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Puerto Rico – The Singapore of the Caribbean?
Risk Cooperative
March 30, 2018
Well before Hurricanes Irma and Maria delivered a one-two punch to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean, Puerto Rico ...
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When We Stop Talking About Blockchain, We Can Change the World With It
Risk Cooperative
March 28, 2018
If the internet created a world of low friction communication, blockchain can create a world of low friction value transfer. Indeed, blockchain’s power ...
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Facebook Breaks Silence
Risk Cooperative
March 22, 2018
The coat of Teflon that usually shields Facebook and its affable leader, Mark Zuckerberg, who has matured into a techno statesman in the ...
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Should Saudi Aramco Scrap Its Initial Public Offering?
Risk Cooperative
March 19, 2018
The recent news that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is postponing the planned IPO of Saudi Aramco stock to 2019 is both a ...
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147 Million Worry About Their Identities, One Billion Have None
Risk Cooperative
March 8, 2018
In a grim case of societal Darwinism mixed with tragic irony, 147 million people struggle to protect their identities due to the Equifax ...
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Where Banks Stand to Lose with Blockchain, Insurers Stand to Gain
Risk Cooperative
February 20, 2018
As Bitcoin’s price vacillates between a high of $20,000 and the current figure of $11,063, the most widely known cryptocurrency is not alone ...
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One Thing is Clear From Davos, Blockchain is Out of Beta
Risk Cooperative
January 29, 2018
Under the decidedly grim moniker creating a shared future in a fractured world, the world’s elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the annual ...
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How to Stop Puerto Rico’s Death Spiral
Risk Cooperative
January 16, 2018
Long before Hurricanes Irma and Maria delivered their knockout blow to Puerto Rico and many islands in the Caribbean, the U.S. territory was ...
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What is Your Default Setting?
Risk Cooperative
January 2, 2018
While we may not realize it, a mix of natural tendencies, social norms and codes of conduct give us an almost algorithmic framework ...
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Who’s Counting Hurricane Maria’s Human Toll in Puerto Rico
Risk Cooperative
December 19, 2017
Puerto Rico is now ground zero for U.S. emergency response and public health efforts to avert a worsening humanitarian crisis. Puerto Rico, the ...
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Invest Now or Pay Later
Risk Cooperative
December 11, 2017
Long-term asset holders, such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurers, hold their capital – and with it the retirement, security and ...
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Hard Market on the Horizon
Risk Cooperative
December 6, 2017
Disaster fatigue is an understatement for how insurers, first responders and relief agencies such as the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency must be ...
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