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Death of Crypto Exchange Founder Means Startup Can’t Retrieve Digital Assets
Digital-asset exchange Quadriga CX has a $200 million problem with no obvious solution -- just the latest cautionary tale in the unregulated world of cryptocurrencies. The online startup can't ...
Hiscox, Chubb Among Investors With CoverHound’s New $58M Series D Financing
Multiple carriers participated in CoverHound's new $58 million Series D financing, money the online insurance comparison shopping platform plans to use to fuel global expansion. Hiscox led the round, ...
For years, the insurance industry has been working to reduce the friction that slows down underwriting, claims, and servicing. Now,...
SCOR’s CEO Counters Angry Investors With Promises of New Strategy
French reinsurer Scor's Chief Executive Denis Kessler promised on Tuesday to release a strategic plan that would set new targets for the company, in a move to assuage an activist fund that questioned ...
Ex-Swiss Re Exec Will Grow AXIS Re’s Strategic Partners Division Into North America
AXIS Re said it is expanding its AXIS Re Strategic Partners division into North America, and is bringing on a former Swiss Re executive to carry out the move. AXIS Re, the reinsurance business ...
Insurers Struggle to Keep Up With Sharing Economy Demands
As more and more consumers click for services and borrow rather than buy, the sharing economy is benefitting. According to Harvard Business Review, the sharing or on-demand economy is attracting more ...
Executives On The Move at Liberty Mutual/Ironshore and Church Mutual
Liberty Mutual's Ironshore Specialty Casualty made two executive appointments involving its Programs business unit in the U.S. Church Mutual Insurance Company promoted four executives into new ...
UK Businesses Pull Back Due to Fears of ‘The Hardest of Brexits’: Deloitte Survey
Major British businesses' appetite to take on financial risk has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade due to fears of "the hardest of Brexits" and rising U.S. protectionism, a survey by ...
The Hartford Reorganizes Specialty Operations in Anticipation of Navigators Acquisition Closing
The Hartford is releasing its new operating model and organizational structure set to be in place when its $2.1 billion acquisition of specialty insurer The Navigators Group closes. Plans call for ...