More than 81% of respondents surveyed say that technology has improved their access to health services, while 60% believe that it has led to better affordability. These were some of the findings from Prudential Corporation Asia's 'The Health of Asia Barometer' report written by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which polled 5,000 adults across 13 markets in Asia.
The latest incarnation of India's government-sponsored agricultural insurance programme, PMFBY, has been around for almost five years now. While it has successfully addressed some of the inefficiencies that plagued the sector in years past, there remains room for improvement.
SCOR in partnership with CyberCube has adapted its CAT platform to serve its cyber risk assessment needs. The CAT platform is SCOR's internally developed platform designed to manage natural catastrophe risk accumulations.
Willis Towers Watson has introduced two new cyber risk assessment services in response to the findings from its recent cyber claims insights report.
Climate change is likely to cause an uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt - a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the Equator - leading to increased flooding in parts of India according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The breach of SolarWinds and its Orion platform software in December 2020 was the most notable cyber security event of 2020 according to Tenable's inaugural 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective (TLR) report.
Cyber insurance is expected to go mainstream to address the spike in cyber risk for individuals and small businesses. Cyberscout, a provider of personal and commercial cyber risk assistance services, shares its perspective on the fundamental shifts in the global cyber risk landscape that happened in 2020, and what 2021 will bring for the insurance industry.
The Bangladeshi government is undertaking a BDT6bn ($70.75m) project to ensure faster upgrading and digitalisation of the insurance sector, Mr M Mosharraf Hossain, chairman of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA), has said.
Prudential Corporation Asia (Prudential) has released The Pulse of Asia - The Health of Asia Barometer, a report written by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which underscores the unprecedented opportunity offered by digital health technologies to improve access to healthcare in Asia.
A coalition of 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet Earth by 2030 by halting the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife according to The High Ambition Coalition (HAC).