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Allianz SE has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire HSBC Holdings Plc’s Singapore insurance unit, people familiar with the matter said. The German insurer is the likeliest buyer for HSBC Life Singapore Pte after outbidding other industry players, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Allianz and HSBC are finalizing details of a transaction that could be announced soon, the people said. HSBC was seeking a valuation of as much as $2 billion for the business, people familiar with the matter have said. Talks are ongoing and no final decisions have been…

An interim US-Iran deal to end their months-long war and potentially fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely to immediately ease fertilizer flows as shipowners wait for more details to assess the safety of transits. A vital conduit for global commodity trade, Hormuz has been effectively closed since the first strikes on Iran at the end of February. Even once there is more clarity on the resumption of trade through the waterway, market watchers expect movement of the crop nutrients to be gradual as hundreds of vessels stranded in the region — carrying a variety of cargo — compete…

The battle between high-protein yogurts has entered the courtroom. Danone SA’s US subsidiary sued Chobani in US court on Monday, alleging that Chobani is improperly marketing how much protein is in a serving of its yogurt. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, claims that Chobani is manipulating the serving size listed on its 32-ounce container of yogurt to make it appear to have a comparable amount of protein as Danone’s Oikos Pro. That’s misleading customers into thinking the products have similar protein density, when Oikos Pro contains more protein per ounce, Danone said. Consumer demand for…

A county with one of the highest volumes of insurance fraud cases in Washington has filed its first changes under a new agreement with the state’s insurance regulator. The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed insurance fraud charges in Pierce Co. Superior Court against Ulrich W. Motchoffo-Kom on June 4. The case was enabled under an interagency agreement with the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner. Related: Washington Commissioner Issued $167K in Fines in 2Q Pierce County was the source of the second-highest volume of insurance fraud cases referred to the OIC in 2025, with 561 cases. The OIC asked…

Doubts swirled around the U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East as shippers said it could take weeks for confidence to return after any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamental questions remained unanswered. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday a preliminary agreement to end the conflict had been signed by the U.S. and Iran, although details have yet to be made public and both countries said a permanent truce was yet to be negotiated. The interim agreement would extend a tenuous ceasefire announced in April by another 60 days and reopen the Strait…

Any advertisements in New York that feature artificial intelligence-generated people in place of actors will now be violating state law if they don’t clearly label that they have used a “synthetic performer.” The law, signed in December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, went into effect last Tuesday. Her office is calling it a “first-in-the-nation law” that will boost transparency at a time when it says AI generated performers are popping up across all forms of media, including on social platforms and in digital advertising. Synthetic performers are defined under state law as “digitally-created media that appear as a real person.” The…

CVS is paying $36.5 million for submitting false claims to the Medi-Cal program for excessive dispensing of insulin pens. A settlement pursued by California Attorney General Rob Bonta in collaboration with the United States Department of Justice with CVS Pharmacy, Inc. resolves allegations that between 2010 and 2020, CVS submitted fraudulent claims to Medi-Cal, giving patients more insulin than prescribed and lying about refill timelines to get paid for unauthorized, unnecessary medication. The settlement requires CVS to pay $36.5 million total with California’s share being more than $2.7 million. According to Bonta’s office, CVS under-reported how many days insulin supplies…

A high-ranking Mississippi Insurance Department official has been placed on leave after allegations that he and his wife diverted more than $90 million from a credit union that is now in receivership. Chad Bridges, director of financial and market regulation at the department since early 2024, is named in a federal lawsuit brought by the National Credit Union Administration, conservator of the troubled Jackson Area Federal Credit Union. The suit charges that Bridges’ wife, Leigh Bridges, who was CEO of the credit union, reaped the benefits of years of fraudulent transfers of funds, money that was used to pay for…

Ukraine is accelerating reforms to align its banking and insurance sectors with EU standards by 2028 despite wartime challenges, to buttress investor confidence and deepen economic integration with Europe, its central bank governor said. The European Union launched formal talks with Ukraine on Monday by opening the first of six topics in accession negotiations, covering the judiciary, the rule of law, public procurement, and financial control. Ukraine hopes to open other negotiating areas later in the summer. “We have a large-scale program of European integration,” Governor Andriy Pyshnyi told Reuters. “We believe that the war and the transformation we’re undergoing…

More than a decade after announcing plans for a large real estate development in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, technology investor Bob Zangrillo is reviving the project, now pitching it as a home for the city’s growing roster of AI companies. The 7.8 million square foot (724,644 square meter) development will center around an office complex aiming to attract tenants in artificial intelligence, asset management and venture capital, said Zangrillo, head of investment firm Dragon Global. Plans also call for residential towers with more than 2,600 units, a hotel and retail space. The construction cost is expected to top $3 billion.…