Day: September 30, 2020

HDFC Life enters into partnership with YES Bank to sell insurance policies

Lenore Staats 2 months ago


HDFC Life on Tuesday said it has entered into a partnership with YES Bank to sell policies to the bank’s customers.


HDFC Life and YES Bank Limited entered into a corporate agency (CA) arrangement, it said in a release.



This CA arrangement will enable customers of YES Bank to avail HDFC Life’s wide range of life insurance products, which include solutions for protection, savings and investment, retirement and critical illness, it added.


“There is a huge potential for insurance coverage across life and health protection, savings and annuity products

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Senator Thom Tillis speaks to FOX8 about how his personal life shapes his political goals

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Incumbent Senator Thom Tillis says he rarely publicly discussed his upbringing until the 2020 election season but points to it as what he calls a “huge contrast” between he and challenger Cal Cunningham.  

“I grew up with six kids. My father, my mother didn’t get high school diplomas,” Tillis said.

Tillis says his family moved seven times before he turned 16, going wherever his parents could find work. This resulted in Tillis going to five different elementary schools and three middle schools. 

“Grew up in trailer parks that are still standing,” Tillis recalled. “One in Nashville and one in Jacksonville,

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IIoT Blind Spots: Where are They and Do You Have Them?

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

While these areas are seeing a gradual adoption of advanced technology, they are key links in the production chain that must be integrated to realize higher levels of automation, according to a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence.

Automation is typically envisioned as robots or sensors on a machine, but automation strategies now extend beyond individual machines to encompass entire operations, and the key to linking an entire operation together is a comprehensive IIoT strategy.

Individual machines within an operation need to be prepared and designed to easily link up with a larger IIoT network, in order to implement a

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LIC Housing plans to raise Rs 50,500 crore through debt securities

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

The company has devised a 4-R strategy – retail, recovery, retention and re-engineering – as the guiding force for fighting Covid-19.

Mortgage lender LIC Housing Finance will seek shareholders’ approval at its annual general meeting (AGM) on September 28 to raise up to Rs 50,500 crore. The fund raising will be done by issuing debt securities or other hybrid instruments on a private placement basis. The company plans to raise the amount in one year by issuing debt instruments in one or more tranches, till the next AGM.

In its annual report released on Wednesday, the housing finance company has

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