Willis Towers Watson has appointed Alexander van Kuffeler as regional leader of financial institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with immediate effect...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has finally banned captives from being members of the Federal Home Loan Bank system, despite widespread hostility to the move...

Roundstone Management is moving its headquarters from Westlake to Lakewood in Ohio in July, subject to paperwork...

The South Carolina Insurance Department licensed 30 new captives in 2015, according to JLT Towner...

Bulk annuity and longevity-hedging markets saw a quiet 2015 compared to the previous year, but appetite from both pension schemes and insurers picked up significantly towards Q4, according to Willis Towers Watson...

Vermont licensed 33 new captive insurance companies in 2015, according to the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation...

A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength and issuer credit ratings of Cedar Court Indemnity Company...

JLT Specialty USA has appointed Brad Kotlewski as senior vice president. He will join the financial lines group as the US private equity product leader...

The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance has approved a captive insurer formed by the Deborah Heart and Lung Center of Browns Mills...

Estimates suggest that total economic losses from weather events during December will exceed $4 billion, with insurance losses likely to reach or exceed $2 billion, according to Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting monthly report...

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has raised its corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Willis Towers Watson from “BBB-” to “BBB”...

Overall capital levels dedicated to reinsurance have stabilised, showing no growth for the first time in several years, according to Guy Carpenter’s 2016 global January renewal report...