All Analysis articles – Page 3
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Insurtech MGAs: a marriage made in heaven?
Startup insurtechs are favouring the MGA model for a gateway into the industry to avoid becoming just another service provider to traditional insurance companies. David Benyon reports
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Crisis in the Hormuz Strait prompts Joint War Committee action
Attacks blamed on Iran off the coast of the UAE earlier this month left holes in the hulls of four oil tankers
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Marine cyber risk secondary to environmental focus - event analysis
Maritime sector and insurance technology experts converged on Windward’s inaugural Sea: The Future 2019 conference
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PRA adds climate risk to UK insurers’ stress tests
The City’s supervisor will include physical and transition risk scenarios for climate change in its market-wide insurance stress tests this year, a Bank of England speech has revealed
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India’s market should favour insurtech
Low penetration but high potential in India’s re/insurance market should favour insurance technology, speakers said at an India-UK event in London
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Takaful faces market awareness challenge: Even some people who work in it don’t know what it does
The Takaful and Re/Takaful sector has an image problem and general lack of awareness about what it can do, according to speakers at DWIC 2019
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Demand hugely untapped – Willis Re’s Vickers
The insurance sector has a lot to do if it wants to close the protection gap in Middle East markets, according to James Vickers, chairman of Willis Re International
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Mondelez vs Zurich lawsuit shows cyber market uncertainties
Mondelez vs Zurich comes as the nascent cyber insurance market continues to develop with increased demand for cyber policies.
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GR Innovation & Insurtech Bermuda: Talk about a revolution
Fresh thinking and converging insurance technologies are adding up to a revolution in the re/insurance sector, exemplified by GR’s Innovation & Insurtech 2018 event in Bermuda
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Reinsurance market M&A continued in 2018
When RenaissanceRe announced it was acquiring Tokio Millennium Re for $1.5bn it was just the latest in a series of deals that have been reshaping the reinsurance sector over the past couple of years
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ILS investors count losses from Camp Fire
Wildfires will cost excess and surplus lines insurers, reinsurers and ILS investors, after the Camp Fire goes down as the worst wildfire in Californian history
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Reinsurers flexible on European cat pricing – Willis Re’s Tsimaratos
Following discussions in Monte Carlo, Willis Re expects rate flexibility from European reinsurers for the Continent’s catastrophe risks, while demand for earnings covers at lower attachment points provides reinsurers with some pricing opportunities
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Stable pricing expected, outlook positive – Swiss Re’s Higginbotham
Margins remain low, but Swiss Re’s Russell Higginbotham thinks the mood is positive and expects a stable renewal at 1/1
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ILS Analysis: Closing in
As ILS funds continue to demonstrate an interest to get closer to the risk, questions around whether this capital is here to stay cease to be relevant
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Q&A: Scor's Régis Delayat on implementing change
One of the industry’s biggest advocates for digital changes talks about preparing for the tech revolution
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FinTech Hive – the story so far
With the first panel of DWIC18 day two focussing on the DIFC’s Fintech Hive, we take a look at what has been achieved
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DWIC18 - New data and processing power make way for “renaissance” in AI
A breakdown of the key talking points from the DWIC 2018 AI panel on day one
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Dog Days: a biting year for reinsurance
Markel International Singapore principal officer and managing director Matt Cannock takes a look back at a tumultuous year
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AIG-Validus deal: the start of a 2018 Bermuda M&A story?
With losses and market pressures, 2018 could be a year of bumper-ticket Bermuda M&A
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Global Risks Report 2018: Cyber risk growing faster than mitigation efforts, says John Drzik
Cyber may outstrip natural catastrophes in losses, according to panel at WEF Global Risks Report 2018 launch