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Capacity generated by retained earnings will hold its ground on discipline: Munich Re
9 September 2025   No new wave of third-party capital; buoyancy is now self-funded by incumbent carriers’ earnings. Munich Re's Carsten Prussog examines the implications.

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Technology
Supply chain vulnerabilities as the ‘Achilles heel’ of modern infrastructure, can trigger cascading consequences across entire industries worldwide.
Insurance
A future cyber product could have a property-cat lens, said an Intelligent Insurer panel.
Insurance
Six experts at the leading edge of parametric insurance share insights on where this type insurance is heading and what global changes and technological advances will help it get there.
Insurance
Six things we learned from our Intelligent Insurer expert panel about how Parametrics are evolving and how they are changing the re/insurance landscape.
Insurance
Adoption of new exclusions is essential as pre-LMA clause frameworks ‘leave too much ambiguity’, says panel of industry executives.
Technology
As the world attempts to find a way of understanding, managing, and transferring the risk associated with pandemics, much can be learned from the extensive work the insurance industry has done to better handle cyber risk, says a new report by CyberCube, with contributions from Munich Re and Metabiota.
Reinsurance
Pandemic-related losses are large but reinsurers look to have avoided the worst with a combination of financial discipline and the arrival of a hard market. Will efforts to inoculate themselves against the pandemic in H1 continue to be effective into the second half of the year, and how will it affect the wider market? Intelligent Insurer speaks to Robert Mazzuoli, director at Fitch Ratings, to find out more.
Technology
AI offers the opportunity to boost the skills and value of underwriters as it ‘rides sidecar’ to people, providing on the job learning, says Richard Hartley, CEO of insurtech Cytora.
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30 July 2025   Appointee to lead key US and Canada programmes in expanded remit.
29 July 2025   Insured losses in the first half of year are the second-highest total on record.
24 July 2025   Wenning, who has been with the reinsurer for eight years, is exiting for personal reasons.
22 July 2025   Reinsurer benefits from quiet second-quarter major losses.
18 July 2025   Startup adds first major US customer to platform, which helps organisations quantify cyber risk in dollars.
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