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German multinational insurer and asset manager based in Munich; its Allianz Trade unit offers trade credit insurance and economic research.
Swiss Re projects data center premiums rising from $10.6 billion to $24.2 billion by 2030 while outage and data-loss risk has little loss history behind it. Losses above policy limits on such projects fall on operators and the lenders financing them.
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Britain and Germany launched an Industrial Tech Corridor, backed by Allianz, Bosch, RWE and Siemens, to connect AI scale-ups with industrial demand. Its first step is a CEO roundtable later this year, so a sales route into those buyers is still a plan.
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Heidi Alexander's rolling stock strategy lets Great British Railways buy new trains outright instead of leasing from firms paid £2.7bn in 2024/25. The change covers new orders, so owners such as JPMorgan Chase and PSP have fewer new trains to put their capital into.
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Amazon pledged more than $1 billion over five years to the US communities that host its data centers. Allianz says local opposition delayed or blocked $130 billion of projects in the first quarter, and next to that the price Amazon is paying for consent is small.
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Veridion raised $20m on the argument that quarterly-refreshed company data is history, and Experian says the resulting signals let it score businesses conventional credit files could not see. The release itself leaves open what counts as one of the 642 million companies.
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Hyperscalers absorb about two-thirds of AI outlay, so rack-scale kit is now packaged for sovereign clouds, neoclouds and enterprises that cannot staff a GPU fabric team.
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