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Qatar Insurance (QIC) Group, which owns Qatar Re and Antares, posted improved profits for the first nine months of the year and solid growth driven by its reinsurance business. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Chubb’s net profits soared in the third quarter reaching $1.2 billion in the period compared with a net loss of $70 million in the same period a year earlier, when it was hit by multiple natural catastrophes. Its combined ratio for the period was 90.9 percent compared with 110.8 percent in the same period a year earlier. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Hong Kong-based blockchain company Galileo Platforms has secured $2 million Series A funding from specialist property/casualty reinsurer Greenlight Capital Re to accelerate its growth. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings has bolstered its board of directors with the appointment of a senior executive from Deutsche Bank. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based Fidelis Insurance Holdings has revealed plans to establish a re/insurer in Ireland, which it said will allow it to take advantage of opportunities in the European Economic Area. 23 October 2018
Insurance
Swiss Re has appointed Tavaziva Madzinga as new chief executive officer (CEO) of UK & Ireland (UKI), succeeding Frank O'Neill who left the reinsurer in September. 23 October 2018
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Swiss Re estimates its preliminary combined claims burden from recent large natural catastrophes in the third quarter of 2018 at approximately $1.1 billion, net of retrocession and before tax, dominated by weather-related losses in Japan. 18 October 2018
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Japanese conglomerate Softbank Group continues to hunt for ways to accelerate the digital upheaval in the insurance industry, including tie-ups with unspecified reinsurance players, said David Thevenon, dealmaker of the company’s Vision Fund, according to a Reuters Oct. 16 report. 18 October 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings (RenRe) estimates losses from third quarter 2018 catastrophe events will have a net negative impact of approximately $155 million on its third quarter 2018 results of operations. 18 October 2018
Insurance
UK small businesses are being targeted with an average of 65,000 attempted cyber-attacks every day and at least one small business in the UK is successfully hacked every 19 seconds, according to a Hiscox report. 18 October 2018
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