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News£800 million Reinsurance Scheme officially opens to help live events to plan with confidence
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries have today opened the scheme worth over £800 million to reinsure live events against Covid-related cancellation.
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Gibraltar: Light touch regulator or rock steady market of the future?
The Gibraltarian insurance market has long been viewed as a territory with light touch regulation and less strict solvency requirements compared to markets such as the UK and continental Europe.
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UAE: Lloyd’s broker expands office
Tysers, a Lloyd’s broker, is expanding its presence in Dubai to meet the growing demand for insurance expertise in the Middle East.
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Climate crisis to fuel rapid insurance growth - sigma
Climate-related risks are expected to result in a 22% increase in global property premiums, or up to $183 billion, over the next 20 years
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Lloyd’s: Insurers must address emerging geopolitical risks
New report calls for innovation around insurance for geopolitical risks to address the “significant protection gap”
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Sustainability: Time to invest in biodiversity
Nature-based solutions can help organisations achieve greater resilience in the face of a changing climate
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Ida claims could reach $35 billion - RMS
Losses reflect property damage and business interruption to commercial, industrial, infrastructure and marine cargo among other classes of business
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Hurricane Ida devastation continues
Deadly flash floods have left a trail of further devastation, with energy and chemical sectors among those exposed to supply chain disruption
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Insurer M&A dips in 1H 2021 - Clyde & Co
UK leads consolidation activity in Europe and is second most active worldwide behind the US, ahead of Spain and Germany
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Insurers must attract talent from outside the industry
Sector must work harder to engage talent with a focus on ‘future gazing’ and a more digitised era
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Insurers lack ‘meaningful change’ around D&I
The Dive In 2021 festival will reveal a ‘big pool of talent that people don’t realise they are not tapping’, explains sister title Insurance Times
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COVID prompts supply chain ‘overhaul’
Automotive industry has taken the strongest hit as a result of production stoppages and trade restrictions - EIU
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Port closure signals further strain for global trade
Partial closure at China’s Port Ningbo adds to global supply chain woes, threatening $172 billion of goods - Russell Group
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The reinvention of supply chains
Near shoring and technology will shape the post-COVID supply chain, thinks AXA XL’s Pascal Matthey
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Chinese insurers endure costliest-ever nat cat
The total economic cost of flooding in China in July has been estimated at nearly $25 billion - Impact Forecasting
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Future proofing airports
There are clear risks and opportunities as airports repurpose for a post-COVID world
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Risks as Taliban retakes Afghanistan
The “largest foreign policy failure since the Suez Canal crisis” will cause deterioration in security - Dragonfly
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Insurer AIA posts jump in first-half new business value, raises dividend
The Asia-focused insurer’s value of new business (VONB), which measures expected profit from new premiums and is a gauge for future growth, rose by 22% to $1.81 billion in the January-to-June period.
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Bahrain Kuwait Insurance achieves 19.4% gross premium revenue growth
BKIC’s chief executive Dr Abdulla Sultan said: “The company’s consolidated results at the end of the first half of this year were encouraging even compared to the performance in the first half of last year. The company continues to become even more conservative in its provisioning, preparing for the evolution ...
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Saudi Re posts 89% growth in H1-21 profits
Earnings per share increased to SAR 0.33 in the first half (H1) of 2021 from SAR 0.14 in H1-20, according to a bourse disclosure on Monday.
