This wrap-up of international People Moves details recent appointments at broker Acrisure; Willis Re; reinsurance investment firm Acacia Holdings Ltd., and Corant Global. A summary of these new hires follows here. Acrisure, the London-based insurance broker and fintech financial services …
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African focused managing general agent, announced the launch of its parametric division, alongside the appointment of Dr. Raveem Ismail as head of Parametric Underwriting and Ian Bishop as Parametric Product manager. ASR Parametric brings together …
NEW DELHI – Personal data of about 4.5 million passengers of Air India was leaked in a cyber attack on the airline’s data processor but the compromised servers were later secured, the Indian state-run carrier said in a statement. The …
Barclays Plc has been dragged into a bitter feud between two French insurers over its role in a failed hostile takeover bid. SCOR SE is suing Barclays in London for breach of confidence when the bank advised Covéa on its …
India braces for the second severe storm in about 10 days, with authorities in the eastern region preparing to evacuate people to safer places at a time when the country is battling the world’s worst outbreak of COVID-19. Cyclone Yaas, …
LONDON – The Bank of England set out plans on Friday to use its 20 billion pounds ($28.4 billion) of corporate bond holdings to nudge companies to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster, part of a wider government strategy to achieve …
A leading Japanese matchmaking app was hacked, likely exposing the personal information of more than 1.7 million account holders, in the latest high-profile online attack. Net Marketing Co., which runs the Omiai dating app, said that it found evidence of …
Climate change is making hurricanes bigger and stronger, and it may soon push them farther north. Yet Canada’s homeowners, businesses and insurers underestimate that escalating risk, according to one of the world’s leading reinsurance firms. Overall, the northern nation has …
A day after threatening to publicly release patient data, the hackers who targeted Ireland’s health service offered a decryption key that they said could be used to unlock computers infected with ransomware. While seeming to offer an olive branch — …
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), a reinsurance managing general agent focused on the African corporate and specialty market, announced it has launched a fully capitalized and licensed reinsurer based in Mauritius. Alongside the reinsurer license, ASR has also been granted a …
