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A report by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that will assess competition in the wholesale insurance broker sector dominate the International Underwriting Association’s (IUA) agenda, alongside Brexit, in 2019, the representative body has said. 28 January 2019
Insurance
The global insurtech financing volume has fallen in 2017 to $2.24 billion compared to $2.69 billion in 2016 and $2.75 billion in 2015, according to FT Partners fintech industry research. 24 January 2018
Insurance
Changes the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) could make to IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts could help ensure reinsurance remains attractive as a risk mitigation tool and avoid unintended consequences such as raising barriers for new entrants, it has been claimed. 24 January 2019
Insurance
Genworth Financial and China Oceanwide Holdings have agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement and extended the previous deadline of November 30 to April 1, 2018, allowing for additional time for regulatory reviews of the transaction. 30 November 2017
Insurance
French insurer AXA has received $3.2 billion following the completion of its reorganisation transactions ahead of the planned initial public offering (IPO) of its US operations. 26 April 2018
Insurance
Arthur J Gallagher has appointed Simon Matson, currently head of Gallagher’s London Market and Alesco businesses, as the new CEO of its UK-based brokerage and underwriting division. 18 June 2018
Insurance
In the absence of clarity as to what a future trade deal will look like between the UK and the EU, affected insurers have accelerated their plans to establish new EU subsidiaries, according to AM Best. 3 August 2018
Insurance
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has appointed Bas Wijnhoven to the new role of senior underwriter – directors and officers (D&O) and crime for the Netherlands. 27 November 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
Brian Duperreault, the chief executive officer of AIG, has called for insurance linked-securities (ILS) to help cover the growing challenge of cyber risk, at the official opening event of the 15th Singapore International Reinsurance Conference, noting that Asia has more cyber attacks than any other region. 29 October 2018
Insurance
The underwriting performance of motor insurers in China has been further polarised since the introduction of motor de-tariffication in 2016, which is transforming the market, Christie Lee, director and head of analytics for North East Asia at AM Best, told SIRC Today. 29 October 2018
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