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Kremlin-backed TV network airs note-by-note mashup of Trump praising Putin with 'Señorita' song

'I love it when you call me señorita,' Trump appears to sing, one auto-tuned note at a time, with each word drawn from a different speech. 'I wish I could pretend I didn't need ya.'




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Putin says he offered to SELL hypersonic missiles to America

Vladmir Putin (pictured) said he offered to 'balance everything out' by offering the Kremlin's weapons to Trump at the G20 summit in Japan in June.




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Russian media claim CIA spy in the Kremlin is 'fired' diplomat's aide

Russian media has reported that the mole extracted in 2017 may be Oleg Smolenkov, an aide of senior diplomat and former ambassador to the U.S. Yury Ushakov (pictured).




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Russian president Putin meets Nurmagomedov to celebrate victory over American Poirier at UFC 242 

Russian president Vladimir Putin hailed Khabib Nurmagomedov as a 'strong, tough fighter' after the unbeaten MMA fighter retained his UFC lightweight title.




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'Witch' is publicly shamed on TV and forced to confess in bid to wipe out sorcery in Chechnya 

Sekinat Ibragimova was publicly shamed on TV for casting spells on Chechnya locals. Pro-Putin local ruler Ramzan Kadyrov had her detained and had her paraphernalia seized.




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Emily Thornberry today accused Donald Trump of 'trying to tear freedom apart' as she demanded the end of the 'strongman era' of world politics.




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Giuliani suddenly pulls out of paid appearance at Russia-backed conference in Armenia

Rudy Giuliani (left) has pulled out of a scheduled appearance at a Russia-backed trade conference which Vladimir Putin (right) and his top advisor, Sergev Glazyev (center), would also appear at.




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White House staff 'restricted access to records of Trump's calls with Putin and Saudi Crown Prince'

The White House is said to have attempted to limit access to President Trump's conversations with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin.




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Congress is determined to get access to Donald Trump's calls with Putin

'I think the paramount need here is to protect the national security of the United States,' Democrat Adam Schiff said on NBC's Meet the Press.




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Alcohol consumption in Russia has plunged 43 per cent since 2003

The WHO released the report on Tuesday that put a decrease in the country's alcohol consumption down to a raft of measures brought in under sport-loving President Vladimir Putin.




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Smiling Hassan Rouhani of Iran and a far less impressed Vladimir Putin pose for bizarre selfie

The Iranian president smiled and looked at ease as he sat in front of the Russian premier, who appeared characteristically stern (pictured).




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Greta Thunberg is tipped to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, is tipped for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize just a week after she furiously chastised world leaders for failing to do enough to tackle the climate crisis.




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Greta Thunberg mocks Putin as she changes her Twitter bio to 'kind but poorly informed teenager'

Greta Thunberg, 16, changed her Twitter biography after Vladimir Putin called her 'a poorly informed teenager' who was being 'used by adults' at an energy forum in Moscow on Wednesday.




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Russia 'has deployed secret GRU unit known as 29155 to spread turmoil in Europe'

The unit is comprised of veterans from Russia's bloodiest wars, including hardened service personnel who fought in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ukraine.




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Holes in Iranian oil tanker hit by two missiles revealed for first time as Putin visits Saudi Arabia

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Saudi Arabia today, where he is set to seal oil agreements as well as use his influence to defuse rising tensions in the Gulf following a tanker attack.




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Kurdish fighters in Syria claim Turkey has launched new offensive

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Turkey and its rebel allies had launched a large ground offensive against three villages today and forces thousands of civilians to flee.




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Conor McGregor reveals bottle of whiskey he gave to Vladimir had to be checked for POISON

Conor McGregor (middle and right) has spoken about the bizarre time the bottle of whiskey he gave to Vladimir Putin (left) was removed by his security staff to check for poison.




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Putin's Soviet spy file declassified: Russian president's KGB profile is released to the public

A KGB profile belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been released to the public at an exhibition of declassified documents at the central state archive in St. Petersburg.




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Vladimir Putin says Wikipedia should be banned and replaced with a Russian version

'It's better to replace it with the Great Russian Encyclopedia in electronic form…here it will be in any case, reliable information in a good modern form.' Putin said in Moscow on Tuesday.




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Putin says dead scientists died trying to create a weapon that 'has no equal in the world'

Russian President Vladimir Putin (main) told widows of the scientists who died in a nuclear explosion earlier this year their husbands were working on an unmatched nuclear weapon.




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Vladimir Putin sets up Russian rival to Wikipedia after branding the online encyclopaedia unreliable

The new site costing £20.7million will be a web version of the Great Russian Encyclopaedia and show 'reliable information in a good, modern way'.




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NORMAN BAKER says we've been fed a pack of lies over the Salisbury poisonings

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Russian shaman who wants to rid the country of 'demon' Putin is arrested

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Vladimir Putin's TV channel boasts about nuclear-powered cruise missile which killed five

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Critics demand to know how Russia's new Prime Minister and his wife earned their fortune

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Anti-Putin blogger is murdered amid fears Russian hit squad is running amok in Europe 

Imran Aliev's body was found in a hotel in Lille, France, last week. The 44-year-old had vocally opposed to both Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.




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Russians are pranked into saying what they really think of Vladimir Putin

Bashir Dokhov fixed a large portrait of Putin to the lift in a Moscow residential block and recorded people's shocked reactions as they entered the lift.




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Stunned Putin is stopped in public and quizzed by a woman in rare unscripted grilling

Russian President Vladimir Putin faced what appeared to be a rare unscripted grilling from a Russian woman who asked him how much he earns on Wednesday.




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Vladimir Putin's armed forces are slammed as sexist for holding 'ridiculous' beauty contests

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Boris Johnson and counterparts including Donald Trump, Xi Jinping of China, and Vladimir Putin linked up for a discussion on how to coordinate the response.




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Ivanka Trump's idea quickly backfired when people responded to her tweet with their own shadow puppets - not shaped as an animal but a middle finger.




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Russian billionaire who played ice hockey with Putin is found shot dead

Dmitry Bosov, 52, one of the richest men in Russia, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head inside the private gym of his mansion in Moscow on Wednesday night.




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CORRECTING and REPLACING RMS Launches New Products and Models on RMS Risk Intelligence, the Unified Cloud Platform for Global Risk

Business Wire India

Please replace the release issued May 4, 2020, with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.

 

The corrected release reads: 

 

RMS LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTS AND MODELS ON RMS RISK INTELLIGENCE, THE UNIFIED CLOUD PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL RISK

 

Latest product releases include Risk Modeler 2.0, new and updated HD Models and intelligent applications purpose-built for navigating the growing risk landscape

 

As the world is changing in profound ways, so is risk. Climate change, pandemic events, and cyberattacks are threats we all now have to consider in new and innovative ways. With better understanding of risks, better decisions can be made, enabling better risk management end-to-end. Today, at the opening of its annual Exceedance conference, RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions company, announced significant new model and product releases and updates for RMS Risk Intelligence™ (RI).

 

RMS Risk Intelligence (RI), first launched in May 2019, is an open, modular, unified, and reliable cloud platform that enables advanced modeling, deeper risk insights and analytics. Leveraging a cloud-native architecture, RI delivers higher performance and scale. With the RMS Risk Intelligence platform, there is no hardware or software to maintain, focused on reducing cost of ownership. The platform enables (re)insurers, the capital market, governments, and other organizations to efficiently operate and manage all their RMS risk models in the cloud, with an intuitive user experience, integrated with advanced risk analytics. RI is compliant with all industry recognized best-in-class security requirements such as GDPR, ISO27001, C5 and SOC2.

 

This week, during the virtual Exceedance 2020 conference, RMS will demonstrate significant advancements on RMS Risk Intelligence.

 

Risk Modeler 2.0

 

Risk Modeler 2.0™ is a break-through product release at RMS, running on RMS Risk Intelligence. Risk Modeler 2.0 provides advanced portfolio and account risk analyses leveraging RMS models and is designed to meet the complex needs of risk analysts and cat modelers. The latest version of the Risk Modeler product enables real-time risk analytics and unified, high performance execution of RiskLink® models and HD Models. It can also be easily integrated with on-premises modeling and other on-premises applications as well as other cloud applications through open APIs, giving customers maximum flexibility and choice. Risk Modeler 2.0 offers an all-in-one RiskLink and RiskBrowser experience, with familiar features along with an enhanced, intuitive user interface that streamlines workflows to reduce the time and steps it takes to complete complex analyses. Risk Modeler 2.0 is a unified modeling and analytics solution for an entire organization to run portfolio and account modeling workflows, promoting real-time risk insights.

 

Risk Modeler 2.0 provides:

 
  • Global risk model coverage in North America, Europe, and Asia, with RiskLink versions 18.0 and 18.1 of core models, HD Models and specialty models
  • Future-proof architecture for model engines that unify execution of RiskLink and HD Models under one roof
  • Faster model execution. For some of the most popular RiskLink Models such as North Atlantic Hurricane, North America Earthquake, Europe Windstorm and North America Winterstorm, plus others that run four to six times faster on a one million location portfolio
  • Simplified integration with existing systems with support for a rich set of data formats, from Exposure Data Module (EDM), Results Data Module (RDM), event loss tables (ELT) to period loss tables (PLT), and year loss tables (YLT)
  • Zero-downtime upgrades and faster access to models with side-by-side model versions in one application
  • Intuitive and familiar workflows including for RiskLink and RiskBrowser users
  • Simplified usability, with batch processing of multiple steps such as the data upload process, now reduced to one-step
  • API integration with third-party tools and in-house applications to enable a fully automated modeling end-to-end process, e.g., importing exposures, running geocoding and hazard lookup services
     

Risk Modeler 2.0 is available to customers in preview today and will be generally available with RiskLink models, with initial HD models in preview, by June 2020.

 

Risk Modeler with New HD Models

 

RMS High Definition Models are the next generation of risk modeling, delivering greater analysis and granularity than ever before. RMS HD Models have now all undergone a significant upgrade as they transitioned to the Risk Modeler application, which gives them greater flexibility and computational strength. The following models are in addition to the US Flood and US Wildfire HD Models that have been available through Risk Modeler’s earlier version:

 
  • Updated Europe Inland Flood Model suite that covers 18 river basins and over 8,000 catchments across 15 countries in Europe
  • Updated Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and New Zealand Earthquake models that both include sub-peril coverage for tsunami, fire-following, liquefaction and landslides
  • Updated Japan Typhoon and Flood Model that incorporates the most recent events such as Typhoons Jebi and Hagibis
  • Europe Severe Convective Storm Models, a brand new model suite that covers 17 countries with large pan-European event sets and is fully integrated with our Europe Windstorm Model.
     

All these HD Models are available today, and will be generally available between June and September 2020 in the Risk Modeler 2.0 application. Customers can evaluate and validate these models even earlier with the preview program for Risk Modeler, or through Analytical Services. Customers can access the Europe Inland Flood and US Wildfire Models starting in June on Risk Modeler 2.0, followed by Europe Severe Convective Storm, Japan Typhoon, Japan Earthquake and New Zealand Earthquake Models coming onto Risk Modeler 2.0 shortly after. All HD models will be generally available on the new Risk Modeler 2.0 by September 2020.

 

Analytical Application Suite

 

RMS Risk Intelligence also offers a new suite of advanced applications that are tailored for specific portfolio management and underwriting tasks. These include:

 
  • ExposureIQ™ – This new application ensures portfolio managers gain deeper insights into their books with millions of locations, enabling easy discovery of hotspots, diversification and re-balancing their portfolio. The ExposureIQ application provides real-time exposure information combined with wind forecasting events and footprints from RMS Event Response to help gain a quicker assessment of potential losses before, during and after an event. Customers may gain advanced preview access to the Exposure IQ application in June and it will be generally available Sept 2020.
  • Next versions of SiteIQ™ and Location Intelligence APIs-Rigorous catastrophe peril risk assessment can now be done in seconds, early in the underwriting process. The RMS SiteIQ and Location Intelligence APIs have been enhanced in these latest versions to provide fast and easy access to over 100 trillion data points and can now deliver over 200 data points per location in some regions, with current (and expanding) coverage of over 70+ countries.
  • TreatyIQ™- Harnessing a massively scalable roll-up engine, a trusted financial model, and flexible contract languages, the TreatyIQ application enables property treaty underwriters to achieve greater return on capacity with pricing and portfolio roll-up analytics. The Treaty IQ application will be available in preview in Q3 2020 and will be generally available in Q4.
     

Cihan Biyikoglu, Executive Vice President, Product, at RMS, said: “The significant advancements that the RMS team has made across all our products, HD Models, and especially Risk Modeler have been possible through collaboration with more than 400 RMS customers this past year. The Risk Intelligence unified cloud platform, through its innovative use of the risk data lake, the Risk Data Open Standard (RDOS), unified modeling and IQ applications - securely brings greater scale, capabilities and risk insights to the market. I am also excited about what the future holds in terms of new products and technologies. Further developments of the machine learning and artificial intelligence tools used by RMS will continue to open greater opportunities.”

 

Karen White, Chief Executive Officer at RMS said, “Risk Intelligence is the world’s first comprehensive global risk platform. The complexity and connectedness of risks continually confront us - we are all experiencing the crisis of COVID-19, along with the persistent crises of climate change, extreme weather and growing cyber threats. Facing all this, our industry needs a modern risk platform that takes advantage of all manner of data, modeling and analytics, in a way that is fast, integrated, and leverages technology in new ways for better insights and outcomes. RMS promised innovation, and with Risk Modeler 2.0 and the IQ applications, we have delivered – with an integrated platform for modeling risk in the cloud at the scale and speed required to take on the future of risk.”

 

ENDS

 

Notes to editors:

 

About RMS:

 

Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) helps insurers, financial markets, corporations, and public agencies evaluate and manage global risk from natural and man-made catastrophes, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, climate change, cyber, and pandemics.

 

RMS leads the catastrophe risk industry that we helped to pioneer by marrying data and advanced model science with leading-edge technology. Leaders across multiple industries can address the risks of tomorrow through RMS Risk Intelligence™, our open, real-time exposure and risk management platform, enabling them to tap into RMS HD models, rich data layers, intuitive applications and APIs that simply integrate into existing enterprise systems.

 

RMS is a trusted solutions partner enabling effective risk management for better business decision making across underwriting, risk selection, mitigation, and portfolio management.

 

Visit RMS.com to learn more and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

 

 




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