U.S. Close to $5 Billion Penalty Against Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica Data July 23, 2019 By David Shepardson The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc. as early as...
Equifax’s $700 Million Data Breach Settlement Criticized July 23, 2019 By Pete Schroeder Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc will pay up to $700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive...
Insurer Beazley’s 1st Half Earnings Nearly Triple on Higher Premium Rates July 23, 2019 Lloyd’s of London insurer Beazley Plc said on Tuesday its first-half earnings nearly tripled from last year, as it wrote...
Death Toll Rises from Chinese Gas Plant Explosion July 23, 2019 Authorities in central China said Sunday the death toll in a gas plant explosion has risen to 15 with another...
Driverless Bus Hits Pedestrian in Vienna, Halting Trials July 23, 2019 By Jonathan Tirone Authorities are investigating why a driverless bus struck a pedestrian in Vienna, an incident that resulted in minor injuries but...
UK Lawyers Could Be Forced Out of EU Courts with No-Deal Brexit July 23, 2019 By Stephanie Bodoni UK lawyers with lucrative careers in European Union law are fighting to save their jobs after the bloc’s top courts...
Britain Reviews How to Improve Financial Services Regulation After Brexit July 23, 2019 By Huw Jones Britain has kicked off a review of how regulation of finance could be improved after Brexit, saying it would not...
North Carolina Company Accused of Selling $4M in Mislabeled Meat as Blue Crab July 23, 2019 A North Carolina seafood company has been charged with selling almost 200,000 pounds of foreign crab meat falsely labeled as...
Europe Faces Heatwave with London and Paris Expected to Break July Records July 23, 2019 By William Wilkes Europe is facing a second heatwave this summer, just weeks after the hottest June on record, intensifying concern over climate...
Greenlight Re Invests in New Zealand Insurtech Startup Cove July 23, 2019 Greenlight Re Innovations (GRI), a subsidiary of specialist property and casualty re/insurer Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., announced it has made...