Munich Re to establish regional marine unit in HK
06 October 2014
Munich Re is to set up an Asia-Pacific marine reinsurance underwriting centre in Hong Kong next year…
06 October 2014
Munich Re is to set up an Asia-Pacific marine reinsurance underwriting centre in Hong Kong next year…
06 October 2014
The Bank of England and other regulators are developing a regime to improve the accountability of key executives of insurance companies…
06 October 2014
The number of cyber-related security incidents increased 48% to 42.8 million last year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers worldwide survey…
06 October 2014
The US Federal Reserve has launched a “quantitative impact study” to evaluate the effects of its revised regulatory capital framework for insurance companies…
06 October 2014
The global insurance-linked securities market grew 38% to a record issuance volume of $US4.6 billion ($5.2 billion) in the second quarter of this year, according to a…
29 September 2014
New York’s Department of Financial Services says insurers have a key role to play in helping to prevent an “armageddon-type” cyber event…
29 September 2014
Europe has a 52.6% share of the marine insurance market, with Asia-Pacific on 25.5% and Latin America 10.1%, according to data from the International Union of Marine Insurance…
29 September 2014
Lloyd’s says gross written premium fell 4.1% to £14.8 billion ($27.4 billion) in the six months to June 30…
29 September 2014
The US insurance industry is growing nervous as expiry of the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorisation Act draws closer…
29 September 2014
US insurers are recovering from the global financial crisis with record profits and capital surpluses, according to the Federal Insurance Office…
29 September 2014
Cyber attacks are on the rise and interest in insuring against them is growing, according to a new Guy Carpenter Emerging Risks report…
29 September 2014
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has called for tighter regulation of motor insurance comparators…
29 September 2014
A lawsuit against insurers by US rail passenger company Amtrak hinges on the definition of “flood” and whether damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy was one or several occurrences…
29 September 2014
The British Bankers Association has unveiled a new weapon against cyber attacks, fraud, money laundering and bribery in the banking and financial sector…
22 September 2014
Big Data could lead to the creation of a single lifestyle policy covering all an individual’s liabilities, according to Aon Benfield…
22 September 2014
Swiss Re Group CEO Michel Liès says he is unfazed by the price-sensitive reinsurance market and insists there are still opportunities to grow…
22 September 2014
The Chinese Government has granted Lloyd’s a licence to establish a branch office in Beijing, 14 years after the market set up a representative office there…
22 September 2014
The US insurance industry has welcomed legislation stating insurance companies should not be forced to comply with bank-centric capital standards…
22 September 2014
The flood of new capital into reinsurance is continuing to reshape the market, according to a report from Guy Carpenter…
22 September 2014
Hannover Re expects intense competition for January treaty renewals, with sustained pressure on prices and conditions – but it says catastrophe reinsurance rates…