‘EDC girls’ and women's work: Race, gender and labor in the financial services sector in the US virgin islands

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Tami Navarro
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Atkins ◽  
Chappell Lawson

ABSTRACT The US Financial Services Sector (FSS) is commonly regarded as one of the most successful in addressing cybersecurity through public–private partnership and as a potential model for less advanced sectors. However, how well the sector has actually fared remains poorly understood. Based on publicly available material and in-depth interviews with those intimately involved in business–government collaboration on cybersecurity in the FSS, we analyze how and why collaboration evolved into its current form. We find that considerable gaps remain, which both reveal limitations in the current policy framework for the FSS and suggest lessons for other critical infrastructure sectors.


2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Welf Werner

The international performance of the US reinsurance industry differed sharply from other segments of the US financial services sector in the latter half of the twentieth century. Trade imbalances and loss ratios in international reinsurance business indicate that the American reinsurance industry had pronounced difficulties in getting a foothold in international markets. The dominance of the established western European reinsurance centres, which prevailed throughout the early phases of American reinsurance, continued long into the post-war period. Moreover, bilateral trade with the world's foremost reinsurance centre, London, failed to compensate for American catastrophe losses, a task maintained by reinsurers to be the key function of their international activities. London's failure to perform adequately is described by analysing the underwriting results of the period before and after Hurricane Betsy, the major American catastrophe loss of the 1960s.


Significance The islands most affected were Barbuda, St Martin and Sint Maarten, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Given their dependence on tourism as a main source of revenue, the damage caused by Hurricane Irma will have negative economic consequences across the region. Impacts The more northerly islands outside the hurricane zone may experience a short-term uptick in tourism. A prolonged downturn in tourism in some islands may increase dependence on the financial services industry. This may undermine previous efforts to crack down on off-shore tax havens. The rising number of high-strength hurricanes in recent years may raise insurance costs even in islands not directly affected by Irma.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Herdian Ayu Andreana Beru Tarigan ◽  
Darminto Hartono Paulus

<p>Increasing competition in the Indonesian banking industry has encouraged many banks to improve the quality of services to customers by utilizing information technology developments. Service innovation in the use of information technology encourages banks to enter the era of digital banking services. However, the development of digital banking services also increases the risks faced by banks. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the implementation of digital banking services and customer protection for risks from digital banking services. The method used in this study is an empirical legal research method. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of digital banking services is regulated by OJK Regulation No.12/POJK.03/2018. The existence of this OJK Regulation is expected by banks as providers of digital banking services to always prioritize risk management in the use of information technology. In addition, this study also shows the existence of 2 types of customer protection for the use of digital banking services, namely preventive protection in the form of legislation related to customer protection in the financial services sector and repressive protection in the form of bank accountability for complaints from customers using digital banking services.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
S. Grace Prakalapakorn ◽  
Lucas Bonafede ◽  
Linda Lawrence ◽  
Daniel Lattin ◽  
Nicola Kim ◽  
...  

Among children born with laboratory-confirmed Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, visual impairment (VI) can occur despite normal ocular structure. The objective of this report is to describe ocular findings and visual function among children examined during the Department of Health Zika Health Brigade (ZHB) in the United States Virgin Islands in March 2018. This analysis is based on a retrospective chart review of children eligible to participate in the ZHB (i.e., part of the US Zika Pregnancy and Infant Registry) and who were examined by ophthalmologists. Eighty-eight children attended the ZHB. This report includes 81 children [48 (59.3%) males] whose charts were located [average gestational age = 37.6 weeks (range: 27.6–41.3) and average adjusted age at examination = 9.1 months (range: 0.9–21.9)]. Of those examined, 5/81 (6.2%) had microcephaly at birth, 2/81 (2.5%) had a structural eye abnormality, and 19/72 (26.4%) had VI. Among children with normal ocular structure and neurologic examination, 13/51 (25.5%) had VI. Despite a low incidence of abnormal ocular structure and microcephaly, about a quarter of children examined had VI. Our findings emphasize that ophthalmological examinations should be performed in all children with suspicion for antenatal ZIKV infection, even children with normal ocular structure and neurologic examination.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Gratiela Georgiana Noja ◽  
Eleftherios Thalassinos ◽  
Mirela Cristea ◽  
Irina Maria Grecu

This paper empirically evidences the role played by board characteristics (skills, diversity, structure, independence) in supporting risk management disclosure and shaping the financial performance of European companies operating in the financial services sector. We exploit data selected from Thomson Reuters Eikon database in 2020 for the last fiscal year 2019 (FY0) on a longitudinal sample of 144 companies with the head offices in Europe (25 countries). Following an original empirical approach based on two modern financial econometric techniques, namely structural equation modelling (SEM) and network analysis through Gaussian graphical models (GGMs), the research endeavor outlines the decisive importance of an optimal board size, enhanced management skills, upward gender diversity (encompassed by women participation on board management), and structure (mainly a two-tier type, one management board, and a distinctive supervisory board) as fundamentals of risk management strategies, leading to improved financial achievements and a higher profitability for the analyzed companies.


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