EIOPA oversight 2025 report documents 10 country visits, 33 college engagements, tightened group supervision guidance and the first-ever DORA digital resilience oversight cycle.
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APRA governance reform enters its final phase: draft CPS 510 consults until August 2026, FAR changes affect 4,500 accountable people by 2028.
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US cyber insurance market splits into surplus-lines and admitted sub-markets as the industry loss ratio hits 53.0% and pricing falls for eight straight quarters.
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Lemonade Hannover Re financing: Hannover Re's $250m growth facility replaces General Catalyst as Lemonade approaches EBITDA breakeven in 2027.
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Protected Cell Company framework for Singapore: MAS to consult on PCC structure after 28 cat bonds and US$4.4bn issued since 2017 — what it means for ILS, captives and sidecars in Asia.
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Third-party litigation funding is now illegal in North Carolina. HB 315, signed June 22, 2026, makes NC the first US state to ban TPLF outright.
Read storyLloyd's India play completes: ICICI Lombard fronts local policies for managing agents as FDI hits 100% — the dual-market architecture explained.
Aviva Syndicates replaces the Probitas 1492 brand at Lloyd's by September 2026, after four straight years of sub-80% combined ratios and a…
IRB Brasil closes UK run-off with a Part VII transfer sanctioned 16 June 2026, ending a London casualty book in run-off since…
Aegon New York headquarters set to open mid-2027. Will Fuller takes President & COO role Jan 2027. Redomiciliation as Transamerica Inc. completed…
ANV Open Lending acquisition: ANV Group Holdings offers $3.15/share all-cash to take NASDAQ-listed LPRO private at a 78% premium to its 90-day…
Allianz is in advanced talks to acquire Portugal's Caravela Seguros at ~€150M, its third Southern European bolt-on in three years, as the…
Admiral Group acquires Flock for £80m on June 1, 2026 — a telematics-first commercial fleet insurtech that cut crash frequency 10% —…
Howard Hughes Holdings closes $2.1B Vantage Group acquisition at 1.5x book value — with Pershing Square managing Vantage's assets fee-free, the deal…
PayPay Corp acquires 70.2% of T&D Financial Life for ¥134.34B — converting Japan's 74-million-user payment platform into a life insurance distribution engine…
Wellington Management acquires Hartford Funds for $1.9B NPV — converting a 48-year sub-advisory relationship into full ownership of a $160B retail wealth…
MassMutual and Nationwide announced a $16 billion fixed universal life reinsurance agreement covering 30,000+ policyholders, with Q2 2026 closing expected and Barings…
MNRB Berhad's RM400.49M proposal to fully acquire Labuan Re targets a top-five Asia reinsurer ranking, leveraging Labuan IBFC's offshore platform for international…
VIG Re names Wilfrid Goh Chief Representative APAC as it opens a Singapore office under VIGRe28, backed by EUR 995.6m GWP and…
Aegon New York headquarters set to open mid-2027. Will Fuller takes President & COO role Jan 2027. Redomiciliation as Transamerica Inc. completed…
Willis Re appoints Jim Summers as CEO Global Specialties; Arch Insurance International names Kendra Felisky as UK Chair after nine years under…
Saudi Re appoints ex-Swiss Re VP Ruchi Jain as Principal Officer of its GIFT City IIO. GIFT City reinsurance GWP surged to…
Lloyd's launches a May–July 2026 market consultation on skills, culture and talent — replacing the 11-year Dive In Festival with embedded retention…
Aon EMEA leadership rotates on June 1, 2026: Buechter and Kus take over from Page and Kielty as new co-CEOs, with Q1…
Gallagher Re cyber APAC hire: Carlos Grijalva from WTW named APAC cyber head as the $8.36B market grows 27% annually and Gallagher's…
WTW returns to court against Howden over a five-person mega-yacht team lift-out as five global brokers test US covenants and the UK…
Munich Re Retakaful 2026 gets a new CEO: Kevin Rethual takes over June 1 as Islamic finance assets surpass $3.88 trillion and…
Berkshire Hathaway names Gen Re Chair Charlie Shamieh as Ajit Jain's successor, signaling disciplined underwriting in a capital-rich reinsurance market with a…
Swiss Re creates a dedicated Head of L&H Transactions role, naming Goldman Sachs and Phoenix Group veteran Dean Galligan—signaling intent to compete…
AXA CEO Thomas Buberl wins a four-year mandate through 2030 confirmed at the April 30 AGM, locking in the Unlock the Future…
US cyber insurance market splits into surplus-lines and admitted sub-markets as the industry loss ratio hits 53.0% and pricing falls for eight…
Lemonade Hannover Re financing: Hannover Re's $250m growth facility replaces General Catalyst as Lemonade approaches EBITDA breakeven in 2027.
Third-party litigation funding is now illegal in North Carolina. HB 315, signed June 22, 2026, makes NC the first US state to…
NAIC confirmed a June 11 Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day intrusion by ShinyHunters — filing systems survived, but rating feeds and investment designations were…
Post-quantum cyber risk is now US policy: two White House executive orders signed June 22 set 2030-2031 migration deadlines for federal systems…
NAIC AI Model Bulletin now covers over half of US states. EO 14365 tasks a DOJ task force with challenging those laws.…
Climate physical risk now carries a $41.4 trillion price tag by 2050, per Moody's. North America's protection gap is structurally widening —…
Florida Citizens secured a $2.82bn 2026 reinsurance tower at ~30% lower pricing as depopulation cuts exposure 67% and the cat market softens.
US P&C underwriting profit hit $16.3B in Q1 2026, but strip the $10.9B reserve release and the accident-year CR is 96.6 —…
Everest's $600M Annapurna Re casualty sidecar, anchored by Stone Point and backed by Mubadala, extends the Mt. Logan model into long-tail reinsurance.
Aegon New York headquarters set to open mid-2027. Will Fuller takes President & COO role Jan 2027. Redomiciliation as Transamerica Inc. completed…
ANV Open Lending acquisition: ANV Group Holdings offers $3.15/share all-cash to take NASDAQ-listed LPRO private at a 78% premium to its 90-day…
EIOPA oversight 2025 report documents 10 country visits, 33 college engagements, tightened group supervision guidance and the first-ever DORA digital resilience oversight…
EIOPA Financial Stability Report June 2026 confirms record SCR ratios but warns on liquidity gaps, private credit concentration and EUR 5.8bn Middle…
Carbon credit insurance is replicating the renewable-energy finance arc. Here is what the 2025 Chestnut/Marsh/CFC template means for the VCM in 2026.
UK salary sacrifice pension cap from April 2029 will prompt 2.8 million workers to reduce DC saving, squeezing group pension volumes and…
Aviva Syndicates replaces the Probitas 1492 brand at Lloyd's by September 2026, after four straight years of sub-80% combined ratios and a…
Insurance-linked securities hit a record $136bn in alternative capital at the April 2026 renewal. Swiss Re, which has structured over $50bn in…
DB pension surplus release rules — April 2027 target — let UK schemes extract capital on a low-dependency test, creating a direct…
UK bulk purchase annuity market hit a record 367 deals in 2025, yet volume fell to £38.2bn as competition drove insurers into…
Aegon New York headquarters set to open mid-2027. Will Fuller takes President & COO role Jan 2027. Redomiciliation as Transamerica Inc. completed…
Solvency II turns ten with EU insurers posting solid SCR ratios, but EIOPA's 2025 Annual Report flags hundreds of billions in private…
OECD 2026 economic outlook bifurcates global GDP at 2.8% vs 2.1%. We translate the OECD's Middle East scenarios into an insurer stress…
UK captive insurance regime launches by mid-2027 as the PRA targets ~500 offshore captives with proportionate Solvency UK rules and no tax…
APRA governance reform enters its final phase: draft CPS 510 consults until August 2026, FAR changes affect 4,500 accountable people by 2028.
IRDAI Policyholders Protection Fund launches with Rs 800 crore corpus on June 30, 2026 — here is what every insurer operating in…
Japan's FSA data for FY2025 shows life net income at ¥2.54 trillion as single-premium savings surge, while Sompo, MS&AD and Tokio Marine…
UK salary sacrifice pension cap from April 2029 will prompt 2.8 million workers to reduce DC saving, squeezing group pension volumes and…
Japan's 2025 census confirms a 2.5% population drop — the steepest on record — as J-ICS forces longevity risk onto life insurer…
DB pension surplus release rules — April 2027 target — let UK schemes extract capital on a low-dependency test, creating a direct…
UK bulk purchase annuity market hit a record 367 deals in 2025, yet volume fell to £38.2bn as competition drove insurers into…
Aegon New York headquarters set to open mid-2027. Will Fuller takes President & COO role Jan 2027. Redomiciliation as Transamerica Inc. completed…
Microinsurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Turaco ASA LifeCare enrolls 500,000 policies in four months; insured borrowers 60% less likely to default on loans.
Geopolitical risk governance: APRA's June 2026 letter sets six board-accountable minimum expectations for insurers, banks and super funds — anchored to CPS…
Solvency II turns ten with EU insurers posting solid SCR ratios, but EIOPA's 2025 Annual Report flags hundreds of billions in private…
EIOPA enforcement reached its terminal stage on 9 June 2026 as Bulgaria's FSC withdrew DallBogg's insurance licence — the first full-sequence test…
Lemonade Hannover Re financing: Hannover Re's $250m growth facility replaces General Catalyst as Lemonade approaches EBITDA breakeven in 2027.
Third-party litigation funding is now illegal in North Carolina. HB 315, signed June 22, 2026, makes NC the first US state to…
EIOPA Financial Stability Report June 2026 confirms record SCR ratios but warns on liquidity gaps, private credit concentration and EUR 5.8bn Middle…
NAIC confirmed a June 11 Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day intrusion by ShinyHunters — filing systems survived, but rating feeds and investment designations were…
Climate physical risk now carries a $41.4 trillion price tag by 2050, per Moody's. North America's protection gap is structurally widening —…
Florida Citizens secured a $2.82bn 2026 reinsurance tower at ~30% lower pricing as depopulation cuts exposure 67% and the cat market softens.
US P&C underwriting profit hit $16.3B in Q1 2026, but strip the $10.9B reserve release and the accident-year CR is 96.6 —…
Geopolitical risk governance: APRA's June 2026 letter sets six board-accountable minimum expectations for insurers, banks and super funds — anchored to CPS…
Solvency II turns ten with EU insurers posting solid SCR ratios, but EIOPA's 2025 Annual Report flags hundreds of billions in private…
Data centre insurance risk has outpaced P&C capacity, AM Best warns. AI data centres introduce fire, cooling, silent cyber, and supply-chain BI…
Fitch Ratings flags Florida's reformed insurance market as better positioned for the 2026 hurricane season — but warns that reform resilience remains…
Descartes Underwriting and Nextpower launch the first parametric straight-line wind solution for solar farms, with limits up to $100M and on-site sensor…
Lemonade Hannover Re financing: Hannover Re's $250m growth facility replaces General Catalyst as Lemonade approaches EBITDA breakeven in 2027.
Microinsurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Turaco ASA LifeCare enrolls 500,000 policies in four months; insured borrowers 60% less likely to default on loans.
Sixfold's AI Underwriter — the autonomous underwriting agent its $30M Series B was raised to build — is now in production at…
Descartes Underwriting and Nextpower launch the first parametric straight-line wind solution for solar farms, with limits up to $100M and on-site sensor…
Tokenized reinsurance reaches the live market: SurancePlus issues three Solana-native HCI Re 2026 securities with a $5,000 minimum, targeting up to $12M…
ICEYE closes €450M primary Series F led by General Atlantic at €10bn+ valuation, funding scale to 100 SAR satellites/year by 2028 to…
3IF Ventures closes $12m first round — anchored by FSD Africa ($6m), Swiss Re Foundation ($5m) and Zep Re — to fund…
Admiral Group acquires Flock for £80m on June 1, 2026 — a telematics-first commercial fleet insurtech that cut crash frequency 10% —…
Nigeria's NAICOM grants first insurtech licence, confirming NIIRA 2025 operational and opening Africa's largest market at 0.5% GDP penetration to digital operators.
AI insurtech funding Q1 2026: 95.2% of $1.63B went to AI platforms across 68 deals, with AI liability insurance emerging as a…
Sixfold on Azure Marketplace turns cloud procurement into a shortcut for mid-market carriers, compressing AI underwriting deployment from months to weeks.
Corgi Insurance's $160M Series B at $1.3B valuation — 4 months after Series A — is backed by $40M ARR from a…
US cyber insurance market splits into surplus-lines and admitted sub-markets as the industry loss ratio hits 53.0% and pricing falls for eight…
Lemonade Hannover Re financing: Hannover Re's $250m growth facility replaces General Catalyst as Lemonade approaches EBITDA breakeven in 2027.
Protected Cell Company framework for Singapore: MAS to consult on PCC structure after 28 cat bonds and US$4.4bn issued since 2017 —…
Carbon credit insurance is replicating the renewable-energy finance arc. Here is what the 2025 Chestnut/Marsh/CFC template means for the VCM in 2026.
Japan's 2025 census confirms a 2.5% population drop — the steepest on record — as J-ICS forces longevity risk onto life insurer…
Climate physical risk now carries a $41.4 trillion price tag by 2050, per Moody's. North America's protection gap is structurally widening —…
Insurance-linked securities hit a record $136bn in alternative capital at the April 2026 renewal. Swiss Re, which has structured over $50bn in…
Mexico parametric earthquake insurance: Liberty Mutual Re and Safehub deploy MXN 5bn sensor-based cover with PSA polygon triggers and dual volcanic mechanism…
UK bulk purchase annuity market hit a record 367 deals in 2025, yet volume fell to £38.2bn as competition drove insurers into…
Everest's $600M Annapurna Re casualty sidecar, anchored by Stone Point and backed by Mubadala, extends the Mt. Logan model into long-tail reinsurance.
Microinsurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Turaco ASA LifeCare enrolls 500,000 policies in four months; insured borrowers 60% less likely to default on loans.
Data centre insurance risk has outpaced P&C capacity, AM Best warns. AI data centres introduce fire, cooling, silent cyber, and supply-chain BI…
EIOPA oversight 2025 report documents 10 country visits, 33 college engagements, tightened group supervision guidance and the first-ever DORA digital resilience oversight…
APRA governance reform enters its final phase: draft CPS 510 consults until August 2026, FAR changes affect 4,500 accountable people by 2028.
Third-party litigation funding is now illegal in North Carolina. HB 315, signed June 22, 2026, makes NC the first US state to…
IRDAI Policyholders Protection Fund launches with Rs 800 crore corpus on June 30, 2026 — here is what every insurer operating in…
EIOPA Financial Stability Report June 2026 confirms record SCR ratios but warns on liquidity gaps, private credit concentration and EUR 5.8bn Middle…
Japan's FSA data for FY2025 shows life net income at ¥2.54 trillion as single-premium savings surge, while Sompo, MS&AD and Tokio Marine…
NAIC confirmed a June 11 Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day intrusion by ShinyHunters — filing systems survived, but rating feeds and investment designations were…
Post-quantum cyber risk is now US policy: two White House executive orders signed June 22 set 2030-2031 migration deadlines for federal systems…
UK salary sacrifice pension cap from April 2029 will prompt 2.8 million workers to reduce DC saving, squeezing group pension volumes and…
NAIC AI Model Bulletin now covers over half of US states. EO 14365 tasks a DOJ task force with challenging those laws.…
DB pension surplus release rules — April 2027 target — let UK schemes extract capital on a low-dependency test, creating a direct…
Florida Citizens secured a $2.82bn 2026 reinsurance tower at ~30% lower pricing as depopulation cuts exposure 67% and the cat market softens.
