Reinsurance News

Zurich Assurance and PFI complete £1.7bn longevity risk transfer transaction with Nationwide Pension...

Nationwide Pension Fund has completed a £1.7bn longevity risk transfer transaction with Zurich Assurance and Prudential Financial Inc (PFI), covering the longevity risk for around 7,000 in-pay members in the UK. Under the transaction, which closed...

Posted: Jun 21, 2023

Fusion Specialty announces new CEO appointments to drive global expansion

Fusion Specialty, the renowned global boutique M&A and specialty insurance services group, has recently made significant leadership changes with the appointment of two new CEOs. Michael Federer, commonly known as Mike, has been promoted to the...

Posted: Jun 21, 2023

June Severe Convective Storm outbreak insured loss estimated at $5.5bn: KCC

Based on its high-resolution SCS Reference Model, Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has estimated that the insured loss from the Severe Convective Storm (SCS) outbreak between June 10th and 19th in the US will be close to $5.5 billion. KCC recently...

Posted: Jun 21, 2023

Andy Rear & Will Allen reveal plans for significant new Lloyd’s re/insurance start-up

More than a year after its initial public offering (IPO), special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Financials Acquisition Corp, has asked for approval to extend its business combination deadline to the end of 2023, as it lays out plans to estab...

Posted: Jun 21, 2023

Global P&C insurance market set to expand, BRICs no longer on track to outpace G7: Stonybrook

In a recent report by Stonybrook, it has been projected that the global property and casualty (P&C) insurance market will experience significant growth, surpassing $3.3 trillion in annual Gross Written Premiums (GWP) by the end of the 2020s. H...

Posted: Jun 21, 2023

Services inflation, the biggest obstacle to disinflation: Swiss Re Institute

Headline CPI disinflation is set to slow in the next months, but services inflation will be its biggest obstacle as it comes down at an even slower pace, or even accelerates, according to the Swiss Re Institute. “Despite rapid interest rate rises...

Posted: Jun 21, 2023

Arbol launches blockchain-powered parametric reinsurance platform

Arbol, a global climate risk coverage platform, in collaboration with The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative, a blockchain and emerging technologies consortium, have unveiled dRe, a blockchain-powered parametric reinsurance platform. According to...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Hard market cycle is persistent, momentum continues at mid-year renewals: Swiss Re CFO

One of the key takeaways from Swiss Re’s Fireside Chat with Goldman Sachs was that management highlighted its views on the hard market momentum and the impact of interest rate increases. John Dacey, Chief Financial Officer of Swiss Re said t...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Aspen names Robert Tartaglia SVP, COO of Insurance

Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has announced the appointment of Robert Tartaglia to the newly created position of SVP, Chief Operations Officer, Insurance. Based in Aspen’s offices in Jersey City, Tartaglia will start his new role from July 3rd....

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Whitespace announces agreement with Miller to join its platform

Whitespace, the fully digital e-trading platform and a Verisk company has announced that it has reached an agreement with Miller, the specialist re/insurance broker, to join its platform. Initially, Miller is using the Whitespace Platform in its C...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Fidelis confirms IPO as it looks to take advantage of rate hardening

Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance holding company, Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited, has announced the launch of its initial public offering (IPO) of 17 million of its common shares, as the firm looks to “take advantage of the ongoin...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

AXA XL, WTW some of the founding members of new catastrophe risk & resilience research journal

The first diamond open access journal has launched for catastrophe risk and resilience research; some of its founding members include AXA XL, MS Amlin, WTW and Flood Re. A not-for-profit publication, the Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Cyber insurance GDPW values around $13.5bn in 2022: Insuramore

According to Insuramore’s global rankings, cyber insurance gross direct premiums written (GDPW) valued around $13.5 billion in 2022, rising towards $14 billion if captive insurers are also included. The firm said in a statement that this shows tha...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Everest Insurance appoints new CEO of Canada and Head of Commercial and Specialty

Everest Insurance, the insurance division of Everest Re Group, Ltd., has announced the appointment of Renato Rodrigues to President and CEO of Everest Insurance Company of Canada. He will be based in Toronto, and report to Mike Mulray, President o...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

WTW launches Property Rebuild Assessment Service in collaboration with Kroll

Global advisory and broking firm, WTW, has partnered with Kroll to launch a Property Rebuild Assessment Service, offering clients accurate valuations and advice to ensure proper property protection and avoid overpayment for insurance coverage. By...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

BMS Re names Brendan O’Brien as VP to support cat bond trading

BMS Re, the specialty reinsurance arm of the global broking group BMS, has appointed Brendan O’Brien as Vice President, based in Bermuda. O’Brien joins BMS Re from Assured Guaranty Re’s structured finance division, where he served as an underwrite...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Guy Carpenter hires Howden’s Vincenzo Cacia as CEO of Italy

Guy Carpenter, the global risk and reinsurance specialist and a business of Marsh McLennan, has announced the appointment of Vincenzo Cacia as its next CEO of Italy. The company has also announced key appointments in Italy to further strengthen it...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Aon & Zurich-backed renewal data platform Big Ticket announces launch

After four years in development, Big Ticket, an industry-backed renewal data platform, was launched at the annual Airmic conference in the UK. According to the announcement, this shared corporate data platform aims to transform the $1tn global com...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Covéa Insurance appoints new CEO and Chairman

Covéa Insurance has announced that Georges de Macedo has been appointed as the CEO of Covéa Insurance with immediate effect. The announcement comes after Adrian Furness has decided to step back as CEO of Covéa UK businesses and is leaving Covéa af...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Groupama secures €100m of reinsurance via Aon’s Randolph Re private cat bond platform

Aon’s Randolph Re has structured and placed a cat bond on an indemnity basis on behalf of Paris-based Groupama, which protects against adverse deviation of climatic losses in France. The Groupama Group is one of the leading mutual insurers i...

Posted: Jun 20, 2023

Tropical cyclones to strengthen, causing increased rainfall, larger storm surges: MS Amlin

According to MS Amlin, recent scientific findings indicate that tropical cyclones are expected to become more powerful, leading to heightened rainfall and larger storm surges. Since 1990, there has been a gradual rise in the frequency of North Atl...

Posted: Jun 19, 2023

Alliant expands Northeast brokerage team with Peter Mahoney hire

Alliant Insurance Services has named Peter Mahoney Senior Vice President within its Alliant Americas division. In his new role, based in New York, Mahoney will focus on designing, implementing, and managing risk mitigation solutions and strategies...

Posted: Jun 19, 2023

Intangic MGA unveils new early warning tool for predicting cyber breaches

Intangic MGA, a data science-driven London-based Managing General Agent (MGA), has announced the launch of the Intangic CyFi™ Dashboard, an early warning tool to provide companies with data-backed predictions for cyber breaches and offer pr...

Posted: Jun 19, 2023

Risk transfer solutions can help businesses build protection against nature loss: Marsh McLennan

Risk transfer solutions such as environmental liability and business interruption cover are emerging as vital components to help corporates build resilience against nature loss, according to Marsh McLennan recent report. As businesses face greater...

Posted: Jun 19, 2023

Risk transfer solutions can help businesses built protection against nature loss: Marsh McLennan

Risk transfer solutions such as environmental liability and business interruption cover are emerging as vital components to help corporates build resilience against nature loss, according to Marsh McLennan recent report. As businesses face greater...

Posted: Jun 19, 2023