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Governments win in Covid-19 trade credit reinsurance programmes
07 April 2021Governments have profited from the support they offered trade credit insurers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Insurers say they have no regrets, but are looking forward to the end of state aid. David Walker reports
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Bermuda begins to move on climate
05 April 2021The regulator's inaugural climate change survey has found the island's insurers could be doing much more to address the issues associated with global warming. But insurers certainly seem interested in making progress, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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Conduit Re: starting up in shutdown
01 April 2021Bermuda's fledgling reinsurer, Conduit Re, raised a staggering $1bn in the midst of the pandemic and has readied itself to enter the market this year. Sarfraz Thind speaks to CRO Andrew Smith about how a slick little insurer got off the ground
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Mitiga Solutions makes the first volcano cat bond flow
26 March 2021The chief executive and catastrophe modelling lead at the Barcelona-headquartered risk manager tell Ronan McCaughey how the provider is helping to make history - and the importance of supercomputing in risk management
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L&G Re's Thomas Olunloyo: the island innovator
19 March 2021Thomas Olunloyo has come from a tough start to run L&G Reinsurance in Bermuda. He talks to Sarfraz Thind about technology and pandemics, and the attractions of the island and his plans to make sure it continues to thrive
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Regulators should encourage cat model diversity, says Oxford University study
17 March 2021Researchers have shown how the re/insurance markets can benefit from using a diversity of catastrophe models to understand and price their risk. So what are regulators doing about it? Christopher Cundy reports
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Steering NewRe through the Covid-19 stress test
10 March 2021NewRe's chief risk officer (CRO) Christian Dahmen was highly commended in InsuranceERM's 2021 awards. He tells Ronan McCaughey about overhauling the reinsurer's risk management function and emerging risks to monitor
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Bank of England ignites the debate on UK-EU Solvency II equivalence
12 February 2021The EU is in no rush to grant the UK reciprocal equivalence on Solvency II and has stirred anger by saying it wants to see how far the UK diverges before giving the green light. Paul Walsh assesses the state of play and whether there is any potential for a future agreement
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Covid-19 claims fall short of forecasts... so far
29 September 2020Cintia Cheong investigates why claims related to the pandemic have failed to live up to forecasts in the early part of this year
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The cloud is a silver lining amid Covid-19
16 September 2020Covid-19 has put to bed any doubts about the use of cloud technology for risk and capital management. The pandemic will also drive more sophisticated risk modelling, as Ronan McCaughey discusses in his review of key trends in the risk software markets