Stuart Collins
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CRE Insurance
Trade Secrets Directive prompts review of procedures
The EU is close to approving its first pan-European rules covering trade secrets. The move will have implications for whistleblowers…
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Benelux
Corporate roundup
XL Catlin hires ex-AIG man Gouraud to head client and broker management, Chubb names Luc Reuter head of surety for…
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CRE Insurance
Employers lagging on health programmes but promise to up game: Willis Towers Watson
Only 38% of employees participated in any wellbeing activity or health-related management programme during the last year, according to recent…
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Africa
Kenya’s new laws to build a reputable financial sector
Kenya’s financial sector is to face stricter regulations as part of improving its overall reputation and attractiveness to local and…
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Africa
Small Kenya banks crisis
Three commercial banks in Kenya have been put under statutory management in the past six months, triggering panic among customers…
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Africa
Energy sector risk managers must not cut back on mitigation measures, brokers warn
Insurers may choose to quit the energy market as an oversupply of capital and falling demand heaps on the pressure,…
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Africa
Government, underwriters run to the rescue of farmers
Kenya has entered into its first public-private partnership in insurance following the launch of a joint programme aimed at protecting…
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Africa
How the value of insurance is shaping the Kenyan industry
Commercial Risk Africa has been conducting its annual survey of risk managers and the insurance market across Sub Saharan Africa.…
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Africa
Macroeconomic uncertainty, criminality and regulation dominate the Africa bank risk environment
The past decade has seen enormous change for the financial services sector as a whole, and for banking in particular.
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Africa
No picnic for Africa as big guns reassess exposure to continent
Financial services firms rethink Africa exposure as pedestrian growth and regulatory pressures bite.
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CRE Insurance
Risk management concerns leave Brazil off the pace in run-up to Rio 2016
Political turmoil, civil unrest, terrorist threat and outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil are placing organisers of the 2016…
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CRE Insurance
Revolutionary forces at play in risk transfer industry
Is the risk transfer industry on the edge of a revolution? This was a key question posed at the European…
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CRE Insurance
End of the sub-100% combined ratio?
CRE takes a look at the recent benign claims environment and asks: Is it masking underlying financial problems at insurers…
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CRE Insurance
Munich Re and Beazley launch cyber cover for large corps
Corporate Insurance Partner, the industrial risks unit of Munich Re, has joined forces with Lloyd's insurer Beazley to provide cyber…
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Captives
BI top cyber risk concern reveals Aon captive survey
Business interruption caused by data breach is the top cyber risk concern for businesses across all industries, according to Aon's…
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CRE Insurance
Cat In A Box app from RMS aimed at corporates
An app that simplifies the design of parametric insurance-linked contracts will broaden their use among corporations whose operations are exposed…
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CRE Insurance
Rising terror threat largely underinsured
Attacks in Brussels, Lahore and Turkey in the past two weeks highlight the growing human and financial cost of terrorism…
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Asia
Tianjin loss uncertain and climbing: Swiss Re
The explosions at the Chinese port city of Tianjin proved the most challenging and costly event for the insurance industry…
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Asia
Business exposed as India and China top list of disaster prone countries
Asian countries are among the most exposed and least resilient to natural disasters in the world, but as a result…
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CRE Insurance
Brussels attack could see cover tighten for European cities
This week's fatal suicide bombings in Brussels do not represent a significant increase in terrorism risk for business, but they…