Mitsui Sumitomo to buy 15% stake in W.R. Berkley

Japanese insurer Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance has signed up to buy 15% of the shares in New York Stock Exchange listed W.R. Berkley Corporation. The transaction will go ahead via open market purchases or private deals with third parties. The Berkley Family will not be selling any of its common stock, the US-based property and casualty … Read more

Nutrition for Growth summit: Leaders call for solidarity amid funding crisis

A major summit to discuss global efforts to tackle malnutrition has kicked off in Paris. The meeting comes as international humanitarian organisations face a funding crisis sparked by the Trump administration halting a majority of the US’s foreign aid programmes. Plus, Canada’s prime minister says the United States is no longer a reliable partner in … Read more

Consumer expectations disrupting future of connectivity

Options in broadband abound right now, but research from comms services and digital transformation company Amdocs has revealed that no one single internet technology, such as cable, fibre, mobile, fixed wireless access (FWA) or satellite, is meeting all of broadband consumers’ needs. The broadband battle research, conducted by Dynata, surveyed the opinions of 1,000 … Read more