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Insurance
Azur, a managing digital agent (MGA), has completed its series B funding round, raising £13.3m of funding and support from AIG, Ascot Group (owned by CPPIB, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board), Hyperion Insurance Group and the serial fintech angel and entrepreneur Richard Little. 23 October 2018
Insurance
Broker Brown & Brown is acquiring the insurance operations of Minneapolis-based Hays Companies, a brokerage firm that operates across 21 US states. 23 October 2018
Insurance
The re/insurance industry must get a better handle on flood risk in Europe, which remains underestimated and underinsured, Michael Pickel, member of the executive board of Hannover Re responsible for target markets in P&C reinsurance, told Baden-Baden Today. 23 October 2018
News
The Guy Carpenter Baden-Baden 2018 Reinsurance Symposium has raised the question of where the recent wave of mergers & acquisitions (M&A) is taking the sector. 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
Alternative Risk Transfer
The risk transfer landscape is being transformed by consolidation and the idea that bigger and more diversity is better—particularly if access to alternative capital is involved. But, just like in real life, some recent marriages—especially those rushed into for the wrong reasons—may well end in divorce. Intelligent Insurer reports. 18 October 2018
Insurance
Re/insurer AXA XL has received authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) to move its principal EU insurance company, XL Insurance Company (XLICSE), from the UK to Dublin in response to Brexit uncertainty. 17 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
By the end 2018 the market for insurance-linked securities (ILS) is expected to reach a total volume of close to $100 billion, according to Hannover Re. 17 October 2018
Insurance
Cayman Islands-based specialist property/casualty reinsurer Greenlight Capital Re has invested in digital insurance platform Click2Sure. 17 October 2018
Insurance
The world of insurance—and the wider world beyond that—will be changed by the advent of the driverless or autonomous car, according to Vincent Branch, chief executive of Accelerate at AXA XL. 16 October 2018
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