European cedants should use the softening reinsurance market to improve catastrophe protection rather than simply negotiate ...

Insurance regulators worldwide are tightening rules for asset-intensive reinsurance (AIR) – so-called “funded reinsurance” – ...

Estimates from McKinsey suggests data centres will require $6.7 trillion worldwide to keep pace with the demand for computer power by 2030. Data centres equipped to handle AI processing loads are ...

Secondary perils are no longer sitting at the edge of European catastrophe portfolios. Flood, hail and severe storms are ...

That’s the view of Jennifer Braney, head of international cyber at Gallagher Re, who argues that the market needs “more ...

The range of expectations separating buyers, brokers and reinsurers has narrowed considerably since Monte Carlo, setting up a ...

Isaias was the ninth named storm in the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season but the first to reach hurricane strength, making it the latest first hurricane of a season on record. Insured loss estimates ...

As catastrophe rates come under pressure, buyers and reinsurers are set to diverge over how recent performance, programme ...

Reinsurers will need to offer more than competitive pricing to stand out at the January 1 2027 renewals, as excess capacity and a relatively benign catastrophe environment continue to put pressure on ...

Yet even in a well-capitalised market, shock losses are being watched most closely, as a single large event, or clusters of ...

Growing risk concentration and interconnected supply chains are making losses harder to contain and faster to spread, says ...

Mapfre Re is folding its arms at brokers pushing for lower attachment points when it comes to aggregate covers for higher ...