Chilton confirms return to Capsicum Re

Grahame “Chily” Chilton has confirmed he will shortly return to Capsicum Re, the London-headquartered reinsurance intermediary that he founded in 2013.

Thu 21 Jun 2018

MMC creates new alternative risk unit combining Marsh and GC talent

 The expansion of alternative risk capital beyond its property cat reinsurance heartland and into new classes of business is at the heart of a new MMC initiative aiming to draw together experts from its retail broking powerhouse, Marsh, and its reinsurance sister organisation, Guy Carpenter.

Wed 20 Jun 2018

Californian commercial auto specialist Topa weighs potential sale

Topa Insurance Group, a commercial-auto heavy California-based specialty insurer, has appointed boutique investment bank Dowling Hales as it eyes a potential sale, re-Insurance.com understands.

Wed 20 Jun 2018

Ardonagh names CFO Mugge’s replacement

Diane Cougill has been named chief financial officer at UK broker Ardonagh Group three months after Mark Mugge stepped down suddenly.

Wed 20 Jun 2018

Credit Suisse launches Bermuda reinsurer Bernina Re

Credit Suisse, one of the industry’s two largest ILS fund managers, has launched a Bermudian reinsurer Bernina Re which will act as a transformer vehicle for many of its ILS transactions.

Wed 20 Jun 2018

Hamilton appoints head of treaty in wake of Carvey resignation

Hamilton Underwriting, the Lloyd’s arm of the Bermudian (re)insurer Hamilton Insurance Group, has appointed Neil Lee-Amies as head of treaty.

Wed 20 Jun 2018

Aon snares head of UK claims from Marsh

Aon has appointed Richard Moxon head of claims for its UK business. 

Wed 20 Jun 2018

Liiba makes two appointments to committee

Liiba has named Sarah Pepiatt and Steve Williams chairs of the broker association.

Wed 20 Jun 2018

4 in 5 insurers seeking acquisitive growth by 2021: KPMG

Around 81 percent of insurers globally intend to undertake between one and three acquisitions in the next three years, according to analysis by KPMG.

Tue 19 Jun 2018

ChainThat aims to unlock blockchain potential in (re)insurance

(Re)insurance blockchain experts ChainThat are aiming to unlock the potential of the distributed ledger technology to improve the entire industry value chain, according to the company’s COO Vikas Acharya.

Tue 19 Jun 2018

Barbican swoops on Chubb to expand cyber team

Barbican has appointed Lauren Webb as a class underwriter for cyber within its Lloyd’s Syndicate 1955.

Tue 19 Jun 2018

IAG sells three Southeast Asia businesses

Australian carrier IAG has agreed to sell its majority stake in its Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese operations in a series of transactions which should net the company around $200mn.

Tue 19 Jun 2018

Bermuda on Blockchain Session 3: Blockchain Value in the Business of (re)insurance

Mon 18 Jun 2018

Bermuda on Blockchain Conference: Risk and Rewards - Blockchain Technology, panel session

Mon 18 Jun 2018

Blockchain requires buy-in of whole industry ecosystem: Balakrishnan

While blockchain has the potential to disrupt the entire financial services industry, the technology requires the whole (re)insurance industry to participate in order for it to bring substantive change to the market, according to Xceedance CEO Arun Balakrishnan.

Mon 18 Jun 2018

Bermuda on Blockchain Conference: The InsurTech environment in June 2018

Mon 18 Jun 2018