented the country against the Dutch company....
..., and extremely strong by historic standards....
...However, the England v France game was cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the country in decades....
...The financial crisis did not work out well for companies which sold specialist insurance on bonds....
...A three-bedroom villa in Taormina is on the market for €1.35m with E&V....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...The company is expected to outline changes to software that controls a system designed to automatically prevent a mid-flight stall....
...; (iv) assist in the payment of sickness benefits; and (v) protect supply-chain financing in response to the coronavirus....
...For insurance companies dealing with seafront real estate, to the electric utilities that must make sure their grid can withstand large wildfires, the physical impacts of a warmer world have become impossible...
...The group — which includes UK-based trading platform Etoro and exchange Coinbase — announced on Tuesday that it had formed CryptoUK “to improve industry standards and engage policymakers”....
...They also may have support from other investors, Aberdeen Standard Investments and Fidelity International....
...But Apollo Global set the standard in exploiting insurance companies to fuel growth. It established Athene (a recently listed annuity provider), where Apollo manages the premiums Athene brings in....
...The market has come roaring back since the crisis, although the public sector plays a bigger role than insurance companies in providing insurance cover....
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