Sarfraz Thind

Dave Snyder: We will advocate for a greater society-wide focus on loss prevention and mitigation

Dave Snyder, vice president of policy, research and international for the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, discusses how artificial intelligence regulation has developed and how "political polarisation" has impacted firms

IMF takes a shot at private equity-backed insurers

Contagion, illiquidity risk and regulatory arbitrage... the International Monetary Fund has this week raised concerns over PE-owned insurance and advised regulators to talk more about the risks. Sarfraz Thind reports

Japan's Fair Trade commission looking into antimonopoly violations at Tokio Marine subsidiary - UPDATED

The investigation follows price fixing scandals earlier in the year

Vishal Desai: taking Mitsui Sumitomo's risk team to the Champions League

Vishal Desai already had a busy job as the chief risk officer (CRO) for MS Amlin in London when he got the call to help parent Mitsui Sumitomo at the head office in Tokyo. Since June, he has been giving his experience and advice to the Japanese insurer's risk team, he tells Sarfraz Thind

BMA issues paper justifying PE-insurance regulatory regime

"Educational" paper comes in the wake of heightened global scrutiny of PE-insurance business

Lara addresses California's insurance emergency

Will not be pressured by "entrenched groups seeking to defend a broken status quo"

US life insurers lagging rest of industry in AI

NAIC survey finds less than 50% of life insurers are using AI and ML

PE insurers are better insulated against risks than rest of industry, AM Best says

Athene remains biggest PE-insurer as industry assets grew 15% last year

US FIO and NAIC fissures grow

NAIC's "weak" criticisms of FIO data call rankles participants

US P&C insurers record $32bn underwriting loss in first nine months