ILS

Reinsurers will continue to grapple with a competitive environment characterised by a sharp imbalance between supply and demand in 2017, where the maintenance of even adequate returns is dependent on prior-year reserve releases and benign cat experience.

The UK Treasury has confirmed it will put forward the final regulations for implementing the London insurance-linked securities (ILS) framework early next year despite fears that there would be delays following the vote for Brexit

Global reinsurers' capital rose by 4 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2016 to reach $585bn, according to Aon Benfield

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The Gator Re cat bond faces claims that have eroded 85 percent of the deal's deductible, sources told sister publication Trading Risk.

Vario Partners has won backing from a large Middle Eastern reinsurer as it prepares to launch its first fund and issue its first whole-account insurance securities, the company told sister publication Trading Risk.

Zenkyoren is looking to add to its multi-year aggregate insurance through a new $250mn Nakama Re cat bond, sister publication Trading Risk has reported.

Ledger Investing, the start-up led by former AIG head of capital markets Samir Shah, is aiming to disrupt the insurance industry not by targeting new client-facing or distribution innovations but by starting with back-end operations

Samir Shah, the former head of capital markets at AIG, has joined a start-up technology-focused firm working in insurance securitisations

Insured losses from the magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday morning are expected to be relatively low, according to various modelling firms

Swiss Re, Everest Re and several insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds are among the major reinsurance providers for United Insurance Holdings carrier UPC Insurance and American Coastal Insurance (ACIC).

Matt Fairfield's forthcoming (re)insurance start-up Exin is at the nexus of a range of different industry developments witnessed in recent times.