David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Governments win in Covid-19 trade credit reinsurance programmes

    07 April 2021

    Governments have profited from the support they offered trade credit insurers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Insurers say they have no regrets, but are looking forward to the end of state aid. David Walker reports

  • Lloyd's syndicates find silver linings in Covid-19 cloud

    01 April 2021

    "Not all doom and gloom," says Munich Re syndicate

  • Lloyd's "zealous but largely unproductive heavy hand" threatens syndicate success, says Meacock

    01 April 2021

    Michael Meacock hits out at costs of involvement in Lloyd's

  • Australia's flood insurance bill reaches A$470m

    30 March 2021

    IAG set to overstep annual natural perils budget again

  • Prudential, FWD and AIA review solvency under Hong Kong group capital rules

    29 March 2021

    Rating agencies say new regime is good news for creditors

  • Generali's capital injection boosts Cattolica solvency ratio

    25 March 2021

    But Cattolica's net profits plunge on goodwill write-down at Vera units

  • German mid-tier insurers post healthy 2020 numbers, but remain in Allianz's shadow

    23 March 2021

    Wertgarantie, Versicherungskammer Bayern and Alte Leipziger perform well despite coronavirus

  • Sydney flooding may prompt reinsurance rethink

    22 March 2021

    But reinsurers unlikely to vacate Australian market, practitioners say

  • R&V admits it's worse off from taking government trade credit support

    19 March 2021

    Pandemic cost German group €321m in 2020

  • Atradius post-tax profit falls 81% as provisioning leaps

    19 March 2021

    Trade insurer begins return to private, rather than state-backed, reinsurance