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| A.M. BEST SPECIAL REPORT: EUROPEAN BANKS JUGGLE FUNDING & LIQUIDITY NEEDS | European banks face significant challenges in managing funding and liquidity (F&L), which are at least as important as the amount and quality of capital in positioning the industry to meet future financial crises. Banks are competing for finite sources of funding amid the current recession, and costs are higher, putting pressure on profitability even as loan losses are mounting. | | Published in 12-01-2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. |
| BESTWEEK: REINSURERS SEE ORDERLY, BUT SOFT JANUARY RENEWALS | January renewals showed signs of softening as reinsurers benefited from improved financial markets plus a lack of natural catastrophe claims in 2009, according to the latest issue of BestWeek U.S./Canada. | | Published in 12-01-2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. |
| MICROINSURANCE NETWORK: A REVIEW OF AN EVENTFUL YEAR | 2009 represents a historic year for the Microinsurance Network. The Network took a number of steps in consolidating and strengthening its procedures, publications and Working Groups. According to Craig Churchill, Chairman of the Microinsurance Network and head of the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, “The increasing media attention and growing involvement of government officials, multilateral agencies, insurance companies and even President Clinton in microinsurance is testimony to the importace of the Network’s mission of promoting good-value microinsurance | | Published in 11-01-2010 by Microinsurance Network |
| IFAC REACHES OUT TO WORLD'S ACCOUNTANTS THROUGH EXPANDED MULTILINGUAL WEBSITE | To make information about its activities more accessible to a global audience, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has translated core portions of its website (http://www.ifac.org) into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. These languages, in addition to English, which is IFAC's official language, are the official languages of the United Nations. | | Published in 08-08-2007 by IFAC |
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