All Interview articles – Page 6
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Viewpoints
Quick Q&A with Africa Re CEO Corneille Karekezi
Africa Re’s CEO Corneille Karekezi answers GR’s questions on Chinese investment in Africa, improving reinsurance pricing and problems faced by some regional reinsurers
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News Agenda
FAIR: Rates firming as regional reinsurers provide less capacity - AM Best
Regional reinsurers in trouble means less local capacity available, helping to firm up reinsurance pricing in African and Middle Eastern markets
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Viewpoints
Yassir Albaharna: Q&A with FAIR’s president
FAIR president Yassir Albaharna talks to GR ahead of this year’s conference in Marrakesh
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Publication
Fitch Ratings Global Reinsurance Guide 2020
Fitch Ratings has released its Global Reinsurance Guide 2020. The credit rating agency’s market report can be downloaded, free to read online, here.
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Analysis
Dorian provides the pre-Monte suspense for 2019
Hurricane Dorian provides this year’s pre-Monte Carlo jitters as re/insurance execs pack their bags for 2019’s Rendez-Vous de Septembre
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Viewpoints
Q&A: Opportunities in Africa – closing the protection gap
Africa is a $67bn insurance market but still lacks re/insurance penetration relative to the continent’s vast risk transfer potential. Q&A in association with Afro-Asian Insurance Services, speaking with the broker’s managing director, Udai Patel
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Viewpoints
Mortgage reinsurance: Q&A with Capsicum’s Rance
Steven Rance, managing partner of mortgage indemnity reinsurance at Capsicum Re, explains to GR why he feels mortgage risk transfer will continue to deliver attractive margins for reinsurers
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Viewpoints
US casualty picture “not as simple as the Monte discussions suggested”
Aon’s Amanda Nguyen talks US casualty business, suggesting while some reinsurers are lightening their exposure, for others it still represents a good diversifier for catastrophe risk-heavy books
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Viewpoints
Has the Future at Lloyd’s prospectus gone far enough for MGAs?
Charles Rowley, director, DA Strategy says promising ideas to cultivate innovative solutions at Lloyd’s have been identified in the manifesto, but asks why was one of the fastest growing segments not referred to more directly.
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Viewpoints
Opinion: TMR result puts new shine on RenRe deal
When RenaissanceRe paid 1.02x tangible book value for Tokio Millennium, it seemed it might be due to poor performance at TMR, but the reinsurer’s final set of results might change that perception
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Viewpoints
How do I know if this is the next Lemonade… or just a lemon?
Issues re/insurers should consider for insurance technology ventures, writes Drinker Biddle & Reath partner Andrea Best
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News Agenda
Greenlight diversifying amid Lloyd’s specialty scramble – CEO interview
Last year’s performance review by Lloyd’s has led to opportunities in aviation, marine and energy business, Greenlight Re’s CEO, Simon Burton, tells GR
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News Agenda
Nimble and niche – Q&A with a cyber market MGA
Ari Chatterjee is chief underwriting officer for Envelop Risk, a start-up MGA in Bermuda, using machine learning tools to price cyber risks, with underwriting capacity supplied by MS Amlin
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News Agenda
Innovation in Middle East markets – a little less conversation, a little more action
Insurers in Middle East markets talk about launching new products, but not enough innovation follows, JLT Re’s Russell Walters told GR
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Viewpoints
Collaborating on blockchain - R3 Corda
Ryan Rugg, global head of insurance for blockchain platform R3 Corda, has experience working with re/insurance sector stakeholders on blockchain projects such as Insurwave
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Viewpoints
Slipcase: Learning lessons for global expansion
Alex Hearn, founder of Slipcase, discusses global expansion plans and lessons learned running the insurance online media aggregator
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Viewpoints
Intelligent tech transforms insurance operations
Re/insurance is in the throes of a technology revolution. By Justin Davies
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Viewpoints
Q&A with Jayne Plunkett: Swiss Re’s new Silk Road
Jayne Plunkett, chief executive of reinsurance Asia at Swiss Re, tells Global Reinsurance about the reinsurer’s plans for the region
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Viewpoints
Better data: the future is here - Catex
As a software company that has three core products; Pivot Point for Brokers and MGAs; Data Vera for Binders; and Data Vera for Exposure Management, we always ask clients if they have data challenges
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Viewpoints
Beazley: How demand for cyber BI is shaping the market in Asia
Nicholas Tey, financial lines regional manager for Asia at Beazley, explains why there is a growing focus on cyber business interruption as a driver of loss for Asian businesses and how international data protection regulation is shaping the threat environment