Analysts in the J.P. Morgan European equity research team have said that if hurricane Milton’s industry impact comes in between $20 billion and $40 billion, they “don’t see Milton driving a reinsurance market turn” in 2025.Estimates suggest hurricane Milton’s costs for the insurance and reinsurance industry are coming in lower than the market had initially … Read more
Year after year, election after election, the electoral victories won by the far-right Front National (FN) party, and then by the Rassemblement National (RN, its new name since 2018), have progressively instilled the belief that, since the 80s, French society has, deep down, become more right-wing. Political scientist Vincent Tiberj, a university professor and researcher … Read more
Oct 20, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Email Security Unknown threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in the open-source Roundcube webmail software as part of a phishing attack designed to steal user credentials. Russian cybersecurity company Positive Technologies said it discovered last month that an email was sent to an unspecified … Read more
When US Vice-President Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, the party’s operatives believed they had engineered the perfect formula for victory. Biden, after all, had become a symbol of age and frailty, his presidency increasingly defined by his gaffes and lack of vigour. Harris, with her historic nomination and ability to galvanise … Read more
GenAI has taken the world by storm. You can’t attend an industry conference, participate in an industry meeting, or plan for the future without GenAI entering the discussion. As an industry, we are in near constant discussion about disruption, evolving market factors – often outside of our control (e.g., consumer expectations, impacts of the capital … Read more
