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...First: the insurance sector is continuing to pay large ransoms to hackers, on behalf of companies, even though the governments of countries such as the US and UK have urged them to stop, arguing that this...
...Some UK companies have pointed to higher valuations when choosing to list in New York rather than London....
...Many economists say rising real wages, falling inflation, cuts in national insurance and the increase in the living wage will all help household incomes and spending....
...National General implemented rate increases at 10% in 2022 and an additional 12.8% in 2023....
...The flood maps that Fema uses to set premiums for its federally underwritten National Flood Insurance Program — which is how most Americans get flood insurance — are outdated....
...Mutual funds got another boost in the 1980s, as big companies started shifting away from defined benefit pensions....
...When I chaired the FDIC during the financial crisis, we sold the failed the mortgage lender Washington Mutual to JPMorgan. It was our only bidder and was prepared to take over WaMu immediately....
...Most Conservative MPs welcomed the cut in national insurance rate from 10p to 8p, which repeated a 2p cut in the Autumn Statement....
...In recent years, its performance has been blighted by higher than expected compensation payouts linked to mis-sold payment protection insurance....
...Money market mutual funds, introduced in the US in 1971, facilitated disintermediation by letting savers invest in a diverse range of instruments....
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