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Insurance
Guy Carpenter has launched a new unit dedicated to helping insurers identify insurtech startups suitable to work with—eliminating much of the time, effort and risk currently associated with this process. 9 September 2018
Insurance
The recent new wave of consolidation has shown a further trend towards more companies operating so-called hybrid business models, whereby they write both insurance and reinsurance. Such a model can generate useful synergies, but it is also one of many factors driving consolidation, Torsten Jeworrek, member of Munich Re’s Board of Management, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The relentless evolution of insurtech will ultimately mean job losses and potentially a decline in the requirement for reinsurance globally, Clive O’Connell, partner and head of insurance and reinsurance at law firm McCarthy Denning, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2018
Insurance
Against a backdrop of record market losses in 2017 and underwhelming rate increases, reinsurers are continuing to consider the ways they deploy their capital and are showing an increased appetite for investment in managing general agent (MGA) platforms. 9 September 2018
Insurance
If the UK leaves the EU without a deal and the European regulators refuse initial Solvency II equivalence, European cedants could lose access to elements of the London reinsurance market, Peter Allen, partner at Moore Stephens, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2018
Insurance
Three years since its launch, Marco Sordoni, chief executive of UnipolRe, the Dublin-based reinsurer backed by Italian insurer UnipolSai Assicurazioni, assesses the company’s development and explains why it prefers deeper relationships with fewer clients. 9 September 2018
Insurance
Using live data from ship and cargo movements, insurers and reinsurers will be able to price and select the marine risk they want to underwrite more accurately, EY executives told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2018
Insurance
Lloyd’s profitability review is being described as the biggest shakeup of the market since reconstruction in the 1990s. As syndicates are forced to pare back capacity, it could have far-reaching consequences well beyond the market itself, as Intelligent Insurer reports. 8 September 2018
Insurance
Italian insurer Generali has entered into an exclusive negotiations with the shareholders of Sycomore Asset Management to acquire a majority stake in the company and enter into a strategic partnership. 7 September 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based Randall & Quilter (R&Q) Investment Holdings has revealed a corporate restructuring to create a new division comprising of its US and European programme management businesses. 7 September 2018
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