Underwriting
Solving Financial System Cybersecurity Challenges Won’t Happen With Regulation: Fed Official
More rules may not be the best answer to protecting the financial system against cyber attacks, a Federal Reserve official said. "I don't think the solution to the cybersecurity problem rests in ...
U.S. Flood Insurance Reform Gets SmartSafer Lobbying Push
The latest attempt to overhaul the U.S. federal flood insurance program hit a stumbling block, but a coalition of business and environmental groups renewed their push on Wednesday for lawmakers to ...
AmTrust’s Financial Plans Earn A.M. Best Ratings Review With Negative Implications
AmTrust Financial Group's recent efforts to raise capital and stabilize its finances apparently aren't enough for A.M. Best, which placed the company's credit and financial strength ratings under ...
Zurich, in Cost-Cutting Move, Will Transfer German Legacy Malpractice Book to Catalina
Zurich Insurance Group said it will transfer its German legacy medical malpractice book to Bermuda-based Catalina for an undisclosed price. The portfolio represented $450 million of reserves as of ...
Britain’s Legal & General Is Expanding Into Japan
British's third-largest insurer, Legal & General, is launching an operation in Japan to offer company pension scheme insurance and investment management, Chief Executive Nigel Wilson said on ...
AmTrust Raising $950M by Selling Stake in Some Businesses to Private Equity Firm
AmTrust Financial Services will make about $950 million by selling a majority equity interest in some of its U.S.-based fee businesses to private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners. Barry Zyzkind, ...
A Market Correction is Coming in 2018: Willis Towers Watson Prediction
Thanks largely to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, commercial insurance buyers will face a market correction in 2018, Willis Towers Watson asserts in its 2018 Marketplace Realities report. In other ...
Fracking Poised to Resume in UK, 6 Years After Tremors Halted the Practice
Six years after Britain's first fracking operation was stymied by earth tremors, its shale gas industry is poised to try again with a technology that could transform the UK gas market and drastically ...