September 2004/1

The London headquartered outsourcing firm Xchanging has been chosen by Arch Insurance Company (Europe) Ltd to run the company's back office requirements. Xchanging has signed a six-year deal with the firm which, earlier this year, received approval fro

Japanese insurance giant Mitsui Sumitomo has issued a warning that it has no connection with obscure UK managing agency AP Underwriting Ltd after discovering the company was allegedly offering false Mitsui security. On 26 August, Mitsui announced that

The long-established practice of issuing "Tonners" - policies that can pay out even though there is no insurable interest - was banned by legislation nearly 100 years ago. Now that the Lloyd’s market is more familiar with Alternative Risk Transfer techniq

Specialist Lloyd’s insurer Kiln has announced that it will withdraw from Syndicate 557 under its 2005 business plan, allowing the syndicate to become, in its words, “entirely Names-owned”.

QBE, the second largest Lloyd's insurer with capacity of almost £1bn, has streamlined its London based operations by appointing Limit chief Stephen Burns to become the head of its newly unified European arm.

Despite sluggish share prices, Lloyd’s quoted insurers are unveiling impressive interims... Amlin's strong posting kicks off Lloyd's reporting season Amlin began the Lloyd’s results season by posting exceptionally impressive results - including a 17.2

Lloyd's insurers are fighting multi-million dollar losses arising from Capital Bonding Corporation, a controversial programme administrator for US bail bond companies. Lloyd's, together with participants such as Converium, provided reinsurance to domes

In our regular monthly News Digest, we round up key stories from the last month, presenting them to you in easily digestable snippets.

US reinsurance exposures remain a potent threat after 2Q activity As the global reinsurance industry convenes at the annual Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous de Septembre they will be unable to avoid a depressing reality - under-reserving of US reinsurance busin

Devastating S&P downgrade has compounded the troubles for Swiss reinsurer following under-reserving revelations and share price collapse... As the great and the good from the reinsurance industry converge at the annual Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vo

London MGA Hogarth Underwriting has hit back at the FSA over the authority's plans to take it to court for placing business in the UK on behalf of unauthorised insurer CIC. Greek domiciled CIC, which started to target distressed UK liability sectors su

Agency issues wake-up call and raises fears of a looming liquidity crisis... Questions have again been raised over the liquidity of Fairfax Holdings after ratings agency Fitch placed the Canadian financial services holding company on a negative rating