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This Year’s Global Insurance Symposium Innovators Promote Better Use of Existing Industry Products
For all the talk of technology disrupting insurance, most of the innovations unveiled at the 2018 Global Insurance Symposium were focused on helping consumers, agents, brokers and carriers make ...
Oklahoma Wildfires Kill Hundreds of Cattle, Destroy More than 300,000 Acres
Wind-driven wildfires that began in mid-April, fueled by severe drought, have killed hundreds of cattle and destroyed more than 300,000 acres in Oklahoma, authorities said on Monday. Oklahoma has ...
Insurers Are Exploring Whether They Must Use Blockchain to Compete or Collaborate
Blockchain isn't coming to insurance. It's already here. Leading insurance organizations are participating in alliances to adapt blockchain capabilities to insurance transactions, according to ...
Validus, Prepping to Be Acquired by AIG, Lost Money in Q1
Validus Holdings reported it lost money during the 2018 first quarter, due partly to more expenses, an underwriting loss in its insurance segment and a drop in income for the carrier's reinsurance ...
Lloyd’s CFO Parry Plans to Depart After 17 Years
Lloyd's of London announced today that Chief Financial Officer John Parry has decided to leave the corporation after 17 years. Parry joined Lloyd's in August 2001. He was appointed chief financial ...
A Brexit ‘No Deal’ Less Likely, Thanks to Crucial UK House of Lords Vote
The U.K.'s upper house sought to make it harder for Prime Minister Theresa May to take Britain out of the European Union without a deal by defeating her for a seventh time over the government's ...
With $3.6B in Global Cat Bond Issuance for Q1, Another Record Is Broken
Global catastrophe bond issuance broke a first-quarter record, come in at nearly $3.6 billion for Q1 2018 as the market expanded into new areas, Aon Securities said in its latest report. The $3.58 ...
A ‘Cliff-Edge’ Brexit Will Lead to UK/EU Banking Regulatory Team Up
The Bank of England and European Central Bank will create a task force to keep markets orderly in the event of a "cliff edge" Brexit next March. The European Commission and Britain's finance ministry ...