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How Hong Kong protests are changing Canadian corporate risk management

September 23, 2019 Ross Marowits - THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO – Violent unrest in Hong Kong is the latest geopolitical threat prompting Canadian companies to review their safety measures for overseas employees, security experts say. “It’s forced companies to kind of look at their policies and procedures around travelling

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MacEwan University in Edmonton victim of $11.8 million phishing attack

September 1, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

MacEwan University has reported it was the victim of a phishing attack in August that resulted in the transfer of $11.8 million to the alleged perpetrator. MacEwan University said in a statement on Thursday that it discovered the fraud on

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Record breaking US$6.3 billion of non-life property cat issuance in Q2 sees ILS reach “critical juncture:” Willis Towers Watson Securities

July 28, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Non-life insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance reached a record breaking US$6.3 billion in Q2 2017, continuing the trend from the first quarter of the year, Willis Towers Watson Securities’ said in its latest ILS Market Update, released on Friday. ILS assets

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Canada’s fintech adoption rate doubles in last 18 months: EY report

July 25, 2017 by Angela Stelmakowich

Customer wants, needs and demands are guiding players in Canada’s fintech space toward developing simpler, more transparent and customer-centric financial services products, with insurance expected to see a big increase in uptake in future, suggests new research released Tuesday by

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“Noticeable decline” in distributed denial of service attacks in Q1 2017: Kaspersky

May 15, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has found a “noticeable decline” in the number of overall distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a change to how they were dispersed by country. Kaspersky released late last week its Q1 2017 DDoS