Reinsurance News

Mosaic Insurance announces key leadership changes to strengthen global market presence

Mosaic Insurance, a specialty underwriter, has announced key leadership changes to support its continued expansion. Yosha DeLong has been promoted to Global Engagement Officer, while cyber insurance veteran Brian Bonkoski joins the firm as Global...

Posted: Jun 04, 2025

Cyberwrite and Markel Insurance expand partnership to advance cyber underwriting

Cyberwrite, a cyber insurance technology firm, and Markel Insurance, the insurance operations within Markel Group, have expanded their partnership to enhance underwriting capabilities, broker enablement, and cyber risk modelling across Europe. Mar...

Posted: Jun 04, 2025

Howden appoints Peter Steiner as Executive Director Agriculture & Nature Parametrics

Global insurance and reinsurance broker Howden has appointed Peter Steiner as Executive Director, Agriculture & Nature Parametrics. Steiner joins Howden after nine years at Syngenta, where he began in May 2016 as Global Financial Solutions Man...

Posted: Jun 04, 2025

Ategrity Specialty could raise up to $106.7m from IPO

Ategrity Specialty Holdings LLC has launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 6,666,667 shares of common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). Prior to the closing o...

Posted: Jun 04, 2025

Aon appoints Chris Knutson as Chief Claims Officer for Global Broking Centre

Global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has announced the appointment of Chris Knutson as Chief Claims Officer, Global Broking Centre (GBC). In this role, Knutson will lead more than 100 claims professionals dedicated to the London Market. He...

Posted: Jun 04, 2025

Data Council leads industry push for shared data standards across London market

The Data Council, a cross-market body made up of senior representatives from key London Market organisations, has launched a high-profile campaign to encourage the widespread adoption of a single shared data standard. Backed by industry CEOs, the...

Posted: Jun 04, 2025

Reinsurers have ‘three organic options’ to strengthen market position: BCG

As concentration in reinsurance increases, those players who want to secure a stronger place in the market, or just stay relevant, have three organic options: expand their offerings, expand where they play, or expand their relationships, Boston Co...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Howden Re and Rivonia Road Capital expand financing for insurance professionals

Howden Re, the reinsurance, capital markets, and strategic advisory division of Howden, an insurance intermediary group, has formed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Rivonia Road Capital, a US-based credit investment firm. This collaboration...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Mangrove completes inaugural cat reinsurance program

Mangrove Property Insurance Company has finalised its catastrophe reinsurance program for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, protecting the firm and its policyholders to the 175-year return period and for events exceeding any in the historical re...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Allianz UK appoints Akhil Lalwani as Chief Data Officer amid data function overhaul

Allianz UK, part of the global financial services provider Allianz Group, has appointed Akhil Lalwani as its new Chief Data Officer (CDO). The move follows the company’s decision to create a centralised data function, aimed at aligning its data st...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

M&A becoming essential for insurance brokers as organic growth slows: Evercore ISI

Evercore ISI, an independent investment banking advisory and research firm, highlights a significant shift in the insurance brokerage industry. As organic growth begins to slow due to broader economic factors, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) ar...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Skyward Specialty launches new Aviation underwriting unit

Property and casualty insurer Skyward Specialty has entered the specialised aviation market with the launch of a new Aviation underwriting unit following the acquisition of Acceleration Aviation Underwriters assets last year. Chris Jones, founder...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Arch Re promotes Soares, Jal and Seyller to key leadership roles

Arch Reinsurance Group (Arch Re), the reinsurance arm of Arch Capital Group, has announced the promotions of William Soares to President of Arch Re Ltd.; Pierre Jal to President of Arch Reinsurance Europe Underwriting dac (Arch Re Europe); and Dav...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Accredited appoints Jon Wood as Head of Reinsurance, UK & Europe

Accredited Insurance Program Management (Accredited), a global program manager, has announced the appointment of Jon Wood as Head of Reinsurance, UK & Europe. Wood brings 25 years of reinsurance experience to the role. He joins Accredited from...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

HCI lifts reinsurance limit to over $3.5bn at June 1 renewal

HCI Group, a Tampa-based insurance holding company specialising in property and casualty coverage, has finalised its catastrophe reinsurance programme for the 2025-2026 treaty year, which runs from June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2026, securing more...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Miller completes acquisition of specialist reinsurance broking group AHJ

Specialist re/insurance broking group Miller has completed its acquisition of AHJ Holdings Ltd (AHJ), the ultimate parent company of Alwen Hough Johnson Limited and AHJ Europe AS. The transaction closed on June 2, following the receipt of all nece...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Ilsa Derfus appointed Coalition’s Director of Capacity

Coalition, an active insurer focused on preventing digital risks, has announced the appointment of Ilsa Derfus as its Director of Capacity. In her new role, Derfus will be responsible for managing Coalition’s relationships with carrier partners an...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Start Network and Aon launch reinsurance mechanism to strengthen climate crisis funding

Start Network, a coalition of over 50 humanitarian charities, and Aon, a global re/insurance broker, have partnered to launch an innovative reinsurance product to strengthen Start Ready’s ability to provide early, anticipatory funding for climate...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

AIG’s UK CEO Chris Rash joins LMG’s board

The London Market Group, a market-wide body representing the specialist commercial re/insurance broking and underwriting communities in London, has appointed Chris Rash, CEO of AIG UK, to its board. Rash, who joins as AIG UK’s representative of th...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

RGA announces JPY 150bn coinsurance transaction with Dai-ichi Life

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), a global life and health reinsurer, has reached an agreement with The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company for an RGA subsidiary to reinsure JPY 150 billion in statutory reserves through coinsurance. The transaction...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Harris to succeed Duclos as Chair of QBE Capital

QBE Insurance has appointed Christopher Harris as Chair of QBE Capital, effective 9 May 2025. Harris will serve as the successor to Dave Duclos, the outgoing Chair of QBE Capital, who will retire in July 2025. QBE stated that Duclos’s 9-year...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

AM Best maintains stable outlook on Italy’s non-life insurance segment

AM Best has maintained its stable outlook on Italy’s non-life insurance segment driven by natural catastrophe risks gaining relevance, expected maintained profitability, and stable growth sustained by underwriting discipline. Natural catastrophe r...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Swiss Re CorSo appoints Robert Hunziker as Head of Asia

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance arm of the global reinsurer, has appointed Robert Hunziker as Head of Asia (China, Japan, and Southeast Asia). Readers may recall that this appointment is part of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions&...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Global Parametrics and One Acre Fund deliver parametric crop cover for Nigerian farmers

Global Parametrics, part of the CelsiusPro Group, has partnered with One Acre Fund to provide financial protection for smallholder farmers in Nigeria against crop losses caused by drought and end-of-season excess moisture, through the Natural Disa...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025

Lockton Re names Baldwin Senior Broker, Retro and Property Specialty Division

David Baldwin has become the latest addition to Lockton Re’s Retrocession and Property Specialty Division, having been recently appointed Senior Broker. With over three decades of experience in international reinsurance broking, Baldwin offers a w...

Posted: Jun 03, 2025