Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Signs of a possible thaw in trade tensions helped drive global markets higher on Friday after Beijing said it was “evaluating” recent overtures from Washington on starting trade talks. China’s commerce ministry said the US had … Read more
The main four parametric disaster insurance risk pools have signed a grant agreement with the Global Shield Solutions Platform (GSSP) to help them accelerate and deepen their collaboration, something which could have implications for how they transfer risk to reinsurance and potentially capital markets.Back in 2023, the African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC), Caribbean Catastrophe Risk … Read more
1. EU-IndoPac Jean Monnet Module Teaching Programme 2025. The UCLouvain, IEE Saint-Louis Belgium, and the Department of Studies in Law, University of Mysore, India, are holding the EU-IndoPac Jean Monnet Module Teaching Programme 2025 virtually from 2 -4 June 2025, with an essay-type examination on 5 June 2025. This course will be taught by Prof. … Read more
The Olympic Movement has recently experienced its own Habemus papam moment. After a 12-year mandate, Thomas Bach announced his intention to step down from his position as President of the International Olympic Committee (‘IOC’) this year. Much has been made of the secrecy and lobbying that accompanies the election and creates resemblances with the papal … Read more
What caught my eye this week. I read a short story when I was a teenager that unsettles me to this day. It featured an everyday American town, only everyone there was beholden to this one particular kid. Even the adults would watch what they said and did around him. To spoil the twist, it … Read more