The robust development of insurance in Asia, coupled with good economic growth, has attracted global investor interest in the region, according to a report by Fitch Ratings...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) has licensed a total of 46 international insurance entities during the first half of 2013...

The International Underwriting Association (IUA) has established a new London market political risk committee...

A recent ruling by a US district court in Texas flashed a yellow caution signal to certain segments of the captive insurance industry...

GC Securities has completed the placement of the series 2013-1 notes—with notional principal at $200,000,000—through a new catastrophe bond shelf programme...

A.M. Best has placed the financial strength rating of “A- (Excellent)” and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Bermuda-based S.A.C. Re under review with negative implications...

According to Marsh’s latest global insurance quarterly briefing, insurance rates in most major regions declined modestly in Q2 of 2013...

The Cayman Islands captive insurance industry has amassed $13.5 billion in total premiums and $82.8 billion in total assets, its highest ever-recorded figures...

XL Group and Stone Point Capital have formed a new company to act as an investment manager in insurance-linked securities...

According to the Bermuda Monetary Authority, 34 new insurers have registered in Bermuda during the first half of 2013...

Guy Carpenter & Company has acquired disability reinsurance risk manager and consultant, Smith Group, based in South Portland, Maine...

Reputational risk is the most challenging category of risk to manage, according to a new study from ACE Group conducted across 15 countries within its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region...