Banking Innovations - Part 1 - White Paper on Trends and Purpose

1. Banking Innovation is a global growth‐sector. There are three types of banking innovations (on top of the regular IT investments done by banks: (1) In‐bank FinTech innovations – also known as FinServ innovations; (2) Neo‐Banks as part of the FinTech community; and, (3) Non‐Banking FinTech companies.

2. A white paper on Banking Reports by MarketResearch highlight significant qualitative and quantitative differences between five continents examined.

White Paper on Asia Insurance Market Report 2014

1. Asia continues to be a region of contradictions and opposing dynamics, with markets that are extremely developed, markets that are truly emerging, and natural catastrophes among the most devastating anywhere on earth.

2. Insurance industry seems to be in a perpetual soft market, driven by new capital, new capacity, and fierce competition

3. A white paper by StrategicRisk discusses the Asia insurance market for 2014 and beyond.

White Paper on Kidnap and Ransom Insurance

1. Cognizant published a white paper discussing Kidnap and Ransom Insurance at an Inflection Point.

2. The number of kidnappings in the world is increasing dramatically, especially with more people traveling to less developed and politically unstable economies. According to some estimates, two people are kidnapped and held for ransom somewhere in the world every hour; each year, an estimated $1.5 billion is paid in ransom to kidnappers. While kidnap and ransom (K&R) insurance products are intended to reduce financial loss.

Life Expectency & Mortality

 LIFE EXPECTANCY AND MORTALITY

This post will provide basic Information on life expectancy and mortality (death)and how to  account for different age structures of different populations.