News

  • Saudi Arabia's Saico selects FIS for IFRS 17 implementation

    07 May 2021

    The insurer said it made a thorough assessment of the IFRS 17 vendor space

  • Insurance Risk Data launches dashboard dissecting Europe's insurance groups

    07 May 2021

    New dashboard offers more than a dozen charts and tables analysing subsidiary data

  • Private equity buyers remain charmed by insurance sector

    07 May 2021

    Investors are driving significant interest in M&A deals, says FTI Consulting

  • Climate change could drive hurricane losses 24% higher by 2050

    06 May 2021

    RMS adds European flood insured losses could rise 59% by mid-century due to climate risk

  • Munich Re's Q1 profit soars after reduced Covid-19 impact

    06 May 2021

    But CFO Christoph Jurecka warns of further uncertainties from the pandemic

  • Europe's non-life claims rose 3% in 2020, while life claims fell

    06 May 2021

    Solvency ratios at year-end remain depressed, Eiopa figures reveal

  • Sustainability push must be backed up by regulatory consensus

    05 May 2021

    Experts also warn against imposing overly complex regulations on insurers

  • French insurers warned climate change could hike claims sixfold

    05 May 2021

    Pilot study put insurers and banks though three 30-year global warming scenarios

  • Australia to guarantee property reinsurance pool in natcat-prone north

    05 May 2021

    The A$10bn support shows "underwriters will not stand alone," says local government head

  • COMMENT: Explaining the Bowles bombshell

    05 May 2021

    Sharon Bowles said IFRS 17 "cannot be proper accounting" but there are a lot who disagree, as Christopher Cundy discusses