Reinsurance News

HDI Global plans to expand in NA, Southeast Asia & Middle East

HDI Global, a commercial and specialty lines insurer, has launched its new strategy for 2026 through 2029, “Xcelerate29”, targeted at selective international expansion and driving excellence in core business. The insurer will focus on expanding it...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Arch Insurance International names new D&O and FI Underwriting Managers

Arch Insurance International has announced the appointments of Antony Hope as Directors & Officers (D&O) Underwriting Manager and Sangeetha Mani as Financial Institutions (FI) Underwriting Manager. As part of the Executive Assurance divisi...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

EMEA businesses need to strengthen cyber resilience for the AI era: Aon

EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) businesses believe they are unprepared for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyber threats, a recent Aon poll revealed, highlighting the opportunity to strengthen AI-era cyber resilience. Polling during...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

PIC completes £113m buy-in with the Sopra Steria Retirement Benefits Scheme

PIC, a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension schemes, has completed a £113 million full buy-in with the Steria Management Plan Section of the Sopra Steria Retirement Benefits Scheme, successfully securing the benefits of all 355 Section me...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Zurich renews aggregate treaty, cites overall favourable pricing & stable conditions

Insurer Zurich renewed its global aggregate catastrophe treaty at January 1st with an uplift in capacity, and also added cyber coverage to its global top catastrophe excess of loss treaty, and secured a higher retention for its Europe all perils r...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Santam becomes first BRICS-based insurer to set up presence in India GIFT City

South African short-term insurer Santam has been granted a licence to establish a reinsurance branch office at the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), India’s first operational greenfield smart city and International Financial Serv...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Zurich’s P&C GWP surpassed $50bn for the first time in 2025

Large insurer Zurich delivered strong top-line growth in 2025, as its property & casualty (P&C) segment exceeded gross written premiums (GWP) of $50 billion for the first time, a 5% increase like-for-like, as the segment’s business operati...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

AXA XL promotes two leaders within Specialty Team Americas

AXA XL, the property, casualty and specialty risk division of AXA, has confirmed the advancement of Mikki Williams and Doug Schmude to senior positions within its Specialty Team Americas. The moves are part of the company’s ongoing efforts to rein...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

MNRB Q3’25 revenue rises 17.8% driven by Malaysian Re

MNRB Holdings Berhad (MNRB) announced its financial results for the third quarter ended Dec 31, 2025, reporting a net profit of RM151 million, up from RM115.9 million a year earlier, with revenue rising 17.8% year-on-year to RM973.9 million from R...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Nick Lamparelli appointed Chief Programme Officer at Algorithmic Insurance Services

Algorithmic Insurance Services, Inc., trading as LIRG, a specialist re/insurance platform focused on building, incubating and scaling managing general underwriters (MGUs) and managing general agents (MGAs) has appointed Nick Lamparelli as its new...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Synthetik’s modelled scenarios suggest UK SRCC losses could exceed £4bn

Synthetik Insurance Technologies’ recent report highlighted the potential for losses stemming from strikes, riots and civil commotion (SRCC) to spread across the UK, with some modelled scenarios exceeding £4 billion. The report takes the form of f...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Hymans Robertson promotes Tom Caron to Operations Lead for its Risk Transfer team

Hymans Robertson, a pensions and financial services consultancy, has announced the promotion of Tom Caron to Operations Lead of its Risk Transfer team. In this role, Caron will have operational responsibility for the team, leading on resourcing, p...

Posted: Feb 19, 2026

Suncorp weighs additional reinsurance protection amid favourable conditions

With natural hazard costs rising sharply to AU$1.319 billion in H1 2026, Suncorp executives have indicated the group may revisit its use of additional protections, including the potential purchase of a new aggregate reinsurance treaty, amid increa...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Former KPMG international tax specialist joins Gallagher’s Private Equity and M&A practice

Gallagher, a global insurance broking and risk management company, has announced the appointment of Adriana Carvalho Assuncao, a specialist international tax and M&A lawyer, as a Director within its fast-growing Private Equity and M&A prac...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Applied Systems reports Q4’25 Canadian commercial insurance premium trends

Applied Systems, an insurance technology provider serving brokers, insurers and agencies, has released its fourth quarter 2025 findings from the Applied Commercial Index, which tracks premium rate movements across the Canadian commercial insurance...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

BayPine to acquire US independent insurance broker Relation for AI-driven expansion

BayPine, a private investment firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Relation Insurance Services, a US independent insurance broker, from Aquiline Capital Partners LP in an undisclosed transaction. According to the announcement,...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Capital management, portfolio quality prioritised over growth, says Conduit Re CEO

Conduit Re, a Bermuda-based global reinsurance company, has grown its top-line from nought to more than $1.2 billion in the five years since its inception, and while very robust, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Neil Eckert told Reinsurance News that...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Sompo gets regulatory approvals for $3.5bn Aspen acquisition

Sompo Holdings, Inc. has reportedly received the necessary antitrust and insurance regulatory approvals required to complete its acquisition of 100% of the issued Class A ordinary shares of Aspen Insurance through a wholly owned subsidiary of Somp...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Swiss Re appoints Anne Lohbeck as Chief Risk Officer for P&C Re

Zurich-domiciled global reinsurance company Swiss Re has appointed Anne Lohbeck as Chief Risk Officer for P&C Re, effective 1st May 2026. Lohbeck will report to Bernhard Kaufmann, Group Chief Risk Officer, and join the Risk Management Executiv...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Verisk caps off 2025 with revenue of $3.07bn

Verisk, a strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, has reported total revenue of $3.073 billion for 2025, an increase of 6.6% compared with 2024. According to the firm, underwriting revenues rose 7.7% from...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Flood risk intensifies as insurance protection lags across the US: Triple-I

The Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), a US-based trade association representing the insurance industry and providing research and data on risk trends, reports that 2025 saw a rapid succession of deadly floods across the country, undersco...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Fidelis Insurance promotes O’Donovan to Group Chief Actuary

Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited, the Bermuda-domiciled re/insurer, has promoted Shane O’Donovan as Group Chief Actuary. In his new role, O’Donovan will continue to report to Jonny Strickle, Group Managing Director, who continues to oversee the...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Goosehead’s total revenue climbs 12% to $105.3m in Q4’25

Goosehead Insurance, Inc., an independent personal lines insurance agency, has reported total revenues of $105.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, representing a 12% increase compared to the same period a year earlier. Core revenue, a non-GAA...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

BMS launches new Accident & Health division with five senior appointments

BMS, the independent insurance and reinsurance broker, has confirmed five appointments to its newly formed Accident & Health (A&H) division, based in London. The new team will work alongside BMS’s established A&H relationships, providi...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026

Pacific Life Re strengthens presence in Dutch market with €1.3bn longevity swap

Life reinsurer Pacific life Re has strengthened its presence in the Dutch market with the completion of a €1.3 billion longevity swap reinsurance transaction with Aegon Levensverzekering N.V., part of the a.s.r. group. This agreement is Pacific Li...

Posted: Feb 18, 2026