David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Proposed Solvency II changes could "massively raise" capital burden, GDV warns

    24 April 2018

    German trade association calls for review process for reporting programme

  • Lloyd's syndicates despair after reinsurance catastrophe rate rises vanish

    23 April 2018

    Veterans express "horror" at the lack of movement in reinsurance rates after 2017's natural catastrophes, as David Walker reports

  • Reinsurers' pain laid bare in Willis Re's 2017 industry review

    23 April 2018

    Only four of 34 groups registered improved combined ratios

  • Cyber incident could increase insurers' loss ratios by 250%, association says

    13 April 2018

    The Geneva Association finds cyber insurance gap exceeding 80%

  • BaFin issues its agenda list for insurance supervision in 2018

    12 April 2018

    German regulator mixes daily topics and strategic themes for the sector

  • Severe convective storms will cost $25bn a year, researchers warn

    11 April 2018

    Figure would outstrip combined cost of hurricanes and earthquakes

  • Tier 1 debt issuance on cards as Solvency II grandfathering expires

    11 April 2018

    Nearly €5bn of grandfathered debt due to expire before 2020

  • Lloyd's syndicates detail extent of natcat losses

    10 April 2018

    Annual accounts from Lloyd's syndicates show a leap in combined ratios and losses following 2017's natural catastrophes. David Walker analyses the figures

  • Lloyd's syndicates issue capital calls exceeding $500m after horror 2017

    10 April 2018

    Insurance pools call on Names to help repair damage

  • Soaring disasters hand insurers record natcat costs

    10 April 2018

    Swiss Re finds 2017 as insurers'costliest natcat year ever