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Maiden Reinsurance files to re-domesticate to state of Vermont

Bermuda-based Maiden Reinsurance, the principal operating subsidiary of Maiden Holdings, has submitted filings to re-domesticate from Bermuda to the US state of Vermont.   21 October 2019

Insurance

AM Best calls for underwriting discipline in January renewals

AM Best has called on European re/insurers to demonstrate underwriting discipline and a continued improvement in rates and terms in 2020.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Hiscox develops parametric product to narrow the protection gap

Hiscox is developing a broad parametric product offering to help narrow the protection gap, according to Daniel Vestergren, Hiscox Re’s chair of international business.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Aon Reinsurance Solutions Germany gears up for renewals and is prepared for Brexit

With the renewals season ahead and the final Brexit outcome still uncertain, Aon’s Jan-Oliver Thofern, chief executive officer of Reinsurance Solutions Germany, said he “doesn’t expect any significant disruption for reinsurance in Germany”.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Adequacy the biggest risk facing reinsurers, says AXIS Re EMEA president

Adequacy is the biggest challenge facing the reinsurance industry, according to Andy Hottinger, president of EMEA and LatAm at AXIS Re.   21 October 2019

Insurance

A guiding light in a changing landscape

As insurers increasingly leverage technology, the role of reinsurers can be to advise and guide as well as to offer financial support and capital, Simon Wigzell of UnipolRe told Baden-Baden Today.   21 October 2019

Insurance

ILS Capital ‘pleased’ as refocus on M&E retro aids profits

Repositioning its book of business to better suit investor appetites is working well for ILS Capital Management, John Haggerty, the firm’s partner and managing director UK, told Baden-Baden Today.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Hannover Re’s Pickel sees cyber risks as biggest challenge for reinsurers; with climate change, nanotech and superbugs also on the radar

One of the reinsurance industry’s biggest areas of focus continues to be cyber risk, said Michael Pickel, chief executive officer of Hannover Re’s German subsidiary E+S Rückversicherung, and member of the executive board at Hannover Re.   21 October 2019

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Guy Carpenter’s Nash tells Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium “we are living in the age of intangibles”

“Technologies are already radically transforming the characteristics of risk assumed by the re/insurance market,” said James Nash, chief executive officer, international at Guy Carpenter, adding: “We are now living in the age of intangibles.”   21 October 2019

Insurance

Swiss Re CEO Reinsurance EMEA sees a ‘flight to quality’ as result of geopolitical and macroeconomic instability

Geopolitical and macroeconomic factors are creating uncertainty in the reinsurance market, causing “a flight to quality”, according to Urs Baertschi, chief executive officer, Reinsurance EMEA, and member of the group executive committee at Swiss Re.   21 October 2019

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