Ferma Forum 2024
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Association News
Eiopa keeping close eye on increasingly complex captives
Despite likely new rules around proportionality under Solvency II, growing placement of cyber risk in captives and wider use of…
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Market
Minimal short-term impact in Europe from nat cat losses
Large storm and hurricane losses in 2024 are not expected to have a significant impact on the European property insurance…
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CRE Insurance
Pool Re to put systemic cyber pool proposal to UK government
Pool Re is to present proposals for a systemic cyber insurance pool to the new UK government in the next…
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ESG
Mapfre backs away from mining firms with poor ESG records
Leading European insurer Mapfre said on the opening day of the Ferma Forum that it will not sell insurance to…
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Cyber & Technology
European cyber market to stabilise in 2025
The European cyber market continues to soften, with many corporates benefiting from higher limits and broader coverage, but as claims…
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Insurance
Buyer concern mounts over uninsurable risk as cover recedes
There is growing concern among insurance buyers that risks will become uninsurable as they report deterioration in cover for many…
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Insurance
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions sees growing demand for innovative solutions
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions expects continued growth in its alternative risk transfer business as risk managers seek solutions to increasingly…
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Cyber & Technology
Market must simplify cyber wordings to reach SMEs: Beazley
The insurance market needs to simplify the process to underwrite cyber insurance for small and medium companies in order to…
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Legal & Regulation
Regulatory overload firmly on Ferma’s lobbying agenda
Ferma is urging the EU to simplify its regulatory and reporting requirements amid fears that members are facing overload, while…
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Association News
Big wheel keeps on turning
Ben Norris spoke with Ferma’s president Charlotte Hedemark and CEO Typhaine Beaupérin about what the federation has been up to…
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Market
Insurers must innovate or see business shrink in softening market
A leading broker has urged insurers to refocus on innovation and better solutions as the market begins to soften, or…
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Association News
Fifty years of progress
I first encountered Ferma when Hugh Loader was president, shortly before handing over to Maurizio Castelli. I attended one of…
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Association News
Hedemark urges members to join risk revolution at record forum
Ferma president Charlotte Hedemark has called on risk and insurance managers across Europe to join her in the risk revolution…
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Association News
Ferma writes to Von der Leyen calling for EC CRO role
Ferma has written to EC president Ursula von der Leyen calling for her to create an executive, or chief, risk…
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CRE Associations
Most EU captives will benefit from Solvency II changes, says Ferma
The majority of EU-domiciled captives should fall under new criteria that will benefit them and their parent companies from greater…
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CRE Associations
Ferma prepares members for new era of risk at Madrid Forum
European risk management body Ferma will host one of its largest-ever events next week, welcoming more than 2,500 delegates to…