Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced that it has agreed to a strategic partnership with MIG Holding Ltd. (MIG Group), which will see the company take a minority interest in Middle East & North Africa …
French reinsurer SCOR said it benefited strongly from continued improvements in pricing and terms and conditions, during the April 1, 2021 reinsurance renewals – a continuation of trends already seen during the January renewals. SCOR’s gross premiums, up for renewal, …
HONG KONG – Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signaled to the company that the move could help draw …
Praedicat Inc., the Los Angeles-based liability emerging risk analytics company, announced the launch of its new Risk Scenario Analysis Platform, which widens the cross-line clash scope of its scenario suite. The platform also makes it easier for syndicates at Lloyd’s …
Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has launched Radar Workbench, new software technology aims to transform the performance of frontline commercial underwriters. “Radar Workbench has been developed to provide the optimal environment that supports underwriters in making complex decisions at pace …
LONDON – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF. Now she’s an analyst for …
LONDON – Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff and a combined trillion pounds ($1.4 trillion) in assets to hubs in the European Union due to Brexit, with more pain to come, a study from New Financial …
A defunct satellite spent early April hurtling through space toward the body of an old rocket, threatening a collision that the European Union’s Space Surveillance and Tracking Consortium estimated could generate more than 4 million pieces of debris. In the …
Dieter Wemmer, a veteran insurance executive who was chief financial officer at Allianz SE, is launching a blank-check company to target deals in the sector where he worked for more than three decades, people familiar with the matter said. Wemmer …
Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced a preliminary, pre-tax first quarter net loss estimate for catastrophes and other weather-related events in the range of $105 million to $115 million, or $95 million to $105 million, after-tax. The pre-tax net loss …
