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AXA XL teams up with Accenture on cybersecurity services

Re/insurer AXA XL has partnered with Accenture to offer global cybersecurity expertise, including threat intelligence, risk mitigation and post breach services, to its underwriters, brokers and clients.   25 September 2019

Insurance

Mutual insurers in good shape with higher capital adequacy ratios: Aon and Namic

Mutual insurance companies in the US are in strong financial shape and less leveraged than those quoted on the stock exchange.   24 September 2019

Insurance

Commercial insurtech Bold Penguin raises $32m Series B led by HSCM, Lockton

US-based commercial insurance technology company Bold Penguin has secured $32 million Series B funding led by Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM), Lightstone, Guggenheim Insurance, Lockton, existing investors and individuals from Stone Point Capital.   24 September 2019

Insurance

Hannover Re US partners with fitness app Sweatcoin to research how physical activity mitigates mortality risks

A joint research project to study how daily physical activity can reduce the risk of disease and extend life expectancy has been launched by Hannover Life Reassurance (Hannover Re US), part of the Hannover Re Group, and Sweatcoin a digital health app.   24 September 2019

Insurance

AmTrust launches new excess casualty operation led by Everest Re's Jeff Lynn

AmTrust E&S Insurance Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AmTrust Financial Services, has launched a new excess casualty underwriting division based in Los Angeles. It will be led by Jeff Lynn, who joins from Everest Re.   24 September 2019

Insurance

Former JLT Specialty USA chief Rice to lead newly-launched Cobbs Allen unit CAC Specialty

Specialty insurance brokerage and investment banking business CAC Specialty, a part of US risk management and insurance brokerage Cobbs Allen, has hired JLT's Michael Rice II as its chief executive officer (CEO).   24 September 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

Markel taps Hamilton's Brenton Slade to build new ILS fund Lodgepine

Markel Corporation has hired Hamilton's Brenton Slade as president of Lodgepine Capital Management, its new retrocessional insurance linked securities (ILS) fund based in Bermuda.   19 September 2019

Insurance

Ed bolsters risk solutions with senior hire from Faraday

London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker Ed has appointed Simon Stovell as divisional director for its risk solutions team.   17 September 2019

Insurance

Marsh swoops on AIG, Aon talent to boost UK financial lines unit FINPRO

Broker Marsh has made two senior hires from AIG and Aon to strengthen its UK financial & professional (FINPRO) practice within Marsh JLT Specialty.   17 September 2019

Insurance

IFRS 17 still beset by some uncertainties, says AM Best

Ratings agency AM Best has highlighted concerns about further amendments being proposed to the International Accounting Standard, IFRS 17, which seeks to reflect market values in the published financial statements of insurers.   16 September 2019

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