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A new report from Australia’s Lowy Institute highlights growing concerns about debt related development funding in the Pacific.

The seventh edition of the Pacific Aid Map, released last month, covers official development finance (ODF) from 2008 to 2022 and includes data on more than 37,000 projects.

One key concern mentioned is debt, with growing use of loans rather than grants, that do not need to be paid back.

“Some 60 percent of infrastructure financing in the Pacific is now being financed by loans,” the report said.

“While 75 percent of these loans are directed to the region’s largest economies, such as PNG and Fiji, the remaining quarter is allocated to smaller economies, a majority…

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• “AI washing” is an emerging risk trend, leading to securities class action lawsuits.
• D&O market remains competitive but a step up in scrutiny of corporate conduct around the globe means loss potential is still high.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 5 December 2024 – Directors and Officers (D&Os) have been operating in a highly complex environment throughout 2024, and further volatility can be expected during 2025. Executives face multiple exposures in an increasingly…

WASHINGTON (WGEM) – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is calling on the Biden administration to help out students who have been defrauded by for-profit colleges before President Joe Biden leaves office Jan. 20, 2025.

Durbin led a letter with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asking him to ensure the department forgives student debt that people took out to pay for what Durbin calls “predatory schools.”

Durbin said the department needs to follow through on the promise it made in 2022 to 1.2 million borrowers who attended schools that engaged in documented fraud and misconduct. This includes students who attended Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute,…

Veteran entrepreneur Serge van Dam – a director and small shareholder in Montoux at the time of its liquidation – said FIS was essentially accusing the Wellington firm of using FIS code to train its AI.

In a Demand For Jury trial filed last month, FIS said, “Instead of designing and writing its own software – which would take years and cost millions of dollars – Montoux gives itself a massive head start (and relieves itself of developmental risk) by improperly accessing the ‘legacy’ platform’s code, i.e., [FIS] Prophet computer code, which takes only days or weeks and costs much less.”

Van Dam strongly refuted the accusation, saying Montoux was developing a new solution and had no interest in FIS’s “40-year-old legacy…

WASHINGTON (WGEM) – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is calling on the Biden administration to help out students who have been defrauded by for-profit colleges before President Joe Biden leaves office Jan. 20, 2025.

Durbin led a letter with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asking him to ensure the department forgives student debt that people took out to pay for what Durbin calls “predatory schools.”

Durbin said the department needs to follow through on the promise it made in 2022 to 1.2 million borrowers who attended schools that engaged in documented fraud and misconduct. This includes students who attended Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute,…