by rw | May 6, 2013 | Articles, Interviews, Political Risk Insurance, PRI Products and Coverages
Betsy Blumenthal is the Senior Managing Director and San Francisco Office Head of Kroll Advisory Solutions. Kroll’s clients include Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, law firms, non-profits, academic institutions, and local, state and federal government...
by rw | Nov 14, 2012 | Articles, Political Risk Insurance, PRI Products and Coverages, Trade Disruption Insurance
In the past, “supply chain” insurance solutions tended to focus on Acts of God relating to the physical loss of tangible assets and the associated consequential loss of income. This timeworn approach overlooks the rise of intangible risks, or “Acts of Man,” and the...
by rw | Nov 1, 2010 | Articles, Interviews, Microfinance, Microfinance, PRI Products and Coverages
We conducted an interview jointly with Loïc De Cannière, Managing Director of Incofin, the prominent microfinance investor and fund management company, and Lieven Dupon, Senior Underwriter at ONDD, Belgium’s national export credit and political risk insurer....
by rw | May 1, 2010 | Articles, Non-honoring, PRI Products and Coverages
The credit and financial crisis of 2008 – 2009 exposed some deep fault lines in global financial markets. Unexpectedly for many, those cracks first opened up in highly developed markets rather than emerging markets, which conventional thinking would say are more...
by rw | May 1, 2010 | Articles, Intellectual Property, PRI Products and Coverages
In a speech at the Export-Import Bank’s annual conference on March 11 of this year, President Obama said, “Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people…There’s nothing wrong with other people using our...
by rw | Dec 1, 2009 | Arbitral Award Default (AAD), Articles, Enforcement of Arbitral Awards, Investment Disputes and Arbitration, PRI Products and Coverages
For an investor, winning an arbitration award against a sovereign depends not just on the strength of the investor’s case, but also on the choice of forum and on specific terms of the agreement to arbitrate. Investors and their attorneys focus on these matters with a...
