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Global Insurance Premium Grows at Healthy Clip Despite Trade Slowdown: Swiss Re
Despite a challenging business environment and global trade slowdown in 2015, global direct premiums written grew by 3.8 percent in real terms, up from 3.5 percent in 2014, according to Swiss Re's ...
Brexit Fallout: QBE to Review UK-Based Operations; Marsh Maps Exit Options
QBE Insurance Group announced this week that it will be reviewing its U.K.-based operations in light of last week's vote in the U.K. to leave the European Union. "The referendum outcome may require a ...
Post-Brexit, UK Insurance Industry Attempts to Calm Nerves
The U.K. joined the European Union in January 1973, and yesterday, the U.K. public voted to leave. After 43 years of marriage, the divorce proceedings will soon begin. No one knows how long it will ...
UK’s Insurance Act May Lead to More Intense Rate Competition: Fitch Wire
A new U.K. law, designed to make it harder for insurers to dispute commercial insurance claims, could lead to more intense price competition and slimmer margins for the sector, according to Fitch ...
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 ...