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# October 3, 2014
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/october-3-2014/
- Published: 2014-10-03T06:09:30.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-03T06:09:30.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Sea Level Rise and Tidal Flooding: Forthcoming Report on Encroaching Tides Signals a New Chapter for Many Coastal Communities](http://blog.ucsusa.org/sea-level-rise-and-tidal-flooding-encroaching-tides-signal-a-new-chapter-for-many-coastal-communities-673?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Union of Concerned Scientists ](http://blog.ucsusa.org/sea-level-rise-and-tidal-flooding-encroaching-tides-signal-a-new-chapter-for-many-coastal-communities-673?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Next week, UCS is releasing a new report that takes a hard look at this question for the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, and outlines in detail the central and disruptive role that tidal flooding is poised to play.

### [Japan Braces For 300-Mile-Wide Typhoon](http://news.sky.com/story/1346233/japan-braces-for-300-mile-wide-typhoon?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Sky News](http://news.sky.com/story/1346233/japan-braces-for-300-mile-wide-typhoon?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Phanfone could bring devastating winds, huge waves and landslides to a nation already hit by several natural disasters in 2014.

### [Fire as a Source of Destruction—and Innovation](http://online.wsj.com/articles/fire-as-a-source-of-destructionand-innovation-1412256648?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [WSJ (sub may be required)](http://online.wsj.com/articles/fire-as-a-source-of-destructionand-innovation-1412256648?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The historical legacies left in the ashes of great blazes in Rome, London, Chicago and elsewhere

### [HIV Pandemic Originated in Kinshasa in the 1920s, Say Scientists](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/02/hiv-aids-pandemic-kinshasa-africa?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/02/hiv-aids-pandemic-kinshasa-africa?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Thriving city with multiple transport links and influx of male labourers made it perfect incubator for pandemic strain of HIV.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [USAA Seeks FAA Approval to Use Drones at Disaster Sites](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/usaa-seeks-faa-approval-to-use-drones-at-disaster-sites.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/usaa-seeks-faa-approval-to-use-drones-at-disaster-sites.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The firm said it could use drones to examine damage and evaluate claims before sending employees.

### [Consumers May Have Been Missold ‘Death Bonds’](http://www.ftadviser.com/2014/10/02/regulation/consumers-may-have-been-missold-death-bonds-y7PfaHX5YKmMZ0uPYdsjQO/article.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [FT Adviser](http://www.ftadviser.com/2014/10/02/regulation/consumers-may-have-been-missold-death-bonds-y7PfaHX5YKmMZ0uPYdsjQO/article.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Investors who used an unregulated collective investment scheme of “death bonds” may have been mis-sold products, the FCA has said.

### [Up and at ’Em](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21621906-slim-trim-and-solvent-ing-looking-regain-its-disruptive-mojo-up-and-em?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21621906-slim-trim-and-solvent-ing-looking-regain-its-disruptive-mojo-up-and-em?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Slim, trim and solvent, ING is looking to regain its disruptive mojo.

### [Cyberinsurance Resurges In The Wake Of Mega-Breaches](http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/cyberinsurance-resurges-in-the-wake-of-mega-breaches/d/d-id/1316306?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Information Week’s Dark Reading](http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/cyberinsurance-resurges-in-the-wake-of-mega-breaches/d/d-id/1316306?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Insurance policies customized for cyberattack protection are on the rise as businesses worry they could be the next Target.