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Accenture life insurance and annuity platform becomes top scorer in Gartner report

Research organisation Gartner has given the Accenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP) the highest score in its digital user support use case in a new report, Critical Capabilities for Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems, North America.   15 October 2019

Insurance

Shares in BP Marsh rise as insurance investments pay off

Shares in BP Marsh rose 6% after the specialist investor in financial services intermediary businesses, including insurance firms, reported robust results for the first half of the year.   15 October 2019

Insurance

AXA welcomes building safety standards legislation promised in Queen’s speech

The promised laws to implement new building safety standards, as outlined in the Queen’s Speech yesterday, have been welcomed by Douglas Barnett, director of mid-market and customer risk management at AXA Insurance.   15 October 2019

Insurance

AXA makes key changes in AXA IM’s leadership: Gérald Harlin to become executive chairman

Gérald Harlin, AXA’s group deputy CEO and group CFO, will be appointed executive chairman of AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), effective December 1. He will implement the next phase of AXA IM’s strategy with the aim of accelerating the company’s development. Harlin will continue to report to Thomas Buberl, CEO of AXA, in this role.   15 October 2019

Insurance

Gallagher acquires Florida-based The Doyle Group and its affiliates, known as Direct To PolicyHolder

Gallagher has acquired Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida-based The Doyle Group and its affiliates, collectively doing business as Direct To PolicyHolder (DTPH).   15 October 2019

Insurance

Chubb finds ransomware accounts for 40% of manufacturers’ cyber claims in 2019

Ransomware accounts for 40 percent of manufacturers’ cyber claims in 2019 so far, according to a report by Chubb.   15 October 2019

Insurance

Interest in diverse approaches in terrorism cover grows at IFTRIP

Terrorism cover might reach up to 2-4 percent of investment portfolios as investors look to diversify away from pure natural catastrophe risks.   15 October 2019

Insurance

Schneider and HDI team up to transform industrial insurance

Industrial insurer HDI Global and Schneider Electric are to collaborate on the digital transformation of industrial insurance through data.   15 October 2019

Technology

Proving the value of distributed ledger technology

The launch of blockchain insurance startup B3i’s Cat XoL product is opening the door for the re/insurance industry to embrace distributed ledger technology. B3i’s chief marketing officer Ken Marke outlines its aims.   14 October 2019

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Reinsurer PartnerRe names Nicolas Burnet as successor to retiring executive vice president and CFO Mario Bonaccorso

PartnerRe has revealed that Nicolas Burnet will succeed Mario Bonaccorso as executive vice president and chief financial officer when he retires on March 31, 2020.   11 October 2019

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