Forecasters at Colorado State University are declaring this years Atlantic basin hurricane season to be an unusual one that had more activity than expected, but with virtually all of that activity coming in the form of weaker storms.

Towers Watson, a global professional services company, announces the release of its Emblem 4.3 pricing software, which includes speed improvements, allowing it to perform 20 percent faster than the previous version. Emblem is used by property & casualty insurers to model claim experience and business demand in order to price...

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It was not Congress intent that federal regulators supplant state-based regulation with a bank-centric capital regime, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, says in a Nov. 26 letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other U.S. banking regulators.