Journals
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Product recall market steady and stable for now
Product recalls take place all the time, on everything from cars to foodstuffs, but in terms of major insurance losses,…
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D&O: Good for now, trouble on the horizon?
The D&O insurance market is improving for risk managers after a period of turmoil, with capacity expanding, competition in the…
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Commercial insurance entering the digital age
It’s fair to say digitalisation for commercial insurance has been lagging behind the personal lines sector. Part of this is…
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Trouble ahead for trade credit insurance
The last couple of years have seen a remarkably benign claims environment for trade credit insurance globally. But the outlook…
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Renewals: better times ahead?
Primary renewals have been tough in the last few years, with the hard market seeing prices increase dramatically in many…
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Growing nat cat risk in Asia
Natural catastrophes are on the increase around the world and the Asia-Pacific region is no exception in facing increased climate…
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Parima Conference returns as in-person event in Singapore
The Pan-Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association (Parima) is holding its annual conference in-person in Singapore on 7-10 November, after…
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China: Competitive market opening up
The Chinese property/casualty market is highly competitive and pricing remains flat in most lines, apart from the inevitable cyber and…
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Parametric potential but work still to do
Growing natural catastrophe risks have seen the (re)insurance market harden for such threats and this has led to increased interest…
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Captive potential growing in Asia-Pacific
Captive enquiries are increasing in Asia-Pacific, and existing captives are broadening the range of covers they provide. The main domiciles,…
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Hard market in India but liberalisation continues
The Indian insurance market is facing similar issues to other global insurance markets, with rates still hardening and terms and…
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Governments strengthening cyber defences
The UK and French governments, and the EU, are ramping up their efforts to upgrade cyber resilience within businesses, not…
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Insurance market hardening to moderate further at year-end
European risk managers will continue to face a hardening commercial insurance market at year-end renewals but price rises look set…
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Ferma’s president says pan-European vehicle for systemic risks not dead
Dirk Wegener, president of Ferma and global head of corporate insurance at Deutsche Bank, has told Commercial Risk Europe that…
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Marsh urges buyers to prepare for net-zero underwriting
Risk managers need to prepare for net-zero underwriting that is likely to influence pricing, terms and conditions in the next…
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Hardening reinsurance market set to prolong primary buyers’ pain
Heavy losses, inflation and rapidly rising interest rates are combining to drive reinsurance market hardening, particularly for nat cat risks,…
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Battle lines drawn over mandatory security for ELD
The European Commission is forging ahead with its proposed revision of the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) to give the regime…
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Ferma urges OECD to exclude captives from BEPS tax guidelines
Ferma has urged the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to amend its coming technical guidelines designed to tackle…
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Nordic risk managers vent frustration at insurers’ retreat
September was a pivotal time for Nordic risk managers as their associations were able to hold their first in-person events…
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Risk and reward in the energy transition
Commercial Risk Europe talks to Charlotte Hedemark Hancke, Ferma vice-president, leading Darim member and senior risk manager in customer success…