Reinsurance News
Bermuda-based InEvo Re, a specialist life reinsurer backed by Macquarie Asset Management, has announced the successful completion of its third reinsurance transaction since its launch earlier this year. The latest deal, finalised with a UK-based l...
Posted: Dec 23, 2025
Robert Maloney has joined Emerald Bay Risk Solutions, a specialty insurance firm, as Senior Vice President, Head of Ceded Re. Created as a “Collaborative Underwriting Carrier,” Emerald Bay Risk Solutions was launched in 2024 by co-foun...
Posted: Dec 23, 2025
Skyward Specialty, a property and casualty insurer, has partnered with AI underwriting company Sixfold to accelerate the company’s progress toward fully AI-powered underwriting across its US-based P&C lines. This collaboration reinforces Skywa...
Posted: Dec 23, 2025
QBE, an international insurer and reinsurer, has announced two leadership appointments within its Singapore Marine business. Kelly Lim has been appointed Country Lead for Cargo & TOL, while Alex Lim has been named Country Lead for Hull & L...
Posted: Dec 23, 2025
Credit rating agency AM Best has revised its outlook on Mexico’s insurance segment to negative from stable, attributing the change to the elimination of a fiscal credit on value added tax paid to third parties, including hospitals, as well as on o...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
John DePeters has been appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Commercial Insurance and Specialty, for Chubb Overseas General Insurance (COG), Chubb’s international general insurance operations, effective January 1, 2026. Based in London...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Pension Insurance Corporation plc (PIC), a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension schemes, has concluded a £230 million buy-in with the Trustee of the Peel Ports Final Salary Pension Scheme. As one of the UK’s largest port operators, Peel P...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Specialist corporate M&A tax advisor Tom Hughes has been appointed as Director of Tax Insurance within Gallagher’s rapidly expanding Private Equity and M&A (PEMA) practice across EMEA, effective January 5th, 2026. Based in the UK, Hu...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Analysts at KBW expect risk-adjusted property catastrophe reinsurance rates to decline by 15–20% during the January 2026 reinsurance renewals, with the relatively “late” season pointing to overall decreases approaching 20%. KBW stated that unchang...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Al Wathba Insurance has become the first UAE-based insurer to secure access to the Lloyd’s of London market via the London Bridge 2 PCC structure. This strategic move, finalised through Cell 27 of the London Bridge 2 PCC, an insurance-linked secur...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Everest’s Jill Beggs has said that in 2026 her firm will continue to seize emerging opportunities while delivering strategically and economically sustainable outcomes, with its long-term, disciplined perspective having guided the company thr...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Spanish insurance company MAPFRE has announced it is restructuring MAPFRE AM, its asset management company, by creating new departments and redefining responsibilities. As part of this move, MAPFRE has created a strategic project development and i...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
PointBridge, a managing general underwriter (MGU) specialising in professional liability insurance, has partnered with re/insurer Aspen to launch a new admitted physicians medical malpractice program. The new professional liability program for phy...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
BMS, an independent insurance and reinsurance broker, has announced the appointment of Charlie Emkes to the newly created role of Director of Commercial Directors and Officers (D&O) Solutions, effective January 2026. In his new role, Emkes wil...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
AM Best has placed Vantage Risk Ltd. (Bermuda) and its affiliates’ credit ratings under review with developing implications, following the announcement that Howard Hughes Holdings (HHH) will acquire Vantage Group from Carlyle and Hellman & Fri...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by Permira and Warburg Pincus, with participation from Temasek, in a transaction valued at approximately $8.4 billion. The deal also has key support from Francisco Part...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Pinpoint UK Solutions Ltd, part of AM Specialty Insurance Group (ASIG), has received Lloyd’s of London approval to operate as an authorised coverholder, strengthening its UK and London Market presence and enabling direct access to Lloyd’s via a lo...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Canada Life, an insurance and financial services company, has completed a full-scheme buy-in transaction worth £189 million with an unnamed pension scheme in the healthcare sector. This deal successfully secures the future retirement benefits of o...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Real-time risk appetite information is the number one factor influencing carrier selection, signalling a move away from legacy priorities like policy downloads, according to Ivans’ 2025 Insurance Agency-Carrier Connectivity Trends survey report. “...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
India’s reinsurance sector is poised for significant growth in 2026, fueled by government initiatives, the issuance of new insurance licences, and the emergence of GIFT City as a pioneering financial hub, according to Prateek Singhal, Executive Pr...
Posted: Dec 22, 2025
Global insurance and reinsurance company, Everest Group, has named Tim Carter as Head of North America Reinsurance Claims, and James Parker as Head of International Reinsurance Claims. Carter has been with Everest Reinsurance Company since March 2...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Global reinsurance brokerage Gallagher Re has announced that Harrison Pepper will be joining its UK-Business as an Executive Director for Marine and Energy. Pepper is joining the company from rival broker Guy Carpenter, where he served as Senior V...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
European P&C insurance run-off group Marco Capital Holdings has completed its previously announced acquisition of Dublin-based Benteler Re from Benteler Group. Incorporated in January 2003, Benteler Re is a non-life insurance Captive in run-of...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Marsh McLennan has named Mike Mathews as its Global Digital Infrastructure Leader, where he will leverage the firm’s combined expertise in risk, capital, and advisory solutions to serve clients in the rapidly growing sector. Mathews joined M...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025
Bermuda-based global insurer and reinsurer, Lancashire Holdings Limited, has reported that rating agency S&P Global Ratings has lifted its long-term issuer credit and financial strength ratings on the firm’s core re/insurance operating s...
Posted: Dec 19, 2025