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The rise of FABNs: what Fortitude Re’s $500m debut means for Bermuda

Will the flexibility of funding agreement-backed notes be the answer for illiquid liabilities and capital?   16 October 2025

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Soft reinsurance market won’t turn in 2017: Fitch

Premium rates are set to further decline in reinsurance throughout 2017 due to overcapacity and sluggish demand, according to Fitch Ratings.   16 May 2017

Insurance

Europe’s big four might seek M&A in 2018

With the pressures on reinsurers unlikely to change over the next 12 months due to alternative capital providers putting ever more pressure on their underwriting performance, Fitch believes more mergers & acquisitions could be triggered in 2018.   10 September 2017

Insurance

Swiss market remains resilient despite multiple challenges

The Swiss insurance market remains resilient, despite the challenge of consistently low interest rates and shrinking margins in the Swiss life insurance market, according to Fitch Ratings.   18 January 2017

Insurance

Protection gap: helping to plug the flood risk gap

Does the re/insurance industry have the resilience and resources to help bridge the protection gap around flood risk? Maybe—if it works with government and other stakeholders towards building more integrated insurance solutions. Intelligent Insurer reports.   29 January 2021

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‘Benign’ cat losses in 2019 support higher industry capital for reinsurers

Fitch analyst explains the global reinsurance drivers in 2019 and discusses what to expect in 2020.   31 January 2020

Insurance

The fear factor will determine rate hikes

While the industry has enough capital to handle the losses from the recent hurricanes, even at the higher end of estimates, it will be the psychology of the market that will determine potential changes in rates, with the fear factor having an important role to play, Brian Schneider, Fitch Ratings’ global head of reinsurance, told PCI Today.   16 October 2017

Insurance

Fitch changes its outlook on Italian life market to negative

Fitch Ratings has changed its sector outlook for the Italian life insurance market to negative from stable, noting that wider spreads on Italian sovereign debt may weaken insurers' capitalisation and business retention.   14 March 2017

Insurance

Ratings users unaware of big differences between Fitch and AM Best

Fitch Ratings has released a report which details the differences and lack of comparability between its own insurance financial strength (IFS) ratings and those of AM Best – in particular at the 'A-' level.   18 July 2016

Insurance

Reinsurers in Europe and the US will benefit from abolition of regulatory requirements, says Fitch

Abolishing regulatory requirements that mean EU and US reinsurers must post collateral for their transatlantic business will provide an important boost to reinsurers' liquidity and investment freedom, according to Fitch Ratings.   18 January 2017

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