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  • Cat bond issuance reaches record $15bn in 2023

    15 December 2023

    Total capital deployed into cat bonds globally now stands at $41bn, Swiss Re said

  • Cyber risk's fundamental mischaracterisation as an insurance risk

    15 November 2023

    Tim Freestone and Malcolm McLelland argue for a radical overhaul of how cyber risk is quantified and priced. In the first of a two-part article, they explain the classification of cyber as a market risk and propose using modern financial theory to model it

  • Vesttoo founders suspended as board seeks to overcome crisis

    03 August 2023

    Yaniv Bertele and Alon Lifshitz on paid leave until board decides on their fate

  • AM Best to review collateral arrangements at fronting insurers

    25 July 2023

    Move follows allegations of fraudulent collateral used at Vesttoo

  • Gallagher Re: "Order restored" at mid-year reinsurance renewals following frustrating 1/1 season

    03 July 2023

    But reinsurance prices climb sharply in Australia and the US

  • RGA eyes pension risk transfer and Asian markets as top growth opportunities

    15 June 2023

    US life and health reinsurer looking to alternative capital to finance growth

  • Covid and lapses create pricing uncertainty in life ILS markets

    24 May 2023

    Market participants optimistic about opportunities despite investor hesitancy

  • Munich Re: global cyber insurance market to grow to $33bn by 2027

    28 April 2023

    The reinsurer expects a "turbulent cyber threat landscape" for 2023 and beyond

  • Italy's Eurovita suspends another debt payment

    27 March 2023

  • Sompo first Japanese insurer to issue social bond

    22 March 2023