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Alternative Risk Transfer
Hazard modelling company JBA Risk Management has launched a catastrophe modelling platform aimed at challenging the status quo.   29 May 2015
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
Insurance
Losses from natural catastrophes in the third quarter will likely wipe out global reinsurers' annual earnings and ultimately become a capital event for the sector, S&P Global Ratings said on Oct. 13.   16 October 2017
News
Against a backdrop of consolidation and change among global reinsurers, focused regional players can reap the rewards and offer cedants something they cannot find elsewhere: strong local knowledge and expertise, argues Fuad Kuliyev of Az Re.   23 October 2018
Insurance
The use of blockchain may help to overcome issues of trust between parties where there is a potential conflict of interest, and its use may even command a higher premium on contracts where the payment of a claim is automated, Magdalena Ramada Sarasola, senior economist at Willis Towers Watson, suggested to Baden-Baden Today.   22 October 2018
News
Benoît des Cressonnières, chief executive officer of Euler Hermes Reinsurance, with responsibility for the company’s buying programme, says he is expecting a steady renewal with little change in pricing, despite some pressure from reinsurers for rate increases on the back of the 2017 catastrophe losses suffered by many global reinsurers.   22 October 2018
Insurance
A restructure within the Mapfre Group will allow reinsurance unit Mapfre Re to expand its range of products and remit, Eduardo Perez de Lema, chief executive officer and chairman of the management committee of Mapfre Re, told Baden-Baden Today.   22 October 2018
Insurance
Driven by an appreciation of the benefits of diversification and a search for healthier rates, many insurers have shown a growing commitment to the credit and political risk space in recent years, creating more choice for clients as a result. This has been widely supported by reinsurers.   22 October 2018
Insurance
The uncertainty around the nature of UK’s departure from the EU is causing re/insurers to protect themselves against whatever the worst-case scenario might be, as they prepare for the January 1 renewals, according to Mike Van Slooten, head of market analysis, Aon Benfield.   22 October 2018
News
A growing number of larger insurers in Europe have restructured their reinsurance programmes whereby they place centralised multi-risk covers through global broker programmes—a trend that has made life tougher for smaller reinsurers.   22 October 2018

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