Lloyd’s News

Brussels Hopes to Lure Other Finance Firms After Its Success with Lloyd’s

Brussels expects to lure other financial players after convincing Lloyd’s of London, the world’s largest specialty insurance market, to make the city its post-Brexit European hub. While Lloyd’s choice on Thursday surprised some, lower rental prices and its proximity to …

Lloyd’s Reports £2.1B ($2.6B) Profit for 2016, Unchanged from 2015

Lloyd’s reported 2016 pretax profit of £2.1 billion pounds ($2.6 billion), level with 2015, despite a worsening of the market’s combined ratio at 97.9 percent, compared with 90.0 percent in 2015. Return on capital was 8.1 percent in 2016 compared …

Lloyd’s to Open EU Insurer in Brussels in Preparation for Brexit

Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance market, announced it will set up a European insurance company in Brussels in preparation for the UK’s exit from the European Union. The Brussels’ subsidiary will aim to be ready to write business for …

Lloyd’s Shortlists Brussels or Luxembourg as EU HQ: Sources

Lloyd’s of London, the world’s largest specialty insurance market, will this week pick Brussels or Luxembourg for its planned European Union subsidiary, after Dublin had been an early favorite, sources say. Lloyd’s has been one of London’s most vocal financial …

Neon Launches Marine & Offshore Construction Consortium

Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Neon has launched a Marine and Offshore Construction Consortium. Seeking to address the increasingly tailored insurance needs of shipyard clients, the Neon led-consortium offers $70 million capacity for shipyard construction and $55 million for rig construction, said …

RSA Begins Trading on London Market Placing Platform, PPL

International insurer RSA has begun trading on the London insurance market’s electronic placing platform, PPL (Placing Platform Ltd.), which enables brokers and underwriters to quote, negotiate, bind and endorse business using one market-wide system. RSA’s Profin underwriting team is now …

Liability Risk Modeling Tool Launched by Lloyd’s and AIR’s Arium

Lloyd’s and modeling company Arium have launched a tool designed to enable insurers and reinsurers to model liability exposure probabilistically across their entire portfolios, Lloyd’s announced. “The new approach categorizes casualty events based on a company’s business activities – its …

Munich Re Syndicate’s Hoare Elected to Council of Lloyd’s

Dominick Hoare, chief underwriting officer for Munich Re Syndicate Ltd., was elected this week to the position of corporate-external member to the Council of Lloyd’s, which is the body responsible for the supervision of the Lloyd’s market. Hoare represents Munich …

London Market’s Placing Platform, PPL, Expands Offering with Marine Lines

PPL, the London market’s electronic placing platform, announced that marine business is now available to be bound on the PPL platform. The platform began trading stand-alone terrorism risks in July 2016, and now writes political violence, financial and professional lines, …

EU Nations May Be Competing ‘Unfairly’ to Attract UK Finance Firms After Brexit

The European Union’s market watchdog is investigating ways to stop national regulators competing unfairly with each other as they try to attract firms from Britain after Brexit in a beauty parade of financial centers. The European Securities and Markets Authority …