Strategy
Pushing and Pulling Lloyd’s Into the 21st Century
Twenty-five years ago, the Lloyd's of London marketplace was teetering on the brink of insolvency, reeling from billions of dollars of asbestos and pollution liabilities. Many of the best brains in ...
Getsafe CEO Predicts Lemonade Will ‘Struggle’ in Germany
Lemonade has promise but won't necessarily face smooth sailing with an expansion into Germany, predicts the head of Getsafe, one of its European rivals. "Lemonade will have to struggle in Germany," ...
UPDATED: Nationwide to Adopt Bold Penguin’s Digital Portal Tech For Commercial Lines P/C Agents
Nationwide is partnering with Bold Penguin, a digital portal startup for commercial lines property/casualty agents, in an effort to speed up the underwriting process for its products. The insurer ...
China Pledges to Remove Financial Company Foreign Ownership Limits by 2020
China said it will bring forward plans to remove foreign ownership limits on financial companies, as it speeds up efforts to open the $44 trillion industry to overseas competitors. Full foreign ...
Giving a Presentation? Focus on Making the Message Clear and Relatable
Nearly every executive has experienced or will experience giving a presentation to an audience. In turn, many audiences have seen an executive presentation that drones on and on and veers into too ...
Swiss Re’s Proposed Spinoff of ReAssure Valued at Up to $4.2B
UK life assurance business ReAssure will be valued at up to 3.3 billion pounds ($4.2 billion) when it floats on the London Stock Exchange, its largest shareholder Swiss Re said on Thursday. Swiss Re, ...
Moody’s, Israel’s Team8 Link Up to Create Global Cyber Risk Assessment Standard for Businesses
Ratings agency Moody's Corp and Israeli cyber group Team8 launched on Thursday a joint venture to assess how vulnerable businesses are to cyber attacks and create what they hope will become a global ...
China’s Fosun Group Continues Corporate Shopping Spree, Debt Be Damned
About three years after China started reining in an overseas acquisition spree by some of its home-grown companies, the binge all but ended. But not for Fosun Group. The 27-year-old conglomerate, ...