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HDI-backed Swedish insurtech Hedvig raises $10.4m for market expansion

Stockholm-based digital insurance start-up Hedvig has secured 100 million SEK ($10.4 million) in a Series A funding to expand its operations beyond the Nordics.   29 August 2019

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Liberty Specialty Markets appoints head of financial lines France from AIG

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Antoine Brodu as head of financial lines, France.   29 August 2019

Insurance

Personal lines insurance broker Be Wiser latest to join BIBA

The British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA) has added UK-based broker Be Wiser as a member of the organisation.   29 August 2019

Insurance

Saudi Re enjoys big increase in profits in first half of year

Saudi Reinsurance Company (Saudi Re) enjoyed a big increase in its profits in the first half of the year.   19 August 2019

Insurance

Re/insurers struggling with California wildfire risk despite rate hikes: S&P

The market for re/insuring California wildfire risk remain in disarray with no consensus on what constitutes adequate rates and little comfort with the risk despite substantial updates to wildfire risk models.   19 August 2019

Insurance

S&P praises improved underwriting discipline of Asia Capital Re

Asia Capital Re has improved its underwriting discipline and is in good shape to achieve stable growth over the next two years, according to rating agency S&P Global Ratings (S&P), which has affirmed the reinsurer’s financial strength rating at ‘A-’, and maintained its outlook for the Singapore-headquartered reinsurer at ‘Stable’.   19 August 2019

Insurance

Aon appoints Magee as UK chairman of its reinsurance business

Broker Aon has appointed a new UK chairman of its reinsurance business.   19 August 2019

Insurance

Arch buys insurtech managing general underwriter Ventus Risk Management

Arch Insurance North America has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire insurtech managing general underwriter (MGU) Ventus Risk Management.   15 August 2019

Insurance

M&A activity to continue as reinsurers grapple with challenging conditions, claims new report

Challenging business conditions, coupled with cheap financing in the debt market, will continue to fuel mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity and drive consolidation in the global reinsurance market, according to a new report from Standard & Poor (S&P).   14 August 2019

Insurance

Lloyd’s carriers 'genuinely' embrace e-placing, beat targets for second quarter 2019

Specialist re/insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London saw a significant increase in the use of placing platform PPL during the second quarter of 2019 with more than half of its in scope risks placed electronically. PPL board chair Bronek Masojada said the market has "genuinely adopted" e-placements and he hopes to achieve the same success in submission rates.   13 August 2019

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