Archive

  • Cyber insurers showcase the opportunity from continuous underwriting

    25 July 2024

    Continuous underwriting has enabled cyber insurers to better understand their liabilities and improve profitability - and it's an approach the rest of the market could copy, as Paul Walsh reports

  • Global Atlantic's transformational technology officer

    07 June 2024

    Padma Elmgart talks to Sarfraz Thind about her work in modernising the tech structure of the fast-growing US annuity provider

  • The insurance implications of a US presidential election

    17 May 2024

    Polarised politics, civil disorder and cyber-attacks are just some of the concerns insurance experts have raised about the build-up to the November election and its outcome. Paul Walsh reports

  • Cyber risk is systematically priced in the capital markets: evidence from the Target cyber-attack

    09 May 2024

    In the second part of their article on quantifying and pricing cyber risk, Tim Freestone and Malcolm McLelland respond to reader queries and share further proof of their theory

  • AI: Superintelligent or superdangerous?

    22 April 2024

    The development of "superintelligent" AI could be the biggest shift - and some say threat - in the course of human evolution. Insurers will need to get to grips with it fast, as Sarfraz Thind examines

  • Didier Millerot on the "dual transition", Solvency II and the future of regulation

    29 January 2024

    The European Commission's head of insurance talks to Joshua Geer about the Solvency II review, the two major challenges facing insurers and what the future regulatory landscape will look like

  • 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

  • Stopping cyber curveballs and building resilience

    18 October 2023

    US experts spoke at InsuranceERM's Americas conference in New York to share best practice and the regulatory view on cyber risk. Ronan McCaughey reports

  • Quantum computing in insurance

    10 October 2023

    The emergence of super-powerful computing technologies creates opportunities and risks for insurers, as Vidyut Navelkar, Sridhar CV and Felix Schachter explore

  • Reinsurers expand their risk radars, but usual suspects aren't far away

    21 September 2023

    The emerging risks identified by reinsurers at the annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) event included some familiar foes and new additions, but all are being targeted with confidence. Paul Walsh reports