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The growth in the use of insurance for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has created greater opportunity and cost-savings for all stakeholders. According to Aon’s M&A and Transaction Solutions: Risk in Review report released ahead of Baden-Baden, M&A insurance has changed the way deal professionals distribute risk and how insurers view the risk. 22 October 2018
Insurance
The search for capital relief under Solvency II and thin margins on the insurance side of the business are the two biggest factors driving demand for reinsurance in Europe at the moment, Jan Ekberg, president of EMEA, Axis Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Rising interest rates won’t, on their own, improve reinsurers’ operational earnings, and that they will is a common myth that needs to be dispelled—or at least better understood—by the industry, Stuart Shipperlee, head of analysis at Litmus Analysis, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Consolidation and yet more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the industry will be the biggest talking point in Baden-Baden this year, closely followed by negotiations over rates and terms and conditions, according to an online survey carried out by Intelligent Insurer ahead of this renewals season. 22 October 2018
Insurance
MGA owners perform better if their interests are aligned with those of their carriers. Citadel Risk Services has developed a unique way of achieving this, as Mike Palmer of Citadel explained to Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Parametric cat bonds can help the countries of South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Commonwealth of Independent States as well as Turkey (ECIS) close the protection gap associated with natural catastrophe risk, Kirill Savrassov, chief executive officer of Phoenix CRetro, a niche Bermudian ILS specialist, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
UnipolRe, the Dublin-based reinsurer backed by Italian insurer UnipolSai Assicurazioni, has sent its largest ever team to Baden-Baden this year as it looks to consolidate the healthy growth it has enjoyed in the region. 22 October 2018
Insurance
While in the past a property’s value has been the main basis for the calculation of exposure risk and premium, e2Value is now adding structural characteristics to the process and producing significant changes in the assessment as a result. 15 October 2018
Insurance
International loss adjuster, Charles Taylor Adjusting (CTA) has acquired FGR group, a loss adjusting and claims programme management group, headquartered in Chile. 4 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Iran is working on the development of a range of new financial products, including insurance-linked securities (ILS) as reinsurance cover has become scarce in the country due to the reintroduction of sanctions, according to an Oct. 2 Reuters report. 4 October 2018
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