Emerging Markets
Ford’s Auto Partner in China Completes 1,200-Mile Self-Driving Car Test
Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ford Motor Co.'s partner in China, said it completed a 1,200-mile road trip to test a self-driving car as part of its ambitions to produce highly automated vehicles ...
XL Catlin Exec Joins UN Effort to Bring Insurance Concepts Into Global Disaster Planning
XL Catlin Executive Deputy Chairman Stephen Catlin is among the business and political leaders spearheading a global effort to make insurance more sustainable in the face of growing climate risks and ...
White Mountains Closes $2.6B Sale of Reinsurer Sirius to China Minsheng Investment
White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. completed its $2.6 billion sale of Sirius International Insurance Group to a division of China Minsheng Investment Corp. Ltd., nine months after the deal with ...
TigerRisk Partners Lures Swiss Re Exec to Help Further ILS Business
TigerRisk Partners is tapping a former Swiss Re executive to help shape and grow its insurance-linked securities business. Philipp Kusche has been appointed partner and global head of ILS and capital ...
Death Toll in Massive Ecuador Quake Rises to 233
The death toll from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador has risen to 233, President Rafael Correa said a day after the quake on the South American country's northwest coast, one of the strongest in ...
Executives On The Move at XL Catlin, Hamilton and Ironshore
Hamilton Underwriting hired on a new head of professional indemnity. An Ironshore executive appointment will focus on complex risk exposures involving war and terrorism, and kidnap and ransom, and be ...
Chubb Deal with China Retailer Gives It Access to Massive Online Customer Base
Chubb Ltd. is linking up with one of China's largest and most recognized retailers in a deal that gives it access to and online customer base of as many as 230 million people. Financial details of ...
Ping An Insurance Grabs $1.6B Stake in Chinese Car Website
Ping An Insurance Group Co., China's second-largest insurer, agreed to buy a 48 percent stake in Chinese car website Autohome Inc. from Telstra Corp. for $1.6 billion, extending a shopping spree by ...