Reinsurance News

QBE appoints Insaf Idelhaj as Senior Manager, Cyber Services & Risk Engineering

Commercial insurer QBE has announced the appointment of Insaf Idelhaj to the newly created role of Senior Manager – Cyber Services and Risk Engineering, supporting the delivery of QBE’s cyber insurance growth strategy. Based in Paris, Idelhaj has...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Fitch Ratings turns positive on SCOR

Fitch Ratings, a credit rating agency, has revised the outlooks of French reinsurer SCOR and its core operating subsidiaries to positive from stable. This reflects Fitch’s expectation that SCOR’s earnings will improve, particularly in...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Acquinex announces senior hires to drive European expansion

Acquinex, the specialist financial lines managing general agent (MGA), has announced a number of senior appointments across Europe as part of its wider continental expansion strategy. Antonio Jesús Sánchez Martín has been appointed Head of Souther...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

AXA Partners and bolttech partner to launch embedded insurance solutions across Europe

AXA Partners, a subsidiary of AXA Group, has partnered with bolttech, a global insurtech, to launch embedded insurance and assistance solutions across the European Union, UK and Switzerland. This new long term strategic partnership brings together...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Canopius appoints Rachel Webber as Head of Reinsurance, UK

Canopius Group, a global specialty and Property & Casualty re/insurer, has announced the appointment of Rachel Webber to the newly created role of Head of Reinsurance, UK. In this new role, Webber will be responsible for evaluating Canopius’ U...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Fairfax sells interest in Eurolife’s life insurance business for €813m

Fairfax Financial Holdings has signed a term sheet with Eurobank Ergasias Services and Holdings S.A. under which Eurobank or one of its affiliates will acquire Fairfax’s 80% stake in the life insurance business of Eurolife FFH Insurance Group Hold...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Dynamic Re names Miriam Ávila García as CUO

Dynamic Reinsurance, an underwriting agency providing facultative and treaty reinsurance, has announced the appointment of Miriam Ávila García as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO). She brings nearly three decades of re/insurance industry experience...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

WTW introduces Radar 5, the latest generation of its insurance analytics and rating software

Willis Towers Watson (WTW), an advisory, broking, and solutions company, has released the latest version of its rating and analytics software for the insurance sector, Radar 5. This new version introduces advanced features that use Generative AI t...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Howden appoints Susan Panuccio as CFO, Mark Craig to become CIO

Global insurance and reinsurance broking group Howden has announced the appointment of Susan Panuccio as its new Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with Mark Craig set to take on the new position of Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Craig steps in...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Global cat losses ease in 2025, yet annual volatility persists: Gallagher Re

Global reinsurance broking and advisory firm Gallagher Re has suggested that, despite the “manageable nature” of catastrophe activity this year so far, the industry should continue to expect annual volatility in losses in the future. A...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

India’s rapid infrastructure expansion a key driver of reinsurance growth: Howden India’s Singhal

In an interview with Reinsurance News, Prateek Singhal, Executive President & Head of Reinsurance, Howden India, explained that India’s “massive infrastructure push and the maturation of specialty risk markets” are primary drivers...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Miller adds David Robinson as CEO and Neil Ross as CUO of its MGA platform

Miller, the independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, has scaled the operations of its Managing General Agent (MGA) offering with the appointment of David Robinson as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Neil Ross as Chief Underwriting...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

INTX launches new solution designed to revolutionise ceded reinsurance management

INTX Insurance Software, a provider of fully integrated core solutions for the entire P&C insurance policy lifecycle, aims to revolutionise ceded reinsurance management with its newly launched solution, INTX ReinsureConnect. A cloud-native, AI...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Allianz UK appoints Mansoor Reehana as Head of AI

Allianz UK, part of the financial services group Allianz SE, has appointed Mansoor Reehana to the newly created role of Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI), to lead the strategic growth of AI initiatives. In his new role, Reehana will drive strat...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Xceedance receives growth investment from Portage Capital Solutions

Xceedance, a global provider of technology-driven business solutions for the insurance industry, has received a growth investment from Portage Capital Solutions, an investor focused on financial technology. With this latest investment, which gives...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Hardeep Gulati named CEO of Duck Creek Technologies

Duck Creek Technologies, a provider of software solutions for property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance, has announced the appointment of Hardeep Gulati as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding Mike Jackowski. Jackowski, wh...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Reinsurance markets aligned & disciplined heading into Baden-Baden: Antares CEO

Antares Global CEO Mike van der Straaten has suggested that a benign loss year to date, together with ample capacity and steady ILS activity, is placing some pressure on reinsurance pricing, though levels remain solid and market behaviour rational...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Chubb names Brian Church to lead international Property and Casualty Division

Property and casualty insurer Chubb has announced the appointment of Brian Church as Division President of Property and Casualty for Chubb Overseas General Insurance (COG), the company’s international general insurance division, with the appointme...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Climate X announces partnership with Fathom to strengthen global flood risk insights

Fathom, a specialist in flood risk modelling, has announced a partnership with Climate X, a provider of climate resilience analytics. Through this collaboration, Fathom’s Global Flood Model will be integrated into Climate X’s Spectra and Adapt pla...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

QBE Re appoints Cindy Foo as Head of Asia

QBE Re, the reinsurance arm of QBE Insurance Group, has announced the appointment of Cindy Foo to the newly created role of Head of Asia, Treaty. Her appointment, effective 1 December 2025, marks a significant step in the company’s strategic expan...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Insurers backed by private capital & strong regulation key to retirement solutions: BILTIR’s Courcy

Resilient insurers, powered by innovative, long-dated private capital, and operating under strong globally recognised regulatory regimes, are the solution to an ageing population with longer lifespans and shrinking public safety nets, Chairman Nat...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Mike Mulray named as Chief Underwriting Officer of Hamilton Select

Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., a specialty insurance and reinsurance provider, has announced the appointment of Mike Mulray as Chief Underwriting Officer of Hamilton Select, the Company’s US excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurer, effective O...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Marsh McLennan to rebrand as Marsh, Guy Carpenter to become Marsh Re

Insurance and reinsurance broking group Marsh McLennan has revealed that, effective January 2026, it will change its brand to Marsh. As part of the transition, Guy Carpenter will rebrand as Marsh Re in 2027, reflecting its position within the grou...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Zurich to boost digital transformation with new appointments

Global insurer Zurich has announced the appointment of Terry Powell as Group Chief Technology Officer and Cristina Ghetti as Group Head of Digital Employee Experience, both effective October 20, 2025. In his new role, Powell will lead its Group-wi...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025

Re/insurance has a role to play as nuclear investments surge: Keime, Swiss Re

Jimmy Keime, Head Engineering & Nuclear at Swiss Re, stated that nuclear investments are growing globally, with rising demand for nuclear energy to power data centres — creating both opportunities and risks for the insurance and reinsurance in...

Posted: Oct 14, 2025