Finance Updates – Page 6 – Finance Updates

Louisiana’s 2026 Auto Insurance Reforms Begin Lowering Rates Amid Medical Cost Pressures

Americas Policy Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

Louisiana has the nation’s highest auto insur...

New laws effective Jan. 1, 2026 tighten injur...

Insurers have begun filing rate decreases, in...

Reforms may curb lawsuit and billing-driven c...

Fed Holds Rates at 3.50–3.75% After December Cut — What’s Next for Inflation & Policy

Americas Policy Finance and Insurance

The Fed cut the federal funds rate 25 bps to ...

The 9–3 vote exposed sharp internal disagreem...

Policymakers’ 2026 outlook is cautious, with ...

Uncertainty is elevated due to post-shutdown ...

Canada’s Digital Infrastructure Surge: Investment & Policy Strategies for Data Centres and AI Compute

Americas Policy Construction

Canada’s data centre and cloud sector has lau...

The coalition, backed by major hyperscale ope...

CCDI emerges alongside the C$2 billion Canadi...

This creates growing opportunities and risks ...

UN Cybercrime Treaty: Navigating Financial Risks, Human Rights & Operational Law

Global Policy Computer Systems Design and Related Services

The UN’s new Hanoi Convention against Cybercr...

It mandates 24/7 national contact points, exp...

Over 70 states and the EU have signed, but th...

Civil society and companies like Kaspersky wa...

New U.S. Tax Credit Reshapes Semiconductor Investment & Manufacturing Landscape

Americas Policy Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

Congress passed H.R. 1, raising the semicondu...

The law restores full deductibility of domest...

SIA expects the strengthened incentives to ac...

Uncertainty over future extensions, supply ch...

EIB Unveils Game-Changing Trade & Export Finance Strategy to Unlock €105B Globally

Europe Policy Finance and Insurance

The European Investment Bank is pivoting towa...

It plans to deploy about €10 billion per year...

Security, defence, clean tech, supply chains,...

Pilots such as the Ukraine reinsurance scheme...

Surging Fed Repo Usage Removes Policy Caps — What It Means for Bank Liquidity & Risk

Americas Policy Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

The New York Fed’s Standing Repo Facility usa...

DCReport alleges the Fed has quietly funneled...

Officials frame the increased repo use as a r...

The pattern of uncapped facilities, rising us...

How the Latest Court Ruling Could Reshape Debit Interchange Fees and Consumer Costs

Americas Policy Finance and Insurance

Regulation II, implementing the Durbin Amendm...

Banking groups argue the proposed lower cap u...

A federal district court in Corner Post v. Fe...

Evidence suggests merchants largely did not p...

Political Interference in the Fed Is Fueling Inflation Expectations and Market Risk

Americas Policy Finance and Insurance

Political attacks by President Trump on Chair...

Historical evidence shows that such political...

Markets are reacting with higher long-term yi...

Legal rulings, institutional norms, and domes...

CISA Enhances SBOM & Launches Tool to Strengthen Secure Software Procurement

Americas Policy Computer Systems Design and Related Services

CISA launched a free “Software Acquisition Gu...

The tool structures assessments across lifecy...

CISA also issued draft 2025 SBOM Minimum Elem...

Together, the tool and SBOM guidance signal r...