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...Perhaps insurance companies would also buy them as a hedge. Annuities from insurers are considered poor value for money now because rates are so low....
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...With its US operations spun out and €28.5bn in debt on the books, Drahi saw Altice’s pandemic-spurred collapse in value as a fairly opportunistic bid to delist the company at a modest 24 per cent premium...
...Tax increases could loom for companies around the world because of the need to repair government balance sheets weakened by emergency spending....
...Admiral is waiving motor claims excess fees for NHS or emergency service workers, as well as guaranteeing cover for those working as an NHS volunteer....
...As a global recession looms, companies are slashing their marketing budgets just to keep companies afloat....
..., Nippon Life Insurance, NEC, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Nomura Holdings, Fujitsu, Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mitsui Fudosan, Meiji, Lixil For decades, many Japanese companies...
...; (iv) assist in the payment of sickness benefits; and (v) protect supply-chain financing in response to the coronavirus....
...Emergency services are using this to respond to fires in remote regions while insurance companies use it to check disaster claims....
...online insurance marketplace created through the Affordable Care Act of 2010, otherwise known as “Obamacare”....
...Northern Gas Networks, for example, already uses Pingit to pay customers who have been without gas for more than 24 hours because of an emergency or gas mains replacement....
...But it’s a useful insurance policy if the economy were to take a sudden cyclical lurch downwards....
...We need to invest in new state-of-the-art mobile communications for our emergency services, and introduce new technology at our borders and increase the counter-terrorism budget by 30%....
...(Financial Times) “Square has acquired curated food delivery service Caviar today, confirming earlier reports that the companies had been in serious talks....
...In July, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill turning over control of the troubled state utility to New Jersey’s Public Service Electric and Gas Company, effective in 2014....
...AIG and the US Treasury, which owns 80 per cent of the US insurer, appear determined to play hard ball over the businesses that the Pru agreed to buy for $35.5bn (£24.4bn) in late February, in spite of the...
...Whatever the mechanics of the mistake, the company has had to bolster its capital position by roughly £3.5bn and line up a £1bn overdraft facility for emergencies. Such things cost money....
...But insurance companies will have to look at ways to get that number up.”...
...Industry consolidation supported oil services companies after Acergy of Norway agreed a $2.5bn all-share deal to buy Subsea 7....
...Most firms and legal functions are taking a hard look at the way they provide legal services....
...Even the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has had to impose an emergency levy to rebuild its fund....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...(NASDAQ & TASE: SPNS) is a provider of IT solutions that modernize business processes to enable insurance and other companies to quickly adapt to changes; and nextSource Inc., designs, develops and implements...
...Among the mid-caps, Homeserve , which sells insurance policies for home appliances and emergency repair services, dropped 29 per cent to 867p after the company warned that profits could be hit if the slowdown...
...Global businesses have successfully re-engineered business systems and their underlying IT infrastructures to meet the challenge of delivering 24/7 service availability....
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