International
Marsh, Guy Carpenter, JLT Combining Latin America Facultative Reinsurance Operations
Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, all now under a single corporate umbrella, are planning to combine their facultative reinsurance operations in Latin America. The action ...
Brexit Inertia Leaves London’s Finance Workers With Summer Slump
The weeks before Easter are usually some of the busiest of the year for bankers, lawyers and consultants in the City of London, as clients rush to get deals done before a run of public holidays. But ...
Hannover Re Joins Carriers Scaling Back Coal-Based Risks
Hannover Re announced it is scaling back its exposure to coal-fired power plants and coal mines, joining a growing list of insurers and reinsurers that have made similar moves. In addition to ...
AI-Based InsurTech Cytora Raises $32.5 Million, With Focus on Commercial Insurance
Cytora, a developer of artificial intelligence-based products and services for the commercial insurance industry, has raised $32.5 million in new financing. The London-based startup said it will use ...
Munich Re Syndicate Singapore Inks Partnership With Lloyd’s Coverholder Nectar Specialty Risk
Munich Re Syndicate Singapore (MRSS) is partnering with a Singapore-based limited liability company and Lloyd's coverholder that provides tailor-made insurance and reinsurance products and services. ...
Executives On The Move at Sompo International and Liberty Mutual
Sompo International Holdings Ltd. promoted two executives. Liberty Mutual named a financial industry executive to its board of directors. *** Sompo International Holdings Ltd. named Thomas Brazil ...
Facebook ‘Unintentionally Uploaded’ Email Contacts of Up to 1.5M Users
Facebook Inc. said it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media ...
Most of Notre-Dame’s Treasures Saved by Contingency Evacuation Plan
Some 90 percent of the priceless relics and art works housed within the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral were saved from Monday's devastating fire as contingency plans to evacuate the treasures worked, ...