People Moves: Tysers’ Allen to Oneglobal Bermuda; MS Amlin Promotes Wallington for Specialty Re; Kessler Named Chair of Insurance Europe’s Reinsurance Advisory Board

Allen appointed as Head of Financial Lines for Oneglobal Bermuda

Oneglobal Broking, the London-based specialist broker, announced that Christina Allen will join Oneglobal Bermuda as head of Financial Lines. Allen will report to group CEO, Mike Reynolds, and will officially join on Jan. 4, 2022.

Allen is an experienced financial lines broker who recently held the position of director at Tysers (Bermuda) Ltd. Prior to this, she was vice president at Paragon Brokers (Bermuda) Ltd.

Allen’s critical expertise adds another important discipline to the Oneglobal Bermuda team as it continues to build up specialist capability. Bermuda is a vital hub for insurance, reinsurance and the capital market needs of clients providing strategic solutions to complex challenges

Oneglobal Broking is a specialist international broking company focused on the placement of open market and delegated authority business, across marine, aviation, property, casualty and specialty lines. Owned by renowned financial services private equity firm JC Flowers, the business was founded in 2018 following the merger of the SSL and Endeavour insurance broking houses.

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MS Amlin Underwriting Promotes Wallington to Head of Specialty Reinsurance

MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd. (MS AUL), the Lloyd’s global re/insurer, announced it has promoted Rachael Wallington, currently lead class underwriter for Agriculture reinsurance, to head of Specialty Reinsurance.

She will take up the new role from Nov. 1 and report to Matthew Wilken, head of Reinsurance.

In her new role, Wallington will oversee the Specialty Reinsurance team which will include the agricultural, terror and nuclear classes of business.

Wallington joined MS Amlin in February 2015 and was integral in building the business’s agriculture portfolio. In addition to her responsibilities as lead class underwriter for Agriculture, Wallington supported a diverse range of classes including mortgage and terrorism. She has nearly two decades of experience, has worked across the major international reinsurance hubs, including Bermuda, Singapore and London, and is a fully qualified actuary.

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SCOR’s Kessler Appointed Chair of Insurance Europe’s Reinsurance Advisory Board

Insurance Europe’s Reinsurance Advisory Board (RAB) has appointed SCOR Chairman Denis Kessler, as its chair.

Kessler already held the position of RAB chair from 2009 to 2010 and takes over from Swiss Re CEO, Christian Mumenthaler, who has held the position for the last two and a half years.

The RAB aims to stimulate and maintain a stable, innovative and competitive reinsurance market environment by promoting regulatory frameworks that facilitate global risk transfer through reinsurance and other insurance-linked capital solutions.

It is represented at CEO level by seven major reinsurers: Gen Re, Hannover Re, Lloyd’s of London, Munich Re, Partner Re, Scor and Swiss Re, with Insurance Europe providing the secretariat.

Insurance Europe represents all European insurers and reinsurers.

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