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Jul 13 2021 // Global vaccinations of seafarers are going too slowly to prevent outbreaks on ships from causing more trade disruptions, endangering maritime workers and potentially slowing economies trying to pull out of pandemic...
Jul 8 2021 // BRUSSELS – The European Commission fined German carmakers Volkswagen and BMW a total of 875 million euros ($1 billion) on Thursday for colluding to curb the use of emissions cleaning technology they had developed.The...
Jul 7 2021 // InsurTech NY will be accepting applications for its growth-stage InsurTech accelerator. The application window will be open from July 7 to August 2 and applications will be accepted through the InsurTech NY website.The...
Jul 5 2021 // Businesses worldwide are fighting sophisticated data scientists as they battle to protect their data-rich computers from cyber crime – and the costly attacks are not going to stop, an expert at insurer Sompo Holdings...
Jul 2 2021 // A team of technical experts from the federal government and outside specialists are going to gather building material samples and study soil conditions in order to determine the engineering reasons behind the collapse of a...
Jul 2 2021 // Carrot General Insurance Corp., South Korea’s first digital-only insurance provider, announced that it has raised 100 billion won (US$88.7 million), which equals its founding capital raised in 2019.The Seoul-based...
Jul 2 2021 // India’s central bank warned about the growing presence of technology giants in the country’s digital financial services and payment systems which could pose a financial stability risk.In its semi-annual...
Jul 1 2021 // Insurance tech startup bolttech on Thursday said it raised $180 million in a funding round, led by private investment firm Activant Capital Group, that valued it at more than $1 billion.The New York and Singapore-based...
Jun 30 2021 // U.S. regulators on Tuesday said they would keep a closer eye on the automotive industry as it rolls out advanced driver safety systems, tracking the new technologies to spot potential defects faster.The National Highway...
Jun 29 2021 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may make corporations reveal more about climate risks in key regulatory filings, a push that Wall Street and the biggest tech companies say will lead to a barrage of shareholder...
Jun 29 2021 // In 2020 alone, more than 10.3 million acres were burned by wildfires across the United States, a level three times higher than the 10-year average from 1990 to 2000 10. Between fire suppression costs, direct and indirect...
Jun 25 2021 // The chief operating officer of a Philadelphia-based technology startup company orchestrated a long-running securities offering fraud while simultaneously embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the firm, according...
Jun 23 2021 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvAs the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many insurers to embrace more technology, there has been some talk of how insurtechs can step in and help insurers navigate the ever changing digital space....
Jun 23 2021 // Businesses worldwide are fighting sophisticated data scientists as they battle to protect their data-rich computers from cyber crime —and the costly attacks are not going to stop, a top expert at insurer Sompo Holdings...
Jun 22 2021 // Waitlist for All Sponsorships and Exhibit Hall Space; Agenda Full; Price Increase June 26.NEW YORK, JUNE 21, 2021 – InsureTech Connect (ITC) has announced that its sales have been so robust for its October 2021 Vegas...
Jun 18 2021 // Akur8, the Paris-based insurtech firm that automates insurance pricing, has closed a Series B funding round of $30 million, bringing its total funding to $42 million.This latest funding round will accelerate Akur8’s...
Jun 16 2021 // Insurer USAA is buying Noblr, an insurtech digital insurer offering behavior-based auto insurance.USAA, a Texas-based insurer focused on members of the U.S. military and their families, said the acquisition will help make...
Jun 9 2021 // The head of Colonial Pipeline told U.S. senators on Tuesday that hackers who launched last month’s cyber attack against the company and disrupted fuel supplies to the U.S. Southeast were able to get into the system...
Jun 8 2021 // A group of 50 investors managing more than $4.5 trillion in assets is calling on companies involved in the development and use of facial recognition technology, such as Amazon and Facebook, to do so in an ethical way.The...
Jun 7 2021 // ELEMENT, the Berlin-based white-label provider of digital insurance solutions, has raised €16 million (US$19.5 million), in additional investment from existing and new investors.The additional capital will be used to...