Reinsurance News
Augment Risk, a risk capital and reinsurance solutions intermediary, and Cohen & Company, an asset management specialist, have entered a strategic joint venture that aims to transform the casualty reinsurance landscape by bridging the gap betw...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Fitch Ratings has revised Mercury’s outlook to Stable, citing reduced concerns over the January 2025 wildfires and their potential impact on capital and profitability, as well as improvements in the company’s renewed catastrophe reinsurance progra...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Gallagher Re, a global reinsurance brokerage and risk advisory firm, has appointed Jennifer Wen as an Executive Director for its Taiwan team. In her new role, Wen will be responsible for leading the growth and continued expansion of the reinsuranc...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance of $1.036 billion in the third quarter of 2025 has taken issuance for the nine-month period to September 30th, 2025, to $18.6 billion, which is a new annual record for the mar...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
With the world facing a $0.9 trillion cyber risk protection gap, Zurich is calling for the adoption of standardised national cyber security metrics to close it, which would involve the collaboration between governments and the private sector. This...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Willis, a WTW business, has launched a first-of-its-kind parametric policy that triggers automatically when a Red Weather Warning is issued by the UK Met Office or Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service. The policy was developed in...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, a global specialty underwriter and provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions, has announced the appointment of Hannah Hosking as Head of Distribution, Global Markets. Based in AXIS’ London office, Hosking will...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Even though the London re/insurance market has recently seen a number of merger and acquisitions (M&A) deals, this may not indicate a widespread return to M&A for all London-listed specialty re/insurers, Autonomous’ analysts suggest. The r...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
AEGIS London, which has consistently been ranked in the top quartile of Lloyd’s syndicate for over a decade, has appointed Tom Squires as Head of Distribution and Digital Trading. In his new role, Squires will lead the syndicate’s distribution str...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
The Allstate Corporation has made a series of changes to its senior leadership team, including the placement of Mario Rizzo as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the Property-Liability and Protection Services businesses. Rizzo, who was previ...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Niall Mulvey has joined Bermuda-based reinsurer PartnerRe’s Executive Leadership Team as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), Life & Health. Prior to PartnerRe, Mulvey worked at German reinsurer Hannover Re as Head of L&H Greater China,...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Howden, the global insurance intermediary group, has expanded its Aviva-led, Lloyd’s-accredited renewable energy facility across its UK retail network of renewable energy hubs. According to the firm, this expansion follows a successful pilot progr...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
HDI UK & Ireland has announced a number of executive appointments across its underwriting functions, effective 1st October 2025. Kate Sutcliffe, formerly HDI’s UK and Ireland Director of Property, has been appointed Chief Underwriting Officer...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Peter Cullum-backed Minority Broker Partnerships (MBP) has made a significant investment in drone specialist MGA Moonrock Insurance for a minority shareholding. The Series A investment supports Moonrock’s expansion in the drone and eVTOL insurance...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
Sompo Asia Pacific, part of Sompo International Holdings Ltd., has announced the promotion of Li Li Leong to Head of Actuarial, Singapore. In her new role, Leong will lead Sompo Insurance Singapore’s Actuarial Division, responsible for full regula...
Posted: Oct 02, 2025
CyberCube, a provider of cyber risk analytics for the re/insurance industry, has secured a sizeable investment of over $180 million from Spectrum Equity, a new cornerstone investor, which will be used to fuel the future development of the firmR...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
Global fintech Acrisure, has completed the acquisition of Heartland Payroll from Global Payments, Inc. for $1.1 billion. Heartland Payroll is considered one of the largest payroll and human capital management (HCM) companies in the United States....
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
Insurwave, an AI-driven exposure management company for specialty insurance, has announced the appointment of Adrian Morgan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Known for driving digital transformation and scaling technology solutions for the insuran...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
According to Swiss Re, the global reinsurer, insurers can use reinsurance strategically to improve balance sheet efficiency and manage liquidity in response to ongoing market volatility. Swiss Re observes that in 2025, UK life insurers face pressu...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon has announced the appointment of Gerardo Polanco as General Manager of the company’s Iberia Reinsurance team, effective immediately. In his new role, Polanco will be responsible for fostering coll...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
The California Department of Insurance announced that Commissioner Ricardo Lara supports Governor Gavin Newsom’s new executive order on insurance stability, calling it a key step toward protecting homeowners and communities across the state. “The...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
Global reinsurer Hannover Re has announced key leadership transitions and appointments within its Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) and retrocession activities. Henning Ludolphs, Managing Director Retrocession and Capital Markets at Hannover Re, w...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
With loss activity in 2025 proving “exceptionally benign” since the LA wildfire losses in Q1, Autonomous has suggested the big four European reinsurers (Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re, and SCOR) could see a collective benefit of almo...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc., the parent company of managing general agent Neptune Flood, has announced the pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) for the sale of 18,421,053 shares of its Class A common stock at $20 per share. Neptune fil...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025
Chariot Re, a Bermuda-based Class E life and annuity reinsurance company, has appointed Andrew Preston as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective October 1st, 2025. Co-sponsored by MetLife and General Atlantic and backed by Chubb and other in...
Posted: Oct 01, 2025