Are property insurance markets prepared to manage escalating climate risk? Climate change related disasters are become more frequent and more devastating, and wildfires are now the fastest-growing source of climate related damages in the United States. 2025 brought two catastrophic wildfires to Southern California: the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire. Together, these are costliest wildfires in U.S. history. One likelihood is that homeowners insurance will be increasingly hard to find and afford in areas prone to wildfires in California. State Farm …
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Roughly 190 active fintech startups that I am aware of are based in the Greater Boston area, the geography of which runs in my view approximately from Portland in the north to Providence in the south, …
This is the second of an indeterminant number of posts delivered at irregular intervals highlighting songs about money. Some everyone will know; some are more obscure. Taken together, they create a soundtrack for the fintech experience. …
Boston Fintech Week is back! This seventh edition, brought to you once again by Fintech Sandbox, is running from October 14 – October 18, 2024. This year’s theme is Fintech at Full Throttle. One of the things that makes …
Small and midsize enterprises (“SMEs”) make up almost all businesses in the EU and, indeed, around the world. But while their financial services needs are different from those of individuals and large corporations, they often report …
Private credit plays a growing role in finance and this market segment now exceeds $2 trillion in value. As it has grown, so to have worries that it conceals significant risks to the global financial system. …
“That clinking, clanking sound Can make the world go ‘round” After more than 30 years of operating at the intersection of technology and financial services, I’ve come to realize that what fintech really needs isn’t AI …
Part one of our interview with Professor of Economics Teresa Ghilarducci, on the topic of her new book “Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy,” is here. Q. Teresa, I’d like to ask a few …
More than one quarter of older American workers earning higher wages — above $137,700 — have nothing but Social Security to rely on in retirement. And nearly half of all families have no retirement savings at …
Partech is a global investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco, and about 70 employees. It was founded in 1982 in San Francisco as a corporate venture arm for the …
There are now nearly 200 active fintech (insurtech, regtech, etc.) startups in the Greater Boston ecosystem, the geography of which runs in my view approximately from Portland in the north to Providence in the south, and …