Reinsurance News

Georgina Smart named HDI Head of Global Risk Bloodstock & Equine

HDI Global, a commercial and specialty lines insurer, has announced the appointment of Georgina Smart as Head of Global Risk Bloodstock & Equine, based in London. Smart will lead the insurer’s bloodstock and equine underwriting and distributio...

Posted: Oct 16, 2025

Consilium launches stand-alone stock facility to improve inventory coverage

Consilium, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance wholesale broker, has announced that its Cargo Risk Solutions division has launched a stand-alone stock facility designed to deliver improved pricing, lower deductibles, and broader wording...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Meta’s Prashant Ratanchandani joins Lemonade’s Board of Directors

Lemonade, the AI-powered digital insurance company, has announced the addition of Prashant Ratanchandani to its Board of Directors. Ratanchandani currently serves as Meta’s Vice President of Engineering for AI Products, where he leads the engineer...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

RGA makes strategic investment in FoxPath Capital Partners

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), a provider of life and health reinsurance, has announced a strategic investment in FoxPath Capital Partners, a specialist credit secondary investment firm. Based in New York and founded in 2023, FoxPath is a spe...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Balavant Insurance Group names Michael Sothen CFO and Omeed Kazemi COO

Balavant Insurance Group, a provider of specialty insurance solutions, has announced two senior executive appointments to strengthen its leadership team. Michael Sothen has been named Chief Financial Officer, and Omeed Kazemi joins as Chief Operat...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Lee Equity Partners closes $1.6bn reinvestment in McLarens Global

Lee Equity Partners, LLC, a middle-market private equity firm, has announced the closing of a $1.6 billion reinvestment in McLarens Global Limited, a global independent provider of insurance services, extending its long-term partnership. Founded i...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Canada Life appoints Dominic Carpenter as Commercial & Strategy Director, BPA

Canada Life has announced the appointment of Dominic Carpenter as Commercial & Strategy Director, Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA), effective 6th October 2025. In his new role, Carpenter will lead the commercial development of Canada Life’s bulk...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Brokers urge industry collaboration to close non-standard insurance protection gap

With surging demand for non-standard insurance, brokers are urging industry collaboration, warning that the gap in coverage is widening, according to a recent survey by Prestige Underwriting. The survey found that 79% of brokers have reported an i...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

CFC gains approval to offer carbon credit insurance for CORSIA scheme

CFC, an insurance provider with a focus on carbon-related risks, has announced its approval as one of the first private insurers authorised to issue policies that support the eligibility of carbon credits under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

Moody’s: UK life and P&C insurers maintain stability amid economic pressures

According to Moody’s Ratings, the outlook for the UK life insurance and property and casualty (P&C) sectors remains stable, even as economic challenges continue to weigh on the broader market. Moody’s notes that while slower economic growth ma...

Posted: Oct 15, 2025

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