The Isle of Man Financial Services Authority (FSA) is reviewing its proposed capital and solvency framework for captive insurers for proportionality and competitiveness, after the UK consulted on a tailored captive regime of its own.
Micronesia’s captive industry has generated about US$338 million in corporate income tax, MRA reports, as President Simina courts Japanese captive owners in Tokyo.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is changing the capital gains rules for non-resident close companies so that the 25 per cent participator test can apply to an individual cell of a protected cell company (PCC), as well as to the PCC as a whole.
Undergraduate students have until 12 November to submit entries to the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA) 2026-2027 Student Essay Contest.
53 per cent of insurers plan to increase their use of captive onshore reinsurance over the next 12 months, according to BlackRock’s 2026 Global Insurance Report.
ORA Holdings, the London-based specialist reinsurance managing general agency, selects the (Re)Insurance Operating System from INTX Insurance Software to support its treaty and facultative reinsurance operations across its global markets.
Lockton Re, the reinsurance business of Lockton, appoints Jeremy England Lee to the newly created role of chairman, Lockton Re Bermuda.
As Pinnacle Actuarial Resources opens a Canadian subsidiary and expands its presence in Bermuda, Robert Walling, principal and consulting actuary at the firm, sits down with Elliot Hayes to discuss Alberta’s rise, Bermudian innovation and why the firm intends to skate where the puck is going.
Christopher Reilly, chief growth officer at North American Risk Services, speaks with Elliot Hayes about the third-party administrator’s evolving role as guardian of a captive’s capital, from reserve accuracy to litigation discipline.
As the commercial market softens but casualty lines stay hard, the conditions that sell captives can draw in owners forming them for the wrong reasons. Luke Renz of Captives.Insure speaks with Elliot Hayes about telling a captive that should exist from one built simply to escape a bad renewal.
Elliot Hayes sits down with Michelle Bradley and Enoch Starnes of SIGMA Actuarial Consulting Group on how to price and reserve for emerging risks like cyber and AI, which are moving into captives before a credible loss history exists.
Michael Carey, senior audit manager at RH CPAs, on what House Bill 315 means for insurers and the captives carrying long-tail risk, as North Carolina becomes the first US state to ban third-party litigation investment.
As multi-unit property owners increasingly retain renters insurance risk themselves, Giles Hobday of USA Risk Group and Matt Baldwin of Swain & Baldwin Insurance discuss the growing interest in renters captives and the profitability these programmes can generate.
The captive conversation has moved on from whether to form one to how best to structure it. Dr Wong Wan Zhen, Executive Director cum Principal Officer at BBS Trust International Limited, makes the case for Labuan’s protected cell company framework as the logical next step in captive design.
Christine Brown, deputy commissioner of captive insurance at the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation, speaks with John Savage about where a cell ends and a captive begins, as Vermont's cell regime increasingly mirrors the standard for standalone captives.
Christine Brown, deputy commissioner of captive insurance at the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation, speaks with John Savage about where a cell ends and a captive begins, as Vermont's cell regime increasingly mirrors the standard for standalone captives.
Two decades on from pioneering its protected cell regime, Malta is repositioning itself as a substance-rich bridge between the UK and the EU. Ian-Edward Stafrace of Atlas Insurance PCC and Karl De Giovanni of SRS Europe weigh in on a more sophisticated owner base, the rise of affinity and embedded insurance, and the operational squeeze of growing complexity.
Paul Shimomoto, president and director, Hawaii Captive Insurance Council, looks at why the domicile is the perfect home for captive insurers
