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Insurance

Bad news events and climate change have D&O risk implications

Allianz report highlights risk trends company directors and officers need to watch in 2020   4 December 2019

Insurance

Ironshore launches space coverage

Insurer Ironshore has launched insurance coverage for passengers and participants in sub-orbital space flights through its Lloyd’s Syndicate (Pembroke).   12 June 2014

Insurance

Blockchain is changing industry; cryptos have further to go

The use of blockchain is already having a very positive effect on many parts of the industry, but cryptocurrencies must stabilise and solve challenges around privacy before they can play any meaningful role, David Edwards, CEO of ChainThat, told Monte Carlo Today.   12 September 2018

Insurance

StarStone hires XL Catlin's O’Malley as new head of cargo

StarStone, the specialty insurer and subsidiary of Enstar Group, has appointed Rod O’Malley as head of cargo in London. He will report to global head of marine Simon Schnorr.   12 June 2017

Insurance

Pandemic speeds use of technology in adjusting world: McLarens

The loss adjuster’s new regional director sees opportunities for growth across Asia.   2 November 2020

Alternative Risk Transfer

JLTCM arranges Market Re cat bond

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Capital Markets (JLTCM), part of JLT Re, has arranged private placement catastrophe bond Market Re 2015-1.   6 May 2015

Insurance

AXA-backed Israeli cyber risk insurtech Sayata Labs attracts $6.5m funding

Insurtech startup Sayata Labs, a provider of risk assessment solution for the cyber insurance industry, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding.   26 March 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

Pool Re eyes first ILS deal

Pool Re is looking to issue insurance-linked securities (ILS), having exhausted traditional reinsurance capacity, Pool Re CEO Julian Enoizi, told Monte Carlo Today. In April 2018, it selected GC Securities as its ILS advisor and placement agent.   11 September 2018

Insurance

Rates decline 1.3% for Brit in 2017

Specialty re/insurer Brit experienced an overall rate reduction of 1.3 percent in 2017, following a 3.3 percent reduction in 2016.   16 February 2018

News

‘Fierce’ competition in LatAm

Economic recovery in Latin America is slowly improving the growth outlook for reinsurers in the region, but strong competition is expected to exert pressure on rates and earnings, Patria Re CEO Manuel Escobedo, told Monte Carlo Today.   10 September 2018

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