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Insurance
The trend towards globalisation, digitisation and intangible assets is changing the risk landscape at an unprecedented rate. Intelligent Insurer heard from executives at the Airmic Conference 2017 in Birmingham, UK, about the current opportunities and potential threats. 23 June 2017
Insurance
The insurance sector is accepting that disruptive technologies will transform the way the industry has been operating over the past decades. As a consequence, traditional insurers have decided that the only way to avoid a shrinking business is to take action and get involved with the thriving insurtech start-up industry through cooperation and M&A. 20 June 2017
Insurance
A dramatic surge in cybercrime and an increasing awareness of the risk among the population has reassured the industry that cyber insurance will develop into an important area in personal lines insurance. 15 June 2017
Insurance
The London Market, along with its flagship Lloyd’s, is falling behind in the important high-growth Asian insurance market as well as in major emerging markets such as Latin America. 13 June 2017
Reinsurance
Swiss Re is engaging in an initiative to persuade governments in Europe to create schemes that will enable private re/insurers to expand the coverage of flood and earthquake risks. 8 June 2017
Insurance
Separation between lines of business might be rational and convenient but it is inevitable that the differentiation will gradually disappear and integration will take its place, writes Yannis Spanoudakis from Matrix Brokers. 5 June 2017
Insurance
The increasingly litigious nature of society and corporate life means that a robust D&O policy is now critical for companies wishing to recruit quality staff. But formulising the right policy with the right covers and terms and conditions is equally important – for the sake of both the insured and the company buying the coverage, Dav Khalaghizadeh, head of Commercial D&O, at Aspen Insurance, tells Intelligent Insurer. 1 June 2017
Insurance
The first deadline for the first full set of Solvency II reports may have passed without incident – on May 22 – but one jaded actuary known as ‘Manuel the Scandinavian Actuary’ got in touch to vent his concerns around what the once well-intended regulation has become and why the industry is now grappling with a counterproductive ‘monster’ unlikely to stand the imminent test of insurtech disruption. 30 May 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
The ILS market is seeing a boom in activity in 2017. Bill Dubinsky, managing director & head of ILS at Willis Towers Watson, casts an eye over the year so far. 25 May 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
ILS issuance in the second quarter of 2017 has to date surpassed the quarterly total from the same period of 2016, according to Paul Schultz, CEO of Aon Securities. 25 May 2017
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