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AM Best affirms “Good” credit rating of Swiss captive Sigurd
15 August 2023
Reporter Frances Jones

Sigurd is a Swiss-based captive reinsurer of Saipem — a key part of the group’s risk management framework

Brokerslink launches new RMP
28 April 2023
Reporter Frances Jones

Global broker Brokerslink has launched a new Risk Management Practice (RMP) to provide its partners and affiliates with access to its single-access specialist consultancy service

Swiss Re partners with Benekiva for claims management solution
26 April 2023
Reporter Frances Jones

Swiss Re Reinsurance and Iowa-based insurtech Benekiva have formed a partnership to develop an integrated claims management platform

Zurich exits the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
06 April 2023
Reporter Jenna Lomax

Global insurance company Zurich has exited the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, one week on from Munich Re’s departure

Sompo International granted FINMA licence to write primary insurance
04 April 2023
Reporter Jenna Lomax

Property and casualty (re)insurance firm Sompo International has been granted a Swiss insurance branch licence from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

Zurich appoints Emma Sansom as global head of captives
14 November 2022
Reporter Lyndsey Young

Zurich Insurance has appointed Emma Sansom as global head of captives. Sansom has been with the company for 20 years and succeeds Paul Wöhrmann in the role

AM Best affirms credit ratings of Kot Insurance Company AG
11 November 2022
Reporter Lyndsey Young

AM Best has affirmed the financial (FSR) of B++ (Good) and the long-term issuer credit rating (long-term ICR) of “bbb+” (Good) of Kot Insurance Company AG (Kot) (Switzerland)

Swiss Re closes stop-loss transaction for underwriting risks
14 April 2022
Reporter Rebecca Delaney

Swiss Re has closed a multi-year stop-loss transaction with J.P. Morgan and other institutional investors to cover underwriting risks across the entire Swiss Re Group, in an innovative combination of bank financing and insurance-linked securities

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