Archive

• Marine insurance blockchain platform hopes to cut costs, risks and capital

  07 June 2018

  The world's first blockchain platform for the marine insurance sector was launched at the end of May. Paul Walsh sits down with some of the platform's leaders to discuss how it will save costs and reduce risk

• Insurers caught in crossfire of Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline

  31 May 2018

  Unfriend Coal has urged insurers to stop backing tar sands projects

• Microinsurance offers a lesson in technology and agility

  22 May 2018

  Opportunities in emerging markets are flourishing, but traditional insurers cannot simply transpose their western business models. Aggelos Andreou finds the use of technology and a change in mindset are the keys to opening the doors

• IMIF publishes guidance on op risk modelling and insurance purchases

  30 April 2018

  Survey highlights variation in practice across the industry

• Reinsurers' pain laid bare in Willis Re's 2017 industry review

  23 April 2018

  Only four of 34 groups registered improved combined ratios

• Model risk management - why should we care?

  17 April 2018

  There are clear benefits to insurers from taking a holistic approach to managing model risk, says Phil Whittingham

• Lloyd's syndicates detail extent of natcat losses

  10 April 2018

  Annual accounts from Lloyd's syndicates show a leap in combined ratios and losses following 2017's natural catastrophes. David Walker analyses the figures

• XL Catlin licenses Praedicat's casualty catastrophe models

  06 April 2018

  Software helps to predict the "next asbestos"

• XL Catlin steps up Brexit plans with contract continuity clause

  19 March 2018

  Addresses potential loss of EU passporting post-Brexit

• XL Catlin joins Asian insurtech consortium

  15 March 2018

  Underwriter's move in latest of insurtech developments across Asia