International
  
  
  07 December 2015
  Low interest rates mean insurers can no longer rely on robust  investment returns and must understand and reduce their growing vertical  and horizontal exposures, according to the American Institute of Marine  Underwriters…
  
  07 December 2015
  Insurers can improve their cyber-risk profiles and avoid unnecessary  litigation by designing new policies, creating single-risk limits and  establishing contingency reserves, AM Best says…
  
  07 December 2015
  Lloyd’s says it will continue to play a key role on climate change  risk analysis, supporting awareness among consumers and reducing  environmental impacts…
  
  07 December 2015
  The European Commission has recognised the Bermuda Monetary  Authority’s prudential framework for reinsurance as meeting the  impending Solvency II requirements…
  
  07 December 2015
  US commercial property and casualty rates fell 3% last month after dropping 2% in October, according to analyst MarketScout…
  
  07 December 2015
  Lloyd’s Hong Kong General Representative Dylan Bryant will leave the  market to become Head of Sales North Asia for Swiss Re Corporate  Solutions in the first quarter of next year…
  
  30 November 2015
  Eight Lloyd’s syndicates have committed $US400 million to help emerging nations tackle underinsurance and improve  economic resilience against natural catastrophes…
  
  30 November 2015
  Allianz has teamed up with Chinese internet search giant Baidu and  Asian investment company Hillhouse Capital Group to establish an online  insurance company in the world’s second-biggest economy…
  
  30 November 2015
  US cyber-insurance rates increased more than 15% on average in the  third quarter, bucking the composite commercial lines decline of 4.8%,  according to Marsh…
  
  30 November 2015
  Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has called for  submissions on the use of Big Data in the retail general insurance  sector…
  
  30 November 2015
  Nearly all the world’s major disasters over the past 20 years can be  blamed on weather, with an estimated cost of $US250-$350 billion each year, according to a United Nations report…
  
  30 November 2015
  Fraud affects 75% of companies across the world, according to this  year’s Kroll Global Fraud Report, with emerging economic superpower  India among the worst-hit nations…
  
  23 November 2015
  Lloyd’s has welcomed new draft regulations governing its registration and operation of a reinsurance branch in India…
  
  23 November 2015
  Insurers’ financial stability may be undermined by climate change, according to Standard & Poor’s…
  
  23 November 2015
  Ace has unveiled its team to oversee 13 markets in the Asia-Pacific  region, including Australia, when the merger with US insurer Chubb is  completed in the first quarter of next year…
  
  23 November 2015
  Businesses that understand and manage risk well perform better  financially and have less volatile stock, according to the new Aon Risk  Maturity Index Insight Report…
  
  23 November 2015
  The rapidly growing cyber-cover market poses risks for insurers as  they respond to rising demand for protection against data theft and  other attacks, according to a Moody’s report…
  
  23 November 2015
  The UK Government’s flood reinsurance pool is on course to begin  operating in April as planned, after it officially became a statutory  body and secured £1.29 billion of cover from global  reinsurers…
  
  23 November 2015
  Industry think-tank the Geneva Association has backed moves to  counter climate change in the run-up to next week’s United Nations  summit on the issue…
  
  23 November 2015
  Terrorism caused record levels of economic damage last year,  according to a new report from the Institute for Economics & Peace, a global think-tank based in Sydney…