Brokers & Distribution
Brokers provide a vital cog in the global specialty re/insurance marketplace, with their role continuingly evolving beyond a mechanism simply to place business. The advisory services provided by brokers now form a critical part of their value offering. The broking landscape is also shifting with major merger and acquisition activity creating opportunities for growing firms to expand in core markets and attract staff who have been displaced in the fallout from major deals.
Data centre stakeholders may be overinsured, WTW warns
Rapid growth in digital infrastructure and demand for artificial intelligence may be encouraging organisations to secure more capacity than their exposures require, broker says
MNK International launches energy division
New division will target emerging and specialist markets across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas
Price Forbes adds casualty to Lectio platform
Broker continues expansion of cross-class facility
The rise of the lead follower at Lloyd’s
Digitalisation is not just driving the bifurcation of lead-follow construct at Lloyd’s, it is also creating a new tier of leaders within the follow market
The tightening bond between climate and reinsurance
Broker’s natural catastrophe experts explain the ties binding extreme weather events to greater reinsurance capacity
Global commercial insurance rates fall 6% in Q2
Global composite property insurance rates fell by 12% in the second quarter of 2026, broker Marsh says
Price Forbes names McCoig-Lees head of casualty MGA in Singapore
Broker looks to expand managing general agent proposition with senior hire
McGill launches South African renewables product
Specialty intermediary partners with South African broker GIB on suite of coverage for developers, lenders and owners involved in South Africa’s energy transition
Consiluim names Outram managing partner for energy risk solutions
Broker continues build-out of energy platform with senior hire
Rokstone launches autotransporter product
Lloyd's-backed product targets larger specialist fleet operations
Aon names Liang reinsurance executive chair for China
Senior industry figure will help drive broker's growth across Greater China
CFC names Loake chief information officer
Specialist underwriting group hires senior Hiscox executive to drive technology strategy
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