cyber reinsurance News

Guy Carpenter Names Co-Heads of Cyber, Hiring Swiss Re’s Cordonnier, Promoting Davis

Guy Carpenter & Co., the reinsurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan, announced the appointment of Anthony Cordonnier as managing director and global co-head of Cyber, effective the second half of 2021, and the promotion of Erica Davis to global co-head …

April Reinsurance Renewal Pricing ‘More of the Same,’ Reports Willis Re

International reinsurance renewals completed for April 1 followed trends set earlier in the season, as market pricing remained firm in virtually all classes and territories. Capacity was adequate across the board, and no substantive changes took place in negotiations over …

Aon Secures $70M in Alternative Capital Capacity to Transfer Systemic Cyber Risk

Insurance broker Aon plc has launched a new product with Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (an asset manager undertaking its re/insurance business as HSCM Bermuda) to protect insurers and reinsurers against systemic and catastrophic cyber events. Aon and HSCM have …

Envelop Risk Paves the Way as Insurtech Reinsurance MGA

Managing general agents for reinsurance are rare. Reinsurance MGAs that write cyber are even rarer, which is the world that Envelop Risk inhabits. “We think we’re the only insurtech firm involved in cyber reinsurance from an underwriting perspective,” said Jonathan …

Kovrr Develops Open Framework for Measuring Catastrophic Cyber Risk

Kovrr, a cyber risk modeling company, announced it has developed an easy-to-use open framework to measure and understand catastrophic cyber risk exposure. The CRA-Zones™ framework defines the minimal elements needed to provide a view of cyber risk aggregations, allows for …

Cyber Underwriting Firm Envelop Risk Raises $6 Million in Funding

Envelop Risk, the UK cyber underwriting and risk analytics business, announced a Series A investment of approximately $6 million. The funding round was led by artificial intelligence specialist investor Alpha Intelligence Capital (AIC), with additional support from existing investors including …

Travelex Ransomware Attack Part of Growing Trend in Cyber Crime: CyberCube

The ransomware attack against U.K. foreign exchange firm Travelex is just a taste of what’s to come with cyber crime, according to experts at CyberCube, the cyber risk analytics firm. Travelex announced this week that cyber hackers were holding its …

Beazley and RenaissanceRe Launch Cyber Catastrophe Cover Backed by Capital Markets

Specialist insurer Beazley and reinsurer RenaissanceRe have jointly launched a product that provides Beazley with additional catastrophe cover for cyber events. The majority of the security behind the deal will be provided by capital market sources structured by RenaissanceRe. This …

Reinsurers Look at Cyber’s Massive Growth Possibilities-With Caution

Reinsurers are aware they must constantly invent new solutions in order to stay relevant for their clients. Yet, they admit they are sometimes challenged to close the protection gap for new and emerging risks such as cyber. Cyber is actually …

Staying Profitable in an Increasingly Fragmented World: SCOR Global P&C CEO

There are several things that keep SCOR’s Jean-Paul Conoscente awake at night. Climate change is one of them; cyber risk is another. Only time will tell whether these risks are actually insurable, cautions Conoscente, who became the CEO of SCOR …