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# November 30, 2015: Insurers, UN to Launch Emerging Markets Catastrophe Push and a Decade Without a Florida Hurricane
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/november-30-2015/
- Published: 2015-11-30T07:18:28.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-30T07:18:28.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

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### [Confidence In Oil Hub Security Shaken By Oklahoma Earthquakes](http://www.npr.org/2015/11/30/456777184/confidence-in-oil-hub-security-shaken-by-oklahoma-earthquakes?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [NPR](http://www.npr.org/2015/11/30/456777184/confidence-in-oil-hub-security-shaken-by-oklahoma-earthquakes?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Oklahoma is on track to have a record year of earthquakes — more than 5,000 have already been recorded. And those quakes appear to endanger the very industry that created them.

### [State Sets Record Without Hurricane](http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article46942700.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Miami Herald](http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article46942700.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

For the 10th year running, Florida dodged a hurricane, setting a new record, while the rest of the eastern seaboard escaped a hit by a major hurricane.

### [At Least 9 Dead as Storms and Ice Hammer Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/11/28/rain-ice-coat-parts-of-texas-oklahoma-and-arkansas/76491054/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/11/28/rain-ice-coat-parts-of-texas-oklahoma-and-arkansas/76491054/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Ice storm warnings remained in effect Saturday for the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma.

### [IIT-M Develops Method to Track Cyclones Accurately](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/IIT-M-develops-method-to-track-cyclones-accurately/articleshow/49976369.cms?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Economic Times](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/IIT-M-develops-method-to-track-cyclones-accurately/articleshow/49976369.cms?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

An Indian Institute of Technology-Madras team is developing a \`data assimilation’ method that will combine numerical weather models with satellite and/or radar data to reduce errors in prediction of tropical cyclones.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

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### [Insurers to Launch Forum to Address EM Disasters](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8191197c-9684-11e5-95c7-d47aa298f769.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com#axzz3syOEQ58I)

#### [FT (sub may be required)](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8191197c-9684-11e5-95c7-d47aa298f769.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com#axzz3syOEQ58I)

The Insurance Development Forum will be co-chaired by Stephen Catlin, deputy chairman of XL Catlin.

### [Insurers Face Big Bill from Brussels](http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/Finance/article1638640.ece?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Sunday Times (Sub may be required)](http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/Finance/article1638640.ece?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

British insurers are bracing for a financial crunch this week when the Bank of England governor Mark Carney may order them to raise billions of pounds of fresh capital.

### [German Insurance Watchdog Seeks Regulatory Calm After New Rules](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/regulation-insurance-idUSL8N13M3KR20151127?ref=riskmarketnews.com#H8u1ebDHYQQLZZrF.97)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/regulation-insurance-idUSL8N13M3KR20151127?ref=riskmarketnews.com#H8u1ebDHYQQLZZrF.97)

“We don’t need Solvency IV or Solvency III.”

### [Nippon Life Plans Japan’s Largest REIT as Investors Crave Yield](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-29/nippon-life-plans-japan-s-largest-reit-as-investors-crave-yield?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-29/nippon-life-plans-japan-s-largest-reit-as-investors-crave-yield?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Japan’s largest insurance company is looking to appeal to pension plans and big institutions by offering the prospect of higher returns.