Kazakhstan: Almaty nonchalant over earthquake fears
As Kazakhstan awaits the Big One, its seismologists are underfunded while ever-taller buildings rise in the earthquake-prone commercial capital. Nur-Sultan may be cold and windy, but at least earthquakes aren’t a concern. That was Andrei Krasilnikov’s thought when he moved to the capital from Kazakhstan’s mountain-fringed business metropolis, Almaty. “It was a shame to have […]
Jamaica catastrophe bond grant agreements signed, deal imminent
The project to issue a first catastrophe bond to benefit Jamaica has made further progress this month, with an important grant approval now received and the World Bank facilitated cat bond deal launch now imminent. Of course, any regular Artemis readers will know that this World Bank project to issue a sovereign catastrophe bond for […]
