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Insurance
Pressure on the reinsurance business has been significant in 2016 due to a low interest rate environment and a soft market, but 2017 is likely to be even tougher and could lead to negative ratings actions, according to major rating agencies. 14 December 2016
Insurance
Solvency II regulations could restrict insurers’ appetite for investing in highly rated and historically strongly performing securitisations, according to rating agency Fitch. 30 April 2012
News
Rating agency Fitch has downgraded Mapfre SA’s Issuer Default Rating to 'A-' from 'A', along with its core operating subsidiaries' Insurer Financial Strength rating to 'A' from 'A+'. 31 January 2012
News
Brit Insurance Limited's (BIL) Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) rating has been downgraded to 'BBB' from 'A', by rating agency Fitch. 18 June 2012
Insurance
CNA joins a growing list of participating carriers for programmatic quote-and-bind capability. 22 November 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Randolph Re will facilitate ILS usage by a much broader range of clients. 22 November 2019
Insurance
Insured losses for Typhoon Faxai, which has caused widespread disruption to Tokyo and surrounding areas in Japan, will be between $5 billion, and $9 billion, according to global risk modeling and analytics firm RMS. 30 September 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Alternative capital has reloaded after the major nat cat events in 2017 and is in good shape to compete for cedants with the traditional reinsurance players and cause further pressure on rates, as recent market reports by Aon Benfield and Fitch Ratings suggest. 25 April 2018
News
Rating agency Fitch has said that Solvency II is unlikely to lead to a wave of European insurers moving their headquarters out of Europe. 15 March 2012
Insurance
The higher levels of catastrophe losses in 2016 could represent something of a wake-up call for the re/insurance industry after a number of years of benign loss activity – especially against a backdrop of a continued soft market in most lines of business, according to a number of senior executives interviewed by Intelligent Insurer. 30 December 2016
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