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Brexit

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Brexit

Viewpoint: Solvency reform, the secondary growth objective and UK electoral risk

An impending election in the UK might introduce risk to ongoing solvency reform and delay the secondary growth that has been promised

United Kingdom Regulation

PRA launches consultation on Solvency II reforms

Reforms aim to create a new UK regulatory regime for insurance firms, known as Solvency UK, which is ‘better adapted to the UK insurance market’

United Kingdom Regulation

Darag approved for China Taiping Part VII transfer

China Taiping Insurance turned to the legacy market for its EU business following post-Brexit regulatory changes

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Broker Facilities

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Marsh adds $25m capacity to Echo cyber facility

Broker’s excess cyber facility now has capacity of $125m

Marsh Cyber

Ardonagh expands follow facility to property

Cross-class facility now covers £600m of premium following expansion of original arrangement with Beazley

London Property

Broker facilities reposition for hard market and new digital era

The emergence of a new breed of data-driven follow facilities suggests the model still has much to offer in the new environment

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Cyber

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Cyber market braces for return to volatility

Cyber insurance rates are now falling after rapid hikes two years ago, but some underwriters fear the adjustment is happening too fast and too soon and risks damaging market credibility

International Specialty

EU insurance regulator finds AI use widespread but uneven

Half of survey respondents said they used artificial intelligence for non-life business

Europe Cyber

Marsh adds $25m capacity to Echo cyber facility

Broker’s excess cyber facility now has capacity of $125m

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Market Modernisation

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Market Modernisation

Whitespace set to roll out workflow automation

Electronic trading platform’s first workflow automation solution launches in the second half of this year

London Technology

Acord expands standards to include facultative insurance

Version 1.3 supports the electronic placement of all reinsurance contract types, the standard-setting body said

Reinsurance Digitalisation
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Resilience

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Resilience

Insurers must help accelerate pre-arranged finance for disasters: Clarke

By 2050, only 20% of international crisis finance will be pre-arranged, which is 20 years too late, head of the Centre for Disaster Protection says

Big Interview Resilience

Insurers back $3.5bn ‘milestone’ development finance policy

Companies including Axa XL, Everest and Swiss Re back programme to provide billions of dollars of additional development finance to emerging economies

International Climate change

Convex invests €20m in clean ocean fund

The Ocean 14 Capital Fund has now passed its €150m target and aims to reach €200m by the end of 2023

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Solvency II

PRA raises threshold for Solvency II

Solvency II will apply to firms with £25m gross written premiums, up from £15m in previous iterations

United Kingdom Regulation

EU regulator says market risks remain biggest concern for insurers

Eiopa quarterly dashboard finds liquidity and funding risks increasing, but cyber and macro risks are falling

Europe Solvency II

PRA flags worries about models, cyber underwriting and climate

Prudential regulator raises concerns models may be too optimistic and miss inflation risks

United Kingdom Solvency II
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Insurtech

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Insurtech

Viewpoint: Using insurtech to gain advantage as the market softens

Some insurers are making big profits and resting on their laurels, others are preparing for the soft market battle ahead

Viewpoint Insurtech

Orion180 launches in Arizona

US insurtech homeowners' insurance group expands operations into the western US

United States Property

Slide secures $210m in storm protection with Purple Re cat bond

Florida-based property insurtech sponsors its largest catastrophe bond to date

United States Reinsurance
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Diversity

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Diversity

Legal Focus: FCA shines spotlight on London market firms over non-financial misconduct

There are steps insurance firms can take to mitigate the risks of being on the receiving end of unwanted FCA attention

London Regulation

Lloyd’s firms meet goal for women at senior levels

But managing agents and brokers are further from meeting ethnic minority hiring target, latest diversity survey finds

Lloyds Diversity

D&O insurers grapple with ESG pressures

ESG policies can generate lawsuits against companies and their directors where they are too weak, overpromise or annoy conservatives. The US is at the forefront of this wave, but other jurisdictions are catching up

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Monte Carlo

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Monte Carlo

Reinsurers on target to deliver mid-teens capital return: Gallagher Re's Kerton

Reinsurers’ focus is now on achieving rates that at least match inflation on a risk-adjusted basis, broker's UK chief executive Ian Kerton says

International Reinsurance

This is not a real hard market: Munich Re’s Winter

Industry experiencing a ‘re-baselining’ amid reduced commitment from alternative capital, German reinsurer’s North American chief says

North America Munich Re

Facultative cover being used 'strategically': Everest’s Izzo

Bermuda-based carrier’s facultative and hybrid business set for growth as global client initiative boosts distribution

Bermuda Everest Re
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Baden Baden

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Baden Baden

Baden-Baden meeting returns to in-person format

Further details about organisation of event to be released in July

Europe Reinsurance

Focus: Clarity over coverage is critical as Covid-19 casts shadow over January renewals

With negotiations underway, the reinsurance market must develop a common language for Covid-19 type exposures

Baden Baden Focus

Focus: Trust is essential to navigate the hard market

By understanding the risk and realistically pricing for the exposure, a mutually beneficial relationship between reinsurer and cedant can be maintained

Focus Baden Baden
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Renewals

Increased E&S capacity to ease US property renewals in 2024: Gallagher

The extreme rate increases over the past six years are losing momentum, specialty broker says

United States Property

P&I clubs getting two-thirds of renewal round headline increases, brokers claim

Gard, NorthStandard and Skuld likely to increase entered tonnage when dust settles, according to market sources

Specialty Marine

Hannover Re reports 1/1 growth of 6.9%

Reinsurance rates remained favourable across regions and lines of business, says chairman, Jean-Jacques Henchoz

Hannover Re Reinsurance
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Hurricane Season

Set Alert for Insurance Day Hot Topics :: Hurricane Season

CSU forecasts 'extremely active' 2024 Atlantic storm season

Colorado State University forecasters say they expect 11 hurricanes, with five reaching major status

North America Hurricane Season

North Atlantic hurricane season to be ‘hyper-active’

Tropical Storm Risk forecasts 16 hurricanes and 22 tropical storms in 2024

United States Property

Louisiana moves to deregulate insurers amid coverage crisis

New insurance commissioner says ’we must bring premium relief to Louisiana’

United States Property
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