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Grupo Mexicano de Seguros (GMX), the Mexican property/casualty insurer, has been upgraded by AM Best, partly because of improved underwriting practices and its reinsurance programme.   22 December 2016
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AM Best has upgraded the financial strength rating of Arab Insurance Group (Arig) to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good). The outlook of the rating has been revised to stable from positive.   22 December 2016
Insurance
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) has introduced a free online facility for its members that will help with due diligence if they choose to use unrated non-life insurers.   22 December 2016
Insurance
After a spate of big deals and with consolidation in the re/insurance industry showing little sign of slowing, Intelligent Insurer examines the different ways the success—or failure—of a merger or acquisition may be judged in its aftermath.   21 December 2016
Insurance
S&P Global Ratings has placed Switzerland-based Allied World on CreditWatch with negative implications and AM Best has placed it under review with negative implications after the global specialty and property/casualty insurer agreed to a $4.9 billion acquisition by Canada’s Fairfax.   21 December 2016
Insurance
2016 has again been a benign year in terms of large catastrophe losses, but geopolitical developments have added new challenges to the sector. Intelligent Insurer asked executives from re/insurance firms including Swiss Re, Argo, AM Best and Willis Re for their opinions on the most important developments in the re/insurance industry in 2016.   21 December 2016
Insurance
Some of the pressures the re/insurance sector faced in 2016—low interest rates, uncertainties around Brexit and a soft market—are likely to persist in 2017. But some additional drivers are set to affect the performance of the sector, as described by executives from major players such as Markel, Swiss Re and Willis Re.   21 December 2016
Insurance
Although the German motor insurance market has seen a hard cycle of rising prices since 2011, it does not expect to see a rapid return to a soft cycle, S&P Global Ratings has said in a report.   20 December 2016
Insurance
Bart Hedges, the chief executive officer of Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), a specialist property/casualty reinsurer based in the Cayman Islands, will step down at the end of March, 2017, after 11 years with the business.   19 December 2016
Insurance
In a market that is ever-more challenging for insurers, the potential for risk accumulation and unexpected correlations has never been higher, according to a new report by AM Best.   16 December 2016

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