Emerging Markets
Torrential Rain, Thunderstorms Batter Parts of China, Creating Flood Risks
The central Chinese city of Wuhan, epicenter of the new coronavirus pandemic, raised its flood alert level on Monday as torrential rain and thunderstorms battered swathes of the country, including ...
Reinventing Normal
If you were born just a few years ago, and started to understand the world today, then wearing a mask to go outside wouldn't seem like a very big deal. And the fact that your parents were always ...
Allianz Negotiating for China Insurance Asset Management License
Allianz is in talks with Chinese regulators for a license as the German insurer looks to eventually offer broad asset management services in the world's second-largest economy. Discussions for a ...
AIG President Zaffino on Surviving COVID-19: Ongoing Adaptation Is Key
If there's one thing that AIG's top leaders have tried to get across, it is this: COVID-19 is like nothing else the industry has faced, it will impact nearly every part of what insurers do in the ...
Sea Levels Could Rise 5 Feet if Glacier Thaws, and Other CM Risk Alerts
If the Denman glacier in East Antarctica keeps thawing, scientists warn it could raise sea levels almost five feet. The New York MTA's new tap-to-pay fare system may be putting rider privacy at risk. ...
Fifth-Generation Wireless Technologies: Suspicion vs. Evidence
One of the more surprising recent conspiracy theories to make the rounds of the Internet and social media is that the COVID-19 pandemic is actually a hoax perpetrated by corporations to cover up the ...
China’s Ping An Insurance Sees Massive Profit Drop
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co of China Ltd, on Thursday reported a 42.7% drop in first-quarter profit, its biggest fall in quarterly profits in more than eight years, as the coronavirus outbreak ...
Zoom, House Party or Webex: Choose Your Ideal Videoconferencing App
The coronavirus crisis has seen millions locked in their homes turn to videoconferencing apps, bringing with it question marks over security and privacy and a new verb - Zoombombing - the practice of ...