Interviews

"I want it to be almost embarrassing for Lloyd’s not to give us light-touch [status] because our results are so good,” CEO Brad Irick told this publication.

The London Market Group’s CEO Caroline Wagstaff has set out how the approach of regulators needs to evolve, amid regulatory reforms.

Inflationary pressure and climate change meant the market effectively gave ground to cedants despite nominal price rises.

The Hiscox London Market CEO said better digital access to EC3 would go a long way to securing the market’s relevance on the global stage.

In an interview, group CEO David Walsh and CEO Graeme Newman discussed securing growth, technology and the importance of capital optionality following CFC’s most recent PE buy in.

Executives said they were surprised that underwriters had staged more of a return than brokers.

The eponymous CEO alongside strategy head Stephen Cross and Warburg Pincus’s James O’Gara talk growth, revenue and talent two years into the project.

The executive explained the carrier was ready to pivot to growth after exiting some EUR700mn of business as part of its extensive turnaround programme.

The broker’s head of corporate risk and broking for GB also said that not all wholesale brokers would survive in the digital world.

The intensity of recent cat activity in the US, Japan and Europe means the market is positive for reinsurers, the executive said.