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Insurance

AmTrust at Lloyd's and Canopius sign merger agreement

Specialty re/insurer Canopius has signed a definitive agreement to merge its Lloyd’s business with AmTrust at Lloyd’s, a division of AmTrust Financial.   18 April 2019

News

Swiss Re chair ‘optimistic’ as shareholders back all 2019 AGM board proposals

Swiss Re shareholders approved a new public share buy-back programme worth up to $1.97 billion (CHF 2 billion) in purchase value at the reinsurer’s AGM today (17 April) in Zurich.   17 April 2019

Insurance

Glass Lewis and ISS back CIAM calls to block Kessler’s SCOR payout

Proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis and ISS have urged SCOR shareholders to vote against large remuneration and compensation packages for SCOR chairman and CEO Denis Kessler, ahead of the company’s AGM on 26 April in Paris.   17 April 2019

Insurance

Capsicum Re swoops for Guy Carpenter MD to expand mortgage indemnity reinsurance business

Guy Carpenter's Stephen Mathews has joined specialist reinsurance broker Capsicum Re's mortgage indemnity reinsurance division. Based in New York, he will head up the division’s global analytics capability.   17 April 2019

Insurance

Liberty Mutual buys AmTrust's global surety, credit reinsurance business

Liberty Mutual Insurance is to acquire the global surety and credit reinsurance operations of AmTrust Financial Services in a move it hopes will support its "goal of becoming a top three global commercial re/insurer".   16 April 2019

Insurance

PartnerRe appoints AXIS Re's Jonathan Colello as Americas P&C CEO

Reinsurer PartnerRe has hired AXIS Re's Jonathan Colello as CEO of property and casualty (P&C) Americas, and president of Partner Reinsurance Company of the US.   16 April 2019

Insurance

Everest Re's Brexit subsidiary launches UK branch in expansion move

Everest Insurance Ireland, dac (EIID), the Dublin-based subsidiary of Everest Re Group, is opening a new branch office in the UK to expand its international capabilities.   16 April 2019

Insurance

AXIS Re names new president of EMEA & Latin America

AXIS Re, the reinsurance business segment of Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings, has appointed Andy Hottinger as president of its EMEA LatAm division.   16 April 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

S&P predicts ‘stable to gradual increases’ in European run-off market

S&P has predicted “stable to gradually increasing activity” in the European property casualty run-off market in a report.   15 April 2019

Insurance

Insurtech start-up Insurdata raises $3m in seed funding

Insurdata, an insurtech firm which intelligently creates, enhances, scores and transfers high resolution, peril-specific exposure and risk data, has secured $3 million from a group of investors led by Anthemis and Menlo Ventures.   15 April 2019

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