Reinsurance News
CFC adds Christyn Yoast as Global Head of Commercial
26th January 2026
Specialist insurance provider CFC has appointed Christyn Yoast as Global Head of Commercial to drive the group’s commercial strategy across its growing international footprint. Yoast is expected to start in January 2026 and will be based in New York. She has over two decades of experience spanning underwriting, distribution, and strategy development ... Read the full article
Concirrus and Diesta partner to deliver efficient quote-to-cash in specialty insurance market
26th January 2026
Concirrus, provider of AI-centric insurance solutions, has strategically partnered with Diesta, the dedicated payment operations platform built for intermediated insurance, to deliver a unified, quote-to-cash solution. This collaboration merges Concirrus' risk processing solutions with Diesta's automated premium processing and financial transparency layer. The duo hopes that this partnership will reduce operational friction ... Read the full article
Swiss Re appoints Alexander White as Senior Casualty Treaty Underwriter, Australia
26th January 2026
Swiss Re, a global provider of reinsurance, insurance, and risk solutions, has appointed Alexander White as Senior Casualty Treaty Underwriter for Australia. White joins the reinsurer with nearly 14 years of industry experience. Most recently, he served at another one of the Europe's big four, Munich Re, for over four years. ... Read the full article
US P&C industry set for lowest net combined ratio in over a decade: Triple-I/Milliman
23rd January 2026
The US property & casualty (P&C) insurance industry is forecast to have its lowest net combined ratio (NCR) in over a decade for the full year 2025, despite the devastating California wildfires in Q1’25, supported by an Atlantic hurricane season that did not make landfall in the US. The findings are ... Read the full article
RLI trims cat reinsurance by $150m at Jan renewal in ‘buyer’s market’
23rd January 2026
RLI Insurance Company reduced its catastrophe reinsurance limit by $150 million for 2026 at the January renewals, citing lower exposure and continued soft conditions, which it described as a “buyer’s market” for property. Jen Klobnak, Chief Operating Officer of RLI Corp., said the firm renewed roughly two-thirds of its annual reinsurance ... Read the full article
Michelle Li takes on CFO role at Hamilton Global Specialty
23rd January 2026
Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., an international specialty insurance and reinsurance group, has announced the appointment of Michelle Li as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Hamilton Global Specialty, its underwriting platform headquartered in London. In her new role, Li will be located in London and will work in close partnership with Alex ... Read the full article
Skyward expands Specialty Life Sciences unit powered by Apollo
23rd January 2026
Skyward Group has expanded Skyward Specialty’s Life Sciences insurance solution by leveraging Apollo’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 1969, to offer enhanced multinational placements for US-domiciled life sciences companies with international operations. Skyward Group is the unified specialty insurance organisation whose operating businesses include Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc., a property and ... Read the full article
Argenta makes two senior leadership appointments
23rd January 2026
Argenta, a Lloyd’s insurer, has appointed Alexandra Hayes as Head of Group Strategy & Execution/Chief of Staff and Sweta Tzimopoulos as Chief Distribution Officer. The two appointments aim to strengthen the insurer’s leadership team and reflect its focus on strategic growth. Hayes joined Argenta at the start of January 2026, and Tzimopoulos ... Read the full article
AXA XL appoints Samantha Hazlewood to global client management role
23rd January 2026
AXA XL, the property and casualty division of global insurer AXA Group, has announced the appointment of Samantha Hazlewood as Head of AXA Group Partnerships and Strategic Client Management for AXA XL, effective 1st February 2026. In her new role, Hazlewood will oversee relationships with AXA’s most strategic accounts worldwide, fostering ... Read the full article
Redesigning how humans and tech collaborate will separate leaders from laggards in 2026: Capgemini
23rd January 2026
With the re/insurance market facing compounding pressures in 2026, Capgemini’s Luca Russignan has suggested the gap is widening between those who execute and those who merely experiment, as AI’s double-edged nature rewards true trailblazers who are redesigning processes around the technology rather than simply adopting it. In a New Year discussion ... Read the full article
Trawick Holdings expands Lloyd’s market presence with new registered brokerage
23rd January 2026
Trawick International Limited, a member of Trawick Holdings, a privately owned specialty insurance group offering travel and niche insurance products worldwide, has confirmed the launch of a Lloyd’s registered brokerage within the group. The brokerage has been established in collaboration with sister company Greenlight Insurance Services Ltd, both operating under the ... Read the full article
Fathom launches new terrain dataset to enhance risk analysis
23rd January 2026
Water risk intelligence firm Fathom has launched FathomDEM+, a global terrain dataset designed to provide a single, uniform, and independently benchmarked view of terrain worldwide, enhancing risk analysis. The programme aims to underpin the next generation of Fathom’s global flood maps, starting with Fathom’s updated Global Flood Map. It is also available ... Read the full article
The market is softening but could ‘turn on a knife edge’: Turk, Lloyd’s
23rd January 2026
Rachel Turk, Chief of Market Performance at Lloyd’s of London, classifies the current reinsurance market as one that is softening, but not soft, noting that it is on a knife edge and could reverse following a major loss event. Speaking at Fitch Ratings’ Insurance Insights 2026 event on 22nd January in ... Read the full article
AI12 to accelerate Specialty expansion with Sheppard as CBO
23rd January 2026
Edward Sheppard is set to lead the CP&I portfolio and accelerate the global Specialty growth strategy of AI12, a global specialist insurance and reinsurance brokerage, as Chief Broking Officer. The appointment follows AI12’s authorisation by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to be established as a regulated entity within the ... Read the full article
Price Forbes Re strengthens L&H team with Alexander Ehrlich & Younkyung Cho
23rd January 2026
Price Forbes Re, an independent reinsurance broker, has announced the appointments of Alexander Ehrlich as Senior Vice President, Life & Health reinsurance, and Younkyung Cho as Vice President, Business Development Actuary. Both Ehrlich and Cho will report to Isaac Sanday, Global Head of Life & Health at Price Forbes Re. In their ... Read the full article
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