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In the current challenging soft market and low interest rate environment, large re/insurance companies are in an advantageous position as they can better absorb the pressure and find alternative income sources. Search for scale is therefore likely to drive M&A activity in the coming years, Intelligent Insurer reports. 6 October 2016
Insurance
InsurTech analytics company Praedicat has released a new liability insurance risk modelling platform, which it claims will allow insurers to use so-called forward-looking modelling. 4 October 2016
Insurance
Car manufacturers and suppliers are investing massively in automated driving technology and creating a rush hour of challenges for the motor insurance industry as a consequence. Intelligent Insurer finds out more. 4 October 2016
Insurance
Africa’s reinsurance markets are expected to benefit from strong underlying growth driven by an expansion of its primary markets with insurance premiums reaching $64 billion. 3 October 2016
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Some of the world’s biggest reinsurers will be hardest hit by a prolonged soft market if an analysis of ratio of reserves to premiums is conducted, according to analysts at CreditSights. 30 September 2016
Insurance
New regulations in a number of markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) enhancing minimum capital and solvency requirements as well as incorporating actuarial based pricing and reserving have impacted profitability of many insurance companies, said AM Best. 28 September 2016
Insurance
Bertrand Labilloy, chief executive of French reinsurer Caisse Centrale de Réassurance, explains to Intelligent Insurer why CCR merits a state guarantee and the rationale behind launching the new CCR Re open market enterprise. 27 September 2016
Alternative Risk Transfer
Cat bonds might not have a long history, but so far they have paid out on claims from major events in a timely manner, according to Maren Josefs, associate director at S&P Global Ratings. 22 September 2016
Alternative Risk Transfer
The benign natural catastrophe environment has been just one factor driving difficulties for the re/insurance industry. These pressures were among the topics discussed by senior executives at a roundtable held in Hamilton, Bermuda, hosted by Xuber, a CSC company. 22 September 2016
Insurance
Verisk Insurance Solutions has introduced an energy insurance unit focused on risk assessment, rating, and risk modelling for the oil and gas, petrochemicals, power generation, and metals and mining industries. 20 September 2016
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