05:03 AM EDT, 06/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Markel Group's ( MKL ) Markel Insurance said Monday it has completed its acquisition of marine-focused managing general agent Meco Group after receiving regulatory approvals. The company said the acquired business will trade as Meco Specialty as part of the specialty division of Markel International's wholesale operation. ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's financial regulator BaFin is using artificial intelligence to help it spot market abuse and suspicious patterns in trading, increasing the chances of catching offenders, a top official warned on Monday. BaFin President Mark Branson said the supervisor had started using artificial intelligence last year in its alert and market analysis system. We can already see from this...

(Reuters) -Gilead Sciences' ( GILD ) Trodelvy in combination with Merck's ( MRK ) blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda lowered the risk of an aggressive type of breast cancer worsening by 35% when used as an initial treatment, according to results of a large trial presented on Saturday. The data is likely to change how patients are treated following a diagnosis for...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...