From Insight to Compliance: The Concept of ‘Appropriate Technical and Organisational Measures’

This article highlights the importance of #cybersecurity in contemporary business models and the need for #legal practitioners and #it professionals to work together to assess the extent to which #privacy and #security measures qualify as "appropriate" in the context of #liability #claims and actions for #damages. The article provides guidance on how to move from technical insight to legal #compliance.

Where’s the Insurance in Mass Tort Litigation?

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Key findings:1. #masstort plaintiff lawyers do not primarily base their litigation and settlement strategy on defendants' #liabilityinsurance, except in cases of insolvency.2. Despite #insurance policies assigning control over defense to the #insurer, mass tort defendants typically retain control over their defense, even when they recover under these policies.3. Mass tort defendants usually use their own funds to settle #claims, seeking indemnification from liability insurers, if available, at a later stage.4. Many mass tort plaintiff law firms rely on non-recourse litigation funding, reminiscent of early forms of commercial insurance like bottomry and respondentia. An emerging insurance market is reducing the cost of this funding and may eventually replace it.

Attitudes Toward Moving or Staying and Buying Flood Insurance to Face Varied Flood Threats

Logistic #regressionanalysis identified significant #predictors for attitudes towards relocation and #floodinsurance decisions. The study found that low-magnitude #flood #scenarios had predictive models, while high-magnitude flooding did not. Flood insurance ownership emerged as a significant predictor for staying after flooding.

Generative AI in Operational Risk Management: Harnessing the Future of Finance

#generativeai AI offers opportunities to enhance #operationalriskmanagement #orm through its ability to analyze #unstructureddata, #simulate #risk #scenarios, and #automate tasks. However, integrating this technology into ORM presents challenges, including #dataquality, #interpretability, #performance validation, #ethicalconsiderations, and organizational readiness.

Learning Inter‑Annual Flood Loss Risk Models from Historical Flood Insurance Claims

This research evaluates different regression models to predict #flood-induced #insuranceclaims, using the #us #national #floodinsurance Program (#nfip) dataset from 2000 to 2020. The models studied include #neuralnetworks (Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks), #decisiontrees (Extreme Gradient Boosting), and #kernel-based regressors (#gaussian Process). The study identifies key predictors for regression, highlighting factors that influence flood-related financial damages.

The Credit Suisse CoCo Wipeout: Facts, Misperceptions, and Lessons for Financial Regulation

The #creditsuisse #coco wipeout occurred when the #finma announced that the contingent convertible bonds that were part of the Credit Suisse Additional #tier1 (AT1) #regulatory capital had been written off.FINMA’s decision creates a healthy precedent: restoring #financialdiscipline in AT1 #bondmarkets by reminding investors that their investment is exposed to #creditrisk and that #duediligence is advised before investing in these products.