Lloyd's Report Analyzes Bitcoin Risks for Insurers
More and more Bitcoin businesses are adopting mainstream practices and seeking insurance for their operations. A report by top insurance market operator Lloyd's, published on June 12 and targeted at insurance service providers, highlights the key risk factors for the insurance of Bitcoin operations. Lloyd's, an insurance market located in London, is one....
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Charles A Cowan is counsel in the Insurance Practice Team within the Corporate & Securities Practice Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath. He previously managed a team responsible for the investigation of internal and external financial crime and regulatory non-compliance at Lloyd's of London. In this article he discusses the risks that influence an insurer's decision to work with companies in bitcoin, and how they might be overcome. In 1904, Lloyd's of London was still largely a marine market. And so, when approached in that year to issue the world's first automobile policy, underwriters did....
The London based insurance giant, Lloyd's has recently published a report on the risk factor associated with Bitcoin and other digital currencies. The report titled "Bitcoin - Risk factors for insurance" provides a detailed description of different kinds of threats faced by Bitcoin. According to the company, the security risk associated with Bitcoin will never be reduced to zero. The Lloyd's report, authored by multiple experts was specially commissioned to understand and assess the risks associated with insuring Bitcoin based businesses. The report shows that the companies involved in....
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