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Cathay Financial Holding to Acquire Conning
Financial services provider Cathay Financial Holding Co. Ltd. announced Wednesday that the board of directors of its subsidiary, Cathay Life Insurance Co. Ltd., approved the acquisition of global ...
Survey: Cyber Attacks + Terrorism Top Reinsurance Worries
Cyber attacks and terrorism may be shaping up as the big emerging risks reinsurers face in 2015. About 40 percent of industry respondents to a recent Guy Carpenter & Co. survey said cyber attacks ...
The Hidden Cost of Standing Still: Legacy Platforms Slow Growth and Halt the Shift to AI-Enabled Insurance Business
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There is a hidden disease that is killing insurers — the disease of legacy technology. The problem is a matter...
Global Insurers Bidding for Turkey’s Halkbank Insurance/Pension Arms
Insurers from Europe, Asia and the United States are among some 20 potential bidders in the sale by Turkey's state-run Halkbank of its pension and insurance arms, three sources close to the process ...
CEOs Traveling to Asia Targeted by ‘Darkhotel’ Cyber Spies
Business executives traveling in Asia and elsewhere have become victims of malware called Darkhotel, a bug that targets guests of high-end hotels through their networks, a computer-security firm ...
Marsh Announces Senior Executive Appointments
Insurance broker Marsh on Monday announced two executive appointments, naming Michael Cormier head of Portfolio Development and hiring Michael Poulos as head of Client Advisory Services. Cormier most ...
Judge Refuses to Fire Gulf Oil Spill Claims Admin
A federal judge has rejected a call from BP to fire the administrator of damage claims arising from a settlement that followed the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ...
Hudson Insurance Acquires Surety Business Portfolio
Hudson Insurance Group has acquired the underwriting operations of Surety Partners of America, Northeast. As part of the transaction, Michael Blount and James Balzan will join the team at Hudson ...
Liberty Mutual Discloses Major Q3 Gains
Liberty Mutual Holding Company concluded its 2014 third quarter with another jump in net income, higher revenues, a new reinsurance agreement and more than $1 billion in debt raised to help ...