March 19, 2024
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Gallagher Re and Hannover Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Gallagher Re Names Flasinski as CEO of N. America, Succeeding Bradshaw Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re announced the …
March 19, 2024
The names Isha, Babet, and Henk will all be familiar to Britons, but not because they belong to people — they are some of the most destructive storms that have swept through the UK in the past year. In an …
March 19, 2024
A panel of lawmakers in the European Parliament on Tuesday backed a draft law requiring large companies in the bloc to check if their supply chains use forced labor or cause environmental damage. The rules, known as the Corporate Sustainability …
March 19, 2024
Central bankers said on Tuesday they have broken new ground by using artificial intelligence to collect data for assessing climate-related financial risks, just as the volume of disclosures from banks and other companies is set to rise. The Bank for …
March 19, 2024
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from its focus on reflating growth with decades of massive monetary stimulus. While the …
March 19, 2024
China Evergrande Group’s alleged $78 billion revenue overstatement escalates the legal peril of founder Hui Ka Yan, who now stands at the center of one of the biggest financial fraud cases in history. The nation’s top securities regulator said the …
March 18, 2024
Chubb announced the launch of a global transactional risk platform to provide transactional risk liability insurance products across international markets. Chubb has appointed Josh Cowen as senior vice president, International Transactional Risk, to lead this initiative from London. Cowen, a …
March 18, 2024
Agile Underwriting Services has received “in-principle” approval from Lloyd’s to create Agile Syndicate 2427, subject to regulatory approvals. Syndicate 2427 will be established under the “syndicate-in-a-box” (SIAB) framework and be managed by Asta through its third-party managing agency platform at …
March 18, 2024
Hyundai Motor Co. and sister company Kia Corp. will recall about 170,000 electric vehicles (EVs) in South Korea over problems with software in the charging systems, South Korea’s transport ministry said on Thursday. Hyundai will recall 113,916 EVs in the …
March 18, 2024
The Indian navy said late Saturday that it had taken control of a bulk carrier hijacked by Somali pirates and evacuated the 17 crew members on the vessel. In a statement on X, the navy said all 35 pirates on …