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  • Sompo expands risks and skills by buying US specialist Lexon

    04 January 2018

    Japanese M&A underscores Fitch's recent prediction of foreign deals in 2018

  • Japanese insurer's natcat losses among industry's highest

    20 November 2017

    MS&AD reports half-year profit despite catastrophe hits

  • Mitsui Sumitomo to invest £800m in Swiss Re's UK life business

    06 October 2017

    Three-year plan to take a 15% stake in ReAssure

  • Mitsui Sumitomo drives Asian expansion by buying Singapore rival

    24 August 2017

    Japanese firm also suggests further growth elsewhere through global partnership with Fairfax

  • Lloyd's CROs create new committee

    11 November 2015

    Chaucer's Penny Shaw to chair LMA's chief risk officer group

  • S&P cuts rating of ten Japanese insurers

    17 September 2015

    Knock-on effect of Japan's sovereign rating downgrade

  • Mitsui to acquire Amlin for £3.5bn

    08 September 2015

    Japanese insurer expands presence in Europe and US

  • RMS partners with MSIG Mingtai Insurance to model Taiwanese typhoon risk

    27 August 2015

    Model will form part of RMS' Asia Typhoon Model

  • The innovation game

    14 August 2015

    As venture capitalists invest a record amount of money in insurance technology, insurers are joining their ranks in the race to find the next disruptive technology. Asa Gibson reports

  • Stress-testing the red tape

    30 July 2015

    Is the regulatory bureaucracy imposed on the London market damaging its ability to react in the aftermath of a major catastrophe? Christopher Cundy reports