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Insurance
AXA XL Risk Consulting has partnered with Expert System, a specialist in the use of artificial intelligence (AI), to help its underwriters make better decisions to when assessing property risk engineering risks. 10 January 2019
Insurance
Re/insurance broker Aon has partnered with SBC InsurTech, a company focused on innovation programmes for the insurance industry, help its clients make better decisions around how they might partner with and invest in insurtech start-ups. 10 January 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Freddie Mac, the US government-sponsored enterprise that provides liquidity to the US mortgage markets by buying mortgages from lenders, transferred a new type of risk into the reinsurance markets as part of an ongoing expansion of its risk transfer programme. 4 January 2019
Insurance
Australia-based Insurance Australia Group (IAG) expects claim costs of A$169 million ($120.2 million) from the latest Sydney storms fully eroding the deductible attached to the calendar 2018 aggregate cover. 21 December 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Bermuda will “keep on keepin’ on” and doing what it is doing when it comes to insurance-linked securities (ILS), says Greg Wojciechowski, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. Here he looks back at 2018 and forward to 2019 as the jurisdiction continues to work hard to develop and keep its solid platform. 19 December 2018
Insurance
S&P Global Ratings has rewarded strategic changes made by AXIS Capital, which include reducing its exposure to legacy liabilities generated by the Novae Group, by revising its outlook on the company’s ratings to stable from negative. 13 December 2018
Insurance
The recent wildfires in California will cause some $9 billion in insured losses, making them the deadliest and costliest wildfire catastrophes in California's history, according to California’s insurance commissioner Dave Jones. 13 December 2018
Insurance
Foreign reinsurers operating in India will now stand a better chance of winning business in the country after the Insurance Regulatory Authority of India (IRDAI) changed its rules around how domestic insurers buy reinsurance, according to media reports in India. 13 December 2018
Insurance
Re/insurers can capitalise on a growing capital efficiency gap caused by the impact of climate change if they can educate buyers and develop products able to solve some of these challenges, according to Greg Lowe, global head of resilience and sustainability at Aon, in a new report called ‘Weather volatility and chronic climate risk: a growing capital efficiency gap.’ 13 December 2018
Insurance
Haven Holdings, a specialist runoff insurer based in Puerto Rico, has appointed Gordon Rowell as the chief operating officer of Time Insurance Company, a business it recently acquired from Interfinancial, a subsidiary of Assurant. 13 December 2018
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