News

  • Cat bonds break $100bn barrier

    10 January 2020

    Market has grown steadily since mid-1990s

  • Middle East tensions force re/insurers to raise prices

    10 January 2020

    Period of 'disorder and unrest' will push insurers to exit certain lines, says lawyer

  • RenRe taps capital markets to extend Beazley's cyber cat cover

    10 January 2020

    The partnership follows an increase in the scale of the cyber threat

  • Belgian markets authority fines Europ Assistance

    10 January 2020

    FSMA continues its crackdown on unauthorised intermediaries

  • Australia bushfire insurance damage bill hits A$1bn

    10 January 2020

    General and life insurers finding numerous ways to help policyholders

  • Hiscox supplies capital for first cyber parametric risk transfer

    09 January 2020

    The transaction was carried out on the electronic trading platform Akinova.

  • Suncorp faces A$345m of claims from Australia bushfires

    09 January 2020

    Bushfires were the highest contributor to Suncorp's natural disaster losses in H2 2019

  • Insurity acquires geospatial analytics provider SpatialKey

    09 January 2020

    The deal aims to broaden Insurity's data and analytics offerings

  • RenRe's Edward Mishambi to chair Abir's policy committee

    09 January 2020

    Hamilton's Gemma Carreiro becomes deputy chair

  • Markel appoints QBE's former CRO to underwriting role

    09 January 2020

    The insurer sees Indian companies facing 'increasingly complex risks'