October 25, 2021
Allen appointed as Head of Financial Lines for Oneglobal Bermuda Oneglobal Broking, the London-based specialist broker, announced that Christina Allen will join Oneglobal Bermuda as head of Financial Lines. Allen will report to group CEO, Mike Reynolds, and will officially …
October 25, 2021
COP26 climate talks in Glasgow starting next Sunday may be the world’s best last chance to cap global warming at the 1.5-2 degrees Celsius upper limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The stakes for the planet are huge …
October 25, 2021
GENEVA/GLASGOW – Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off track” on capping rising temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday, showing the task facing climate talks in Glasgow aimed at averting dangerous levels …
October 25, 2021
Digital insurer Getsafe has received its insurance license from Germany’s financial regulator, BaFin. The license will allow Getsafe to accelerate its expansion to the rest of Europe. “The license is a significant milestone – especially when considering that the German …
October 25, 2021
EXOR, the holding company of Italy’s Agnelli family, has restarted talks with French insurer Covéa over a possible sale of reinsurer PartnerRe, Il Sole 24 Ore reported on Saturday, after the deal was scrapped last year due to the pandemic. …
October 22, 2021
MILAN – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has tendered its stake in Cattolica under a takeover offer by Assicurazioni Generali, a source close to the situation said on Friday. The move brings Italy’s top insurer a step closer to controlling its …
October 22, 2021
NEW DELHI – Indian fintech firm Paytm has received approval from the capital markets regulator for its $2.2 billion stock market listing that is likely to be India’s biggest ever IPO, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on …
October 22, 2021
Guy Carpenter & Co., the reinsurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan, announced the launch of the Guy Carpenter Insurtech Center of Excellence (COE) to provide comprehensive services to global re/insurance carriers and managing general agents (MGAs), powered through modern technology …
October 22, 2021
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at three insurers: FM Global, Beazley and Rokstone. A summary of these new hires follows here. FM Global Promotes Johnson and Dempsey in Senior EMEA Roles Commercial property insurer FM Global has …
October 22, 2021
Bermuda’s advantageous tax status for the re/insurance industry will be reduced at the margin with the expected passage of the recent multilateral agreement to establish a 15% global minimum tax rate, according to Fitch Ratings in a market commentary. The …