credit & surety News

QBE Appoints Mann Head of Credit & Surety in North America

Insurer QBE has named Harpreet Mann as head of Global Credit & Surety for its North America division. In this role, she will develop strategy for enhancing the this book of business in North America while building relationships with prospective …

Everest Re Taps AXIS Re’s Heizmann as Head of European Credit & Surety

Everest Re Group Ltd. announced that Markus Heizmann will join Everest Reinsurance (Ireland), dac, as head of its Zurich-based credit & surety operations. He will work alongside Laurent Arnould, head of Financial Products, to further develop the worldwide trade credit …

QBE Relocates Wulff to Hong Kong, Anticipating Growth of Credit & Surety in Asia

QBE Emerging Markets – Asia Pacific announced that its group general manager of Credit & Surety, Richard Wulff, will be relocating to Hong Kong from Singapore, effective January 2016. Wulff is relocating to support the Asia Pacific teams and the …

Argo Surety, SureTec Launch Mid-Market Surety Program

Argo Surety, together with SureTec Financial Corp., is now providing expanded combined capacity for the middle market contract surety segment. Through the new program, Argo Surety and SureTec can extend up to $50 million in contract bond capacity to select …

Starr Receives Listing as Approved Surety from U.S. Treasury

Starr Companies has received approval from the United States Department of Treasury to list Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. as an approved surety. The Treasury listing enhances Starr Financial Lines’ Crime & Fidelity product offerings. With the Treasury listing, Starr …

Arch Capital Completes Acquisition of Ariel Re’s Credit & Surety Reinsurance

The Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group announced that it has officially acquired Ariel Re’s Credit & Surety reinsurance operations based in Zurich, as previously announced. The closing occurred at the same time as the acquisition by Goldman Sachs of Ariel Re’s …

Best, S&P React to Ariel Re Sale of Bermuda, Zurich Units

Both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor’s issued bulletins following the announcement that Ariel Re was selling off its Bermuda-based reinsurance business to Arrow, a unit of investment Bank Goldman Sachs, and its trade credit and surety (C&S) operations, which …