Risk of COVID-19 Exposure on Airlines Drops when Middle Seats Are Empty: Study April 16, 2021 By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein The risk of being exposed to the COVID-19 virus on an airline flight drops by as much as half when...
New York City Begins $1.5B Project to Protect Manhattan from Floods April 16, 2021 By Henry Goldman New York City has embarked on a $1.45 billion resiliency project in lower Manhattan along the East River, an area...
Many Climate Scientists Moving from Fieldwork to Jobs in Financial Services April 16, 2021 By Iain Withers, Carolyn Cohn and Simon Jessop LONDON – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought...
Impact of Brexit on City of London Is Worse than Expected: Study April 16, 2021 By Huw Jones LONDON – Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff and a combined trillion pounds ($1.4 trillion) in...
UK Space Industry Aims to Remove Dangerous Space Junk from Orbit April 16, 2021 By Thomas Pfeiffer and Thomas Seal A defunct satellite spent early April hurtling through space toward the body of an old rocket, threatening a collision that...
Ex-Allianz CFO Wemmer Plans to Form SPAC to Target Insurance Deals April 16, 2021 By Jan-Henrik Förster and Aaron Kirchfeld Dieter Wemmer, a veteran insurance executive who was chief financial officer at Allianz SE, is launching a blank-check company to...
Russian Spy Agency SVR Responsible for SolarWinds Hack: White House April 16, 2021 By Christopher Bing The White House said in a statement on Thursday that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible...
Zywave Acquires Risk Management Solutions Provider, Enquiron April 16, 2021 Insurance technology provider Zywave announced the acquisition of Enquiron, the Boston-based provider of risk management and consultative business solutions. Financial...
Mississippi Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Marijuana Program April 16, 2021 By Emily Wagster Pettus The Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that’s trying to block a voter-approved medical marijuana program by...
The Hilb Group Acquires McCartha, Cobb & Associates of South Carolina April 16, 2021 The Hilb Group, LLC has acquired South Carolina-based McCartha, Cobb & Associates, Inc. (MC). The transaction became effective on April...