One key topic: Whether new rules would cover just independent agents, who work for themselves and sell products from two or more insurers, or so-called "captive" agents, such as the typical State Farm agent, who sell products of just one insurer.

FORBES: Sunlight For Insurance

Yucho wants to act as a sales agent for third-party products when portable pensions are introduced later this year.

ECONOMIST: Japanese finance

They would collect environmental samples such as soil, rubble or vegetation that may have been in contact with the chemical warfare agent and may still contain characteristic degradation products or even traces of it.

BBC: How to investigate chemical weapons allegations