CFO / Financial
UK Insurers, Banks Make Contingency Plans for ‘Hard Brexit’: BofE’s Carney
Banks based in Britain may start to relocate activities to other countries about one-and-a-half years before a British departure from the European Union if a "hard Brexit" looks likely, Bank of ...
Argo Group Buying Ariel Re for $235M
Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., announcing its first major acquisition in eight years, said it will buy Ariel Re for roughly $235 million cash in a deal that could make it a top 10 market at ...
Hannover Re Soars Toward a Possible $1B Profit for 2016
German reinsurer Hannover Re could make a net profit of 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) this year while the dividend payout is likely to be in line with last year, the firm's chief financial officer ...
Will GoFundMe Disrupt the Insurance Industry?
Insurers eyeing disruption from the newest cohort of peer-to-peer insurers, including names like Lemonade and Friendsurance, may have be overlooking the biggest potential disrupters of them ...
Generali’s Asset Management Unit Helped Support Q3 Performance
Assicurazioni Generali, Italy's biggest insurer, said on Thursday its operating profits were down 5.6 percent so far this year but despite low interest rates the performance had improved in the third ...
New Technologies Improving Hurricane Mitigation and Building Resiliency
New technological developments are now poised to reduce the likelihood of hurricane wind damage and to improve our understanding of the impact hurricanes have on existing building inventory. These ...
Next Steps for Cybersecurity Model Law
Having faced a lot of "can't be done" reactions to initiatives like increasing competition in the North Dakota's health insurance market and changing a centuries-old life insurance reserving ...
AIG Apartment Mortgage Lending Climbs 20 Percent, Reaching $5.2B
American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, has been increasing lending for apartments as the company seeks to counter low yields on publicly traded ...