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14 August 2026   First full quarter with Aspen dovetails with strong renewals; reinsurance revenue up 92%.

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Buying cyber insurance increasingly means buying resilience. Panellists explore how carriers are helping clients prevent, respond to and recover from attacks.
Generalised threat fear has cooled since last year, while AI now determines both why clients buy cover and what underwriters ask them.
For three years, cyber policies excluded state-backed attacks. Now insurers are writing the cover again as threats escalate, testing whether a once-uninsurable risk can be priced.
Welcome to Intelligent Insurer’s second Leaders in Parametric publication.
While advances in technology and data quality grab the headlines, industry leaders emphasise that progress, or lack of it, ultimately hangs on the humans in the equation.
Augment Risk’s CEO explains how a focus on capital, rather than conventional broking, is shaping strategy and client relationships in a changing market.
Prioritises long-term partners over cheap or new capital, says new head of outwards re.

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Welcome to Intelligent Insurer’s Cyber Report 2026. Explore the trends, challenges and opportunities shaping one of insurance’s fastest-moving markets.
Underwriters are bracing for a surge in AI-enabled fraud and deepfakes while pivoting their growth strategies toward smaller, under-penetrated businesses.
A year after respondents called systemic risk the industry’s ultimate stress test, their biggest concern is whether a soft market is underpricing risk.
More than half of people worldwide have already been hit by a cyber attack in their private lives, says a new report by Munich Re.

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Parametric products, along with all traditional insurance offerings, will be traded entirely differently in the coming years, and the resulting landscape could surprise and excite.
Parametric cover should be considered at the start of a placement. Leaving it until last could mean missed opportunities to improve capital efficiency and risk transfer.
Three industry leaders from contrasting backgrounds outline the principal tasks ahead in order to ensure parametrics cement and augment their place in the broader risk landscape.
Senior leaders point to the need to simplify and focus the message to move the sector to the next level.
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