The ILS Second Quarter 2014 Update by Aon Benfield Securities has revealed that 12 catastrophe bonds closed during the period with a total value of $4.5 billion—the most of any quarter in the history of the ILS market...

The latest symposium hosted by the Connecticut Captive Insurance Association (CCIA) is to take place in Stamford, Connecticut on 17 September 2014...

North Carolina is taking steps to improve its captive insurance legislation...

Captive insurance firm Capstone Associated has appointed Melinda Genitempo as senior vice president...

Evergreen USA Risk Retention Group (RRG) has decided to stop renewing existing policies effective 15 July 2014...

Guy Carpenter & Company (GC), have found that market pressures at 1 July renewals continued to drive price decreases across virtually all geographies and lines of business, many in the double digit range...

The choice of domicile for Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) transactions was among the topics discussed by leading industry players at a Guernsey Finance-hosted event in Zurich...

Xchanging has acquired of all the European operations from the US-headquartered insurance software business, Agencyport Software (Agencyport Europe), for a cash consideration of £64.1 million...

A.M. Best has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "a" of the key life insurance entities of Voya Financial...

An outbreak of severe thunderstorms affected Western and Central Europe during the first half of the month, with overall economic losses across Central Europe alone listed in excess of €2 billion...

GC Securities has facilitated the placement of Series 2014-1 Notes, with notional principal at $400 million, through a newly formed catastrophe bond shelf programme, Alamo Re...

Benjamin Harris is join Utah’s Captive Insurance Division of as an audit manager...