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...Laura Hughes, its manager for general insurance policy, said the government should “guarantee that flood prevention and resilience measures are considered in all planning decisions and building standards...
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...With this in place, insurers returned to the terrorism insurance market, and the scheme has paid in excess of £1.25bn in claims, adjusted for inflation, over its lifespan, without having to call on its guarantee...
...The product has historically been used to guarantee tax credits vital to a renewables project, for example, or to protect an acquirer against an IRS challenge to the tax calculations underpinning an M&A...
...UK banks have been spared the imminent cost of pre-funding a multibillion pound deposit insurance guarantee scheme after the Treasury tabled “modest” reforms to bank resolution to bolster the tools for handling...
...Congress could stop this by reinstating the FDIC’s emergency authority to temporarily guarantee large business transaction accounts, as we did during the financial crisis. But it has failed to do so....
...“They’ve really been pushing $40 [an hour] and free health insurance.”...
...A standard 10-year new-build guarantee is insurance-backed and should be issued by one of the providers deemed acceptable to the majority of lenders, as set out in the UK Finance Mortgage Lenders Handbook...
...Thus, the usefulness of CBDCs for safely holding balances beyond deposit insurance limits is ruled out by construction....
...It should be more expensive than an insurance company buyout because a government guarantee means credit risk is lower, so how many takers would there really be?...
...Lastly, a bond market fallout in China has triggered an exodus of savers from lossmaking securities into insurance policies, which in some cases guarantee principal....
...There is no guarantee that the next Russian leader will have a more co-operative foreign policy outlook, but at least he might not share all of Putin’s dark obsessions....
...The chancellor’s headline measure — and intended vote-grabber — was a 2 percentage point cut to national insurance, at a cost of £10bn per year....
...But insurers have been reluctant to offer significant amounts of insurance to Kyiv for such work without some kind of western guarantee, given the ongoing conflict....
...Deposit insurance schemes — the norm in many developed markets to safeguard customers’ money — are typically funded on a pooled mutual basis across the banking sector....
...While shares of regional banks have swung wildly in recent trading sessions, depositors have been somewhat calmed by the implicit guarantee that the government would intervene in the crisis....
...US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said the Biden administration was not considering a broad expansion of bank deposit insurance or “blanket” guarantees for savers, dashing hopes of a sweeping government...
...I guarantee many, many people are going to find they are overinsured and they can start cutting some policies....
...Its enormous size makes it one of a handful of US banks that savers see as having an implicit government guarantee on its deposits, believing that regulators would not allow the bank to fail in a crisis...
...Well . . . . . . the Ownership Trustee shall initiate a Forced Sale at the best possible price on the Offered Shares, which does not guarantee the recovery of the initial value of the investment as the...
...A small capital raise would guarantee this, thinks Ivan Bokhmat of Barclays....
...With £100,0000 of pension a 60-year-old could currently buy a level (unchanging) income with a five-year guarantee worth about £6,500 a year. Someone aged 75 would receive almost £9,500....
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