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Cyber Re/Insurance MGA, Envelop Risk, Announces $130 Million Series B Financing

Envelop Risk, the UK-based cyber re/insurance managing general agent, announced a Series B investment of $130 million, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The financing will facilitate Envelop Risk’s plans to expand its proprietary machine-learning and data-driven underwriting activity in …

Writing Cyber Is Key to Survival, Munich Re Exec Says

Trumpeting a message that he conceded might be different from peers, Stefan Golling, a member of Munich Re Board of Management, said that Munich Re remains bullish on the cyber insurance and reinsurance markets. In fact, “if insurers and reinsurers …

People Moves: AXA XL’s Coletti Heads Swiss Re’s New Cyber U/W Team; Zurich Promotes Mantero to Chief Strategy Officer; Everest Names Citigroup’s Modin Pres., Mt. Logan Re

This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at Swiss Re, Zurich Insurance and Everest Re Group subsidiary, Mt. Logan Re. A summary of these new hires follows. AXA XL’s Coletti Joins Swiss Re as Head of New Central Cyber …

Ransomware Has Been a ‘Game Changer’ for Cyber Insurance

Anyone who works in cyber insurance knows that the industry is never static. It’s a constantly evolving business as the risks change all the time, and this has never been more apparent than right now, said panelists for Insurance Journal’s …

Commercial Lines Sales Platform Sayata Raises $17M to Expand Beyond Cyber

Cyber insurance platform Sayata has raised $17 million in new venture capital and plans to expand to offer more specialty coverages. The startup’s platform automates the quote and bind process to help wholesale brokers and carriers quickly and easily offer …

White House, Big Tech, Insurers Vow to ‘Raise the Bar’ on Cybersecurity

The U.S. government on Wednesday said it would work with industry to hammer out new guidelines to improve the security of the technology supply chain, as President Joe Biden appealed to private sector executives to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.” …

Insurtech ELEMENT and MGA Parametrix Launch Cloud Outage Insurance in Europe

ELEMENT, the Berlin-based insurtech, announced a partnership with managing general agent, Parametrix Insurance, launching parametric cloud outage insurance for companies in Germany. The product is designed to cover financial losses due to downtime of third-party IT and cloud infrastructure providers. …

Insurance Is on Agenda at Today’s White House Cyber Summit With Tech Leaders

The White House is hosting an event on Wednesday that will bring together the largest U.S. technology companies for a discussion about cybersecurity challenges following a raft of high-profile hacking incidents earlier this year, people familiar with the event told …

TechAssure Launches Cyber Threat Sharing Community to Fight Ransomware

TechAssure has announced a partnership with RiskAnalytics and ICE Cybersecurity to launch an exclusive cyber insurance option called The ShadowNet Program, a real-time, proactive cyber intelligence service. Using RiskAnalytics’ proprietary cybersecurity solutions, and ICE Cybersecurity’s assessment and analytics platform, insureds …

Accenture: Systems Restored, ‘No Impact’ From Reported Ransomware Attack

Accenture said it has fully restored certain affected systems, after a CNBC reporter tweeted of a hacker group saying it attacked the IT consulting firm using LockBit ransomware and threatened to release the data in several hours. “Through our security …