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July 02, 2019 Issuances of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities worldwide reached $3.6 billion in the second quarter driven by repeat sponsors and perils, Artemis.bm reports. All four ILS deals issued in the quarter came from repeat sponsors. Returning sponsors also brought the majority of catastrophe reinsurance risk to the market in the period, with Bermudian Hamilton Re being the only new sponsor.

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July 02, 2019 A Boeing 737-800 airplane overshot its mark while landing at Mumbai airport in India amid heavy rains, forcing authorities to close the main runway and cancel 52 flights on July 2, NDTV News reported citing sources. The authorities diverted 55 flights to other airports in the country. A spokesman for India-based airline SpiceJet Ltd. said that the flight was carrying 167 passengers and crew on board and the mishap did not cause any injuries, the sources said.

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July 02, 2019 Jerome Despey, president of the Herault chamber of commerce, said that a heatwave and several wildfires have wreaked havoc on vineyards in the south of France, The Connexion reported. Mr. Despey said that high temperatures have burned vineyards in the regions of Gard and the Herault.

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June 28, 2019 South Korea has ordered steelmakers Hyundai Steel Co. and Posco to shut production at three blast furnaces for 10 days due to environmental violations, Nikkei Asian Review reported citing sources. The shutdown is likely to disrupt South Korea’s steel supply chains for months.

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June 28, 2019 Analysts at Germany-based Deutsche Bank A.G. said that reinsurance rates are likely to climb to 2% at the July renewals despite strong rate increases at the April and June renewals, Artemis.bm reports. The analysts said that European reinsurance rates are unlikely to increase significantly at the July renewals which include more global accounts.

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June 28, 2019 A report by U.S.-based consultancy firm A.T. Kearney Inc. found that new technology regulations and increasing geopolitical competition are likely to disrupt supply chains and procurement across the world in the next decade, Information Week reported. Terry Toland, an official at A.T. Kearney, said that companies will need to comply with a conflicting set of rules in international markets related to trade and data privacy.

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June 28, 2019

Japan-based Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. plans to recall an additional 490,000 vehicles in the country due to an electrical fault, The New York Times reported. Nissan said that a fault in the vehicles’ electrical system could increase fire risk in some vans and minivans such as the Serena, the NV200 and Cube. The automaker has recalled more than 1.5 million vehicles in Japan so far this year.

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June 26, 2019 Taiwan-based EVA Airways Corp. said that an ongoing cabin crew strike is likely to cost the airline more than $34 million in revenue losses, Flight Global reported. The strike began on June 20 and has forced EVA to cancel 248 flights so far and an additional 363 flights on June 29 and June 30.

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June 26, 2019 A report by U.S.-based tech firm Sonatype Inc. found that U.K.-based firms downloaded 21,000 or about one in 10 open source software components on average with a known security flaw in 2018, Software Testing News reported. The report found that about 30% of the components pose a serious cyber risk.

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June 26, 2019 Experts said that a lack of production data and government control in pricing of bulk agricultural products is hampering insurers’ efforts to determine rates for the segment, Asia Insurance Review reported citing sources. China’s agricultural insurance premium income totaled 57 billion Chinese yuan ($8.3 billion) in 2018, up 84% from nearly CNY 31 billion in 2013.