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Lloyd’s Acappella syndicate 2014 has appointed David Jones as active underwriter and Matthew Bellamy as deputy active underwriter. 29 March 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the economic project which aims to recreate the ancient Silk Road that linked Europe to Asia, needs protecting. ILS could provide the perfect solution, as Kirill K. Savrassov, chief executive of Phoenix CRetro Reinsurance Company, tells Intelligent ILS. 21 November 2019
Insurance
Bermuda-based holding company Ascot Group (AGL) has appointed former RenaissanceRe CEO Neill Currie as its executive chairman. 28 June 2017
Technology
Re/insurers see cyber and technology risks as the biggest threats they face in the next few years, but with technology rapidly advancing will insurers rise to the challenge? Intelligent Insurer reports on the latest Insurance Banana Skins survey. 3 September 2019
Insurance
Specialty re/insurer Brit has hired Hiscox and The Hartford executives to bolster its Brit Global Specialty USA (BGSU) professional liability team. 29 May 2018
Insurance
Talanx, the parent company of Hannover Re, has appointed Torsten Leue as its new chief executive officer. The current CEO, Herbert Haas, will step down from the board of management at the request of the majority shareholder HDI. 10 November 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
January 1 retro and European reinsurance purchasing tend to be a good indicator of what ILS market activity will look like for the rest of the year. If that trend continues, 2020 is set to be a busy year for ILS, perhaps even rivalling 2017, says Brad Livingston of Willis Re Securities. 27 February 2020
Insurance
With in-person Monte Carlo cancelled, the industry will be doing many of its renewals discussions online. That might work for some, but with thorny issues to address, the industry needs to get back to meeting face to face, say insurers. 14 September 2021
Insurance
The rushed timetable leading up to the January 2016 implementation of Solvency II is not realistic and will cause implementation challenges and costs for insurers, the deputy director general of Insurance Europe has claimed. 9 March 2015
Insurance
Asta Capital’s newly launched managing general agent (MGA) platform, Asta Underwriting Management (AUM), has appointed Sian Fisher as non-executive director of the board, in the first of what will be a series of hires. 16 September 2015
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