The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) announced the appointment of Denis Duverne as chair of its Steering Committee, succeeding Stephen Catlin,...
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The first half of 2018 aptly demonstrated that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has an undiminished appetite to provide re/insurance...
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore described it as “the first taste of a bitter...
Zurich Insurance Group announced that after five successful years its flood resilience alliance will be extended until 2023. In the...
CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) announced that British Virgin Islands and Montserrat have joined the facility...
Natural disasters from droughts to floods are costing farmers in poorer countries billions of dollars a year in lost crops...
Willis Towers Watson, the London-based advisory, broking and solutions company, has developed the Global Ecosystem Resilience Facility (GERF), which it...
Britain is backing a hedge fund that aims to raise $200 million to give developing countries access to climate risk...
Aon Securities, the investment banking division of reinsurance intermediary and capital adviser Aon Benfield, has assisted the World Bank in...
India’s push toward universal health care has Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political opponents worried, a top government adviser said. Modi’s...