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Zurich Debuts Global Business Unit Focused on Evolving Risks

Zurich Insurance Group created a new business unit designed to help customers address evolving risks. The global business unit, Zurich Resilience Solutions, is designed to provide services that help compliment traditional insurance products and make a customer’s business more resilience. …

AM Best Signs Up to UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance, in Ratings Agency First

AM Best became a signatory of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI). The insurance industry plays an important role in supporting sustainable economic and social development, said AM Best. Further, management of environmental, social and …

Chubb’s Offer to Acquire Rival Hartford: $23.2 Billion

Chubb Ltd., the global insurer led by Evan Greenberg, proposed an acquisition of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. for about $23.2 billion in cash and stock in what could be one of the industry’s biggest deals in years. The New …

UK Broker Specialist Risk Group Lures Team of 16 from AFL, Led by Ex-AFL CEO Bines

Specialist Risk Group, a London-based insurance broker, have hired a team of 16 from AFL Insurance Brokers, led by Jonathan Bines, AFL’s former CEO. SRG said this announcement marks its first London market team hire of the year and is …

Greensill Capital Creditors, Led by Softbank, Submit More Than $1.4 Billion in Claims

SYDNEY – Thirty-four creditors of Greensill Capital Pty, the Australian parent of the collapsed British supply chain financier, submitted over A$1.75 billion ($1.35 billion) in claims to the company, administrators said on Friday. About $1.15 billion of that was made …

Tokio Marine Faces Larger-Than-Expected Exposure to Greensill Capital Meltdown

Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. is facing a larger-than-expected exposure to the Greensill Capital meltdown after finding that reinsurance contracts intended to limit losses didn’t cover its unit that did the most business with Greensill. Tokio’s Australia Bond & Credit Co. …

Chubb Explores Acquisition of $22 Billion Rival Hartford: Bloomberg

Chubb Ltd., the global insurer led by Evan Greenberg, is exploring an acquisition of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. in what could be one of the industry’s biggest deals in years, people familiar with the matter said. The New York-listed …

South Korea Defends Mandatory COVID Testing of Foreign Workers

SEOUL- Authorities in the South Korean capital defended on Thursday a decision to order coronavirus tests for all foreign workers on penalty of fines, as calls grew for the controversial measure to be rescinded. At least one lawmaker of the …

Britain Says Financial Services Agreement With EU Should Come Soon

Britain expects to seal a financial services cooperation pact with the European Union shortly, a senior finance ministry official told a conference on challenges from market fragmentation. The City of London’s ties with the bloc were severed after Britain left …

Munich Re’s Transportation, Logistics Specialty Broker Roanoke Expands to Canada

Roanoke Insurance Group is expanding to Canada to provide insurance and surety bonds to companies involved in logistics, transportation and shipping. The new entity, Roanoke Insurance Group Canada, Inc., (RIG CA), is an affiliate of Roanoke Insurance and part of …

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