Ivelin Zvezdov

Interconnectedness triggers risk contagion but also motivates intellectual and scientific collaboration

Central banks are actively looking to take the lead in the propagation of knowledge, risk metrics, and recommendations on climate risk variability impacts on the wider financial industry.

This year the National Bureau of Economic Research organized a conference on the impacts of blockchain, distributed ledgers, and smart contracts on financial and insurance institutions, firms and markets. I was invited to present on this subject and to participate in an industry panel discussion.

Arriving at the pure technical catastrophic premium for flood insurance is not as straightforward as it might seem.

As the soft market for insurance and reinsurance persists, providers are seeking ways to maintain their levels of coverage at a lower price.

In 1949, when Popular Mechanics predicted that computers of the future might have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh a mere 1.5 tons, no one could have imagined the awesome power of today's computing technology.