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Eurohold will appeal bankruptcy decision on Euroins Romania

Romanian motor insurer makes last-ditch effort to avoid shutdown

Moody's RMS opens the door to open-source cat modelling

The leading catastrophe modelling firm has taken a major step in allowing its users access to third-party models, based on open-source standards, alongside its proprietary offerings. But its embrace of the open-source world is limited, as Christopher Cundy reports

Chesnara acquires Canada Life UK's protection business

EBRD questions regulatory intervention at Romania's Euroins

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invested in Euroins in 2021

Hannover Re and Parametrix working to bring cloud outage ILS to market

The offering is planned to be several tens of million dollars

Settling claims lands Bermudian insurers with $90m of salvage aircraft

Other unusual items on insurers' books in 2021 included boats, artworks and holiday homes

Plenty of runway left for life consolidation in Europe

The business of consolidating life insurance portfolios is looking healthy, according to participants, as inflation provides a catalyst and supervisors become more familiar with transactions. Joshua Geer reports

Life back-book consolidators shrug off threat from rising rates

Rising interest rates are unlikely to stop life insurers from selling their legacy liabilities to consolidators, as many other incentives for doing deals remain. David Walker reports

Russian-Ukrainian exposure at Europe's insurers revealed

Insurance Risk Data finds Allianz takes top spot for number of stakes in war-zone businesses

CROs "moving beyond the silos" for future risk management

European and North American CROs discussed future risk modelling trends during a recent roundtable