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There is a real opportunity to improve reinsurance processes with the use of blockchain technology, which can deliver cost savings and efficiency gains of 30 percent by taking out unnecessary reconciliation, repetitive duplication of work and waiting times. 11 September 2017
Insurance
Flaspöhler, part of NMG Consulting, conducts an annual, global survey of brokers and insurance executives to illustrate reinsurers’ competitive positioning and concerns. Here, we reveal the top challenges for insurance executives in EMEA. 11 September 2017
Insurance
Rating agency Fitch has said its outlook for the global reinsurance sector in 2018 remains negative as falling prices and low investment yields put pressure on profits. 11 September 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
The recent issuance of a new cat bond by the World Bank Group’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) covering natural catastrophes in Mexico, demonstrates the further maturity of the ILS sector and an increasing willingness by governments to use this form of risk transfer. 11 September 2017
Insurance
A rapidly changing risk landscape will mean many new risks for reinsurers to grapple with and overcome but these will also yield many opportunities for the industry, Bob Forness, chairman and chief executive officer of MultiStrat Holdings, told Monte Carlo Today. 11 September 2017
Insurance
As the US braces for Hurricane Irma, the re/insurance industry is preparing itself for the fallout from what could be one of the most costly losses to hit the industry in decades—and the big question is how alternative capital providers will react if losses escalate. 10 September 2017
Insurance
Flood losses triggered by Hurricane Harvey, which struck Texas at the end of August, are likely to push up the debt of the US National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and affect its reauthorisation set for the end of September, Matt Reid, managing director of JBA Risk Management USA, told Monte Carlo Today. 10 September 2017
Insurance
The ‘counterfactual analysis of historical events’—scenarios that could have happened but have not—is an important tool not only for the assessment of uncertainty and disaster preparedness, but also for catastrophe insurance risk management, such as the estimation of the probable maximum loss. 10 September 2017
Insurance
In a highly competitive environment, brokers need to harness the powers of innovation, client centricity, agility and diversification to stay on top, says Dimitris Tsesmetzoglou, CEO of Matrix Brokers at Lloyd’s, in an interview. 10 September 2017
Insurance
Some executives running managing general agents (MGAs) should be prepared for the potential effect on their own businesses of losses from the series of hurricanes that have hit the US and the Caribbean—even if they have no direct exposure to the area. 10 September 2017
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