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Insurers: Ignore the FinTech Revolution at Your Long-Term Peril
While 90 percent of insurers fear they will lose business to a FinTech start-up, only 43 percent say they have put FinTech at the heart of their corporate strategies, according to report published by ...
Reinsurers Stock Prices Hit as Soft Market Persists: A.M. Best
While global reinsurers are continuing to withstand challenging market conditions, their stock prices, on average, are starting to take a hit as a result of the persistent soft market and its ...
Soft Market Remains Top Reinsurance Industry Worry: Xuber Survey
Soft market conditions continue to be the biggest concern for the industry, followed by regulation, competition from third party capital, low investment returns, cyber crime and maintaining ...
Lloyd’s Syndicates Soared With Low 2015 Catastrophe Losses: S&P
Benign catastrophe losses, combined with lower and less frequent casualty lines claims, helped Lloyd's syndicates deliver another strong set of results in 2015, reporting an average combined ratio of ...
U.S. Treasury Reviewing Fosun’s Acquisition of Ironshore
United States authorities are conducting a review of China's Fosun Group's acquisition in November 2015 of Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ...
Declined D&O Claims Have Global Relevance: Marsh
When a directors and officers (D&O) claim is declined, it can be catastrophic for an insured, forcing the company to deal with "the financial costs of a claim or loss entirely on its own," ...
Reinsurance Demand Spike Likely with Solvency II: Fitch Ratings
Solvency II will increase insurers' demand for reinsurance products as they seek to strengthen their capital positions via risk transfer, according to a report published by Fitch Ratings. Reinsurance ...
CFOs Need to Look at Their Companies ‘Holistically’: Hamilton Group’s CFO Reiss
A successful chief financial officer needs to be collegial, cooperative, highly visible and a strategic thinker who has the ability to view corporate risks holistically, according to Jonathan Reiss, ...