Opinion

Insurance Insider has compiled a digest of a complex web of regulatory reforms that will take shape during the next 18 months.

The pressure is on Lloyds to deliver benefits as other players build up their domestic E&S platforms.

The personal lines strategy mirrors the buy, build and sell playbook you would see from a sponsor.

This CVC investment has come hot on the heels of an H1 result which showed performance plus growth, and should be interpreted as vindication of the work done at Lloyd’s.

The psychological wounds of the past were serious, and the sector’s redemption arc with capital will take time to play out.

The paradox of “the best reinsurance market in years” is that there are still question marks over who wants a piece of it.

However minor an irritant these losses are for global carriers, their impact is likely to have an outsized influence on the narrative heading into the 1 January renewals.

Prior-year legacy deals and higher reinsurance costs are just some of the issues that brokers, MGAs and other cedants are confronting in clearing up after the debacle over allegations regarding faked letters of credit.

Beazley and Lancashire’s plans to launch US units exemplify wider competitive challenges that the market must overcome to thrive.

WTW exploring reinsurance exec recruitment comes at a time of competitive tension in the market.

Areas of focus should include hiring external talent, securing capital for M&A, speeding up US growth, and answering the reinsurance question.

The fallout from Coutts’ cancellation of Nigel Farage as a client provides useful lessons as companies adopt bolder stances around issues such as social justice and climate change.

The issues have put a spotlight on partial collateralisation, the leverage of the fronts, and the challenges of assigning responsibility.

The Corporation has had to navigate challenging trade-offs around its succession planning.

It didn’t take long after the Validus-RenRe deal for the next possible reinsurance consolidation target to emerge.

Cancellations of music events due to performers’ mental health conditions is one of the issues, alongside strikes and the energy crisis, which are challenging contingency underwriters.

The reaction to capital raising this year signals that investor belief in risk-takers is reinvigorated.

Contrasting views have been shared on the feasibility of carriers deploying risk capital, at scale, for a proposed war insurance pool to support Ukraine's rebuilding projects.

The market has suffered from a glut of capital, and a number of structural features that make winning hard.

The Big Three reinsurance brokers face a number of factors that could challenge their supremacy.

After founder members Axa and Allianz dealt a potentially terminal blow to the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance by withdrawing, the NZIA is exploring limited options to continue.

The ongoing debate raging in London on the nuances of cyber war wordings threatens to wreak more reputational damage on the industry if a consensus is not found.

Blenheim’s withdrawal from property treaty highlights questions around London’s role as a reinsurance centre of excellence.

Both oil and gas and renewables insurers are at the sharp end of the insurance industry’s ESG journey.