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Insurance
Insurer Rothesay Life is mulling making a £3.5 billion bid for ReAssure, Swiss Re’s UK closed book business, potentially jeopardising plans to list the unit this year, according to reports. 7 January 2019
Insurance
Willis Towers Watson has appointed Colin Forrest as regional leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the company’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business. He takes over from Frank Schepers who will step into a new role managing large client engagements. 7 January 2019
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AmTrust Financial Services has dropped Maiden Re as its quota share partner on its US small commercial business in favour of Swiss Re – though it said it will continue to work with the reinsurer on other business. 3 January 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Reinsurance placements at 1 January 2019 highlight a pricing gap between accounts with peak peril exposures or poor loss records and the rest, with many reinsurers placing emphasis on the quality of client counterparties, according to the latest 1st View renewals report from Willis Re. 2 January 2019
Insurance
The Corporation of Lloyd’s has set the targets for electronic placement for the first half of 2019 following approval from the Lloyd’s board and council. 20 December 2018
Insurance
The disruptive impact of insurtech, consolidation and further severe cat losses dominate the worries of our readers as they reflect on 2018—but they also appear resigned to grappling with such difficulties as the market heads into 2019. Those were some of the findings of the Intelligent Insurer year-end online survey. 20 December 2018
Insurance
Sonja Rottiers has been appointed as the CEO of Lloyd’s Brussels, replacing Vincent Vandendael who had been appointed to the post in May 2018. 20 December 2018
Insurance
More than $1.3 billion of insurtech funding was completed during the third quarter of 2018, double the figure from the previous quarter, according to Willis Towers Watson research. 20 December 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Reinsurance treaties with aggregate loss triggers are expected to be vulnerable to the November fire losses in California, following previous qualifying catastrophe events in 2018 that would have utilized some or all of their aggregate deductibles, Fitch Ratings said. 20 December 2018
Insurance
California-based TicketGuardian, an insurtech firm providing technology solutions for its wholly-owned insurance subsidiary, FanShield, has raised $8 million Series A funding led by American Family Ventures and IA Capital Group. 20 December 2018
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