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Cyber insurance and reinsurance news, covering the growth of cyber reinsurance underwriting, the risks faced by cyber risk insurer’s, major cyber loss events, cyber reinsurance product development and cyber risk innovation trends.
Cyber risk is an emerging and fast-growing class of insurance and reinsurance business, so our cyber reinsurance news follows industry trends and reports on innovations, industry cyber risk capacity issues, as well as what is happening in the cyber underwriting market.
RSA launches £25m capacity cyber protection product
20th September 2018
RSA, one of the largest UK commercial insurers, has expanded its cyber protection to provide standalone, comprehensive worldwide cover of up to £25 million in capacity. The new cover is an evolution of its existing cyber product for small and medium-sized enterprises and offers a Deloitte-supported, detailed cyber risk assessment for ... Read the full article
Price cycles less pronounced, rates to fade out in 2019: S&P Global
20th September 2018
In the wake of Monte Carlo’s 62nd "Rendez-Vous de Septembre", S&P Global believes 2018 clearly demonstrated that price cycles have become less pronounced, reinforcing its belief that rate increases will fade out in 2019. The main reason for this pressure, S&P says, is the significant capacity of both traditional and alternative ... Read the full article
Companies that don’t embrace change face irrelevancy: Ed CEO Steve Hearn
14th September 2018
Companies that fail to embrace new dynamics and “Continue to peddle the old model” will ultimately become redundant, says Steve Hearn, Chief Executive Officer of the London and global insurance and reinsurance brokerage, Ed. In a conversation at the Reinsurance Rendez-vous with Hearn and Kieran Angelini-Hurll, CEO of Reinsurance at Ed, ... Read the full article
Aon addresses silent cyber with $350m reinsurance solution
11th September 2018
Global re/insurance broker Aon has announced the launch of a new reinsurance solution, backed with $350 million capacity, designed to help carriers navigate the consequences of silent cyber. Silent cyber can occur when other types of insurance or reinsurance products fail to explicitly exclude cyber risks, which could result in an ... Read the full article
MS Amlin enters cyber reinsurance market with Envelop Risk partnership
11th September 2018
Global re/insurer MS Amlin is partnering with the recently-launched cyber insurance analytics firm Envelop Risk on solutions for the reinsurance market. Under the terms of the partnership, Envelop Risk and MS Amlin will underwrite a cyber reinsurance portfolio with MS Amlin AG as capacity provider. Led by Envelop Risk Chief Underwriting ... Read the full article
Re/insurers are not mastering cyber: SCOR’s Victor Peignet
10th September 2018
French reinsurance giant SCOR does still not feel that the re/insurance industry has mastered cyber to a level where it is able to underwrite on a big scale. Speaking in Monte Carlo today at the Reinsurance Rendez-vous, Victor Peignet, CEO of SCOR’s Global P&C division explained that, while they’ve been putting ... Read the full article
Re/insurers risk irrelevancy by ignoring cyber, say Munich Re heads
9th September 2018
The re/insurance industry is at risk of becoming irrelevant if it avoids the challenge of tackling cyber risk, which also remains an area with huge growth potential, according to senior executives at German reinsurance giant Munich Re. Speaking at a media conference on the first day of the Rendezvous event in Monte ... Read the full article
GCube launches cyber risk cover for renewables
6th September 2018
Specialist renewable energy insurer GCube has a launched cyber risk policy aimed at protecting renewable energy sources from attacks. The policy follows a rise in cyber hostility towards global power generation and transmission infrastructure. “In the renewables market, the benefits of ‘big data’ and interconnectivity in driving operational efficiency are well-established ... Read the full article
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions appoints Codding as Global Head of Cyber & Tech
5th September 2018
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance arm of the global reinsurance firm, has appointed Sandy Codding as Global Head Cyber & Technology, effective immediately. Codding brings over 30 years’ experience to the company and in his new role will be responsible for overseeing cyber and technology underwriting guidelines, rating methodology, ... Read the full article
Capsicum Re partners with AIR Worldwide on silent cyber risk models
5th September 2018
Specialist reinsurance broker Capsicum Re has announced that it is collaborating with AIR Worldwide, the catastrophe risk modelling arm of Verisk Analytics, in order to enhance the re/insurance industry’s modelling of silent cyber incidents. As part of the arrangement, Capsicum Re has also adopted AIR’s cyber modelling and analytics platform, ARC, ... Read the full article
PCS launches enhanced Cyber Index service for catastrophic cyber events
4th September 2018
Property Claim Services (PCS), a subsidiary of the data analytics and risk assessment firm Verisk, has announced enhancements to its Global Cyber Index service including coverage for catastrophic cyber events, and industry-wide insured losses of over $250 million. The improved product is now available for existing PCS Global Cyber users, addresses ... Read the full article
Daljitt Barn joins Tokio Marine from Munich Re as Global Head of Cyber Risk
3rd September 2018
Tokio Marine Holdings has announced the appointment of Daljitt Barn from reinsurance giant Munich Re, to the newly created role of Global Head of Cyber Risk. Based in London, Barn started at Tokio Marine on September 3rd, 2018, and will be responsible for developing the firm's cyber strategy. Joining from Munich Re, ... Read the full article
CyberCube adds former Swiss Re CUO Matthias Weber to Board
28th August 2018
Cyber risk analytics firm CyberCube has announced the addition of Matthias Weber, former Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) at Swiss Re, to its Board of Directors. Weber joined Swiss Re in 1992, and worked across a diverse number of roles and markets during his 25-year tenure at the company, including as Head ... Read the full article
Cyber insurers could lose up to 119% of policyholder surplus in single event: A.M. Best
20th August 2018
A new collaborative report by A.M. Best and Guidewire Software has estimated that three of the top 20 cyber insurers could generate significant gross losses to policyholder surplus of between 15% to 119% from a single cyber catastrophe event occurring in 2022. A.M. Best and Guidewire’s Cyence Risk Analytics team extrapolated ... Read the full article
Don’t take cyber market for granted, accumulation real threat: Geneva Association
17th August 2018
Despite having responded to increasingly widespread and sophisticated threats with expanded offerings and premium volumes, the cyber re/insurance market’s own growth and effectiveness should not be taken for granted, warns leading think tank the Geneva Association. Anna Maria D'Hulster, Secretary General of the GA, acknowledges re/insurers’ historical experience with expanding the ... Read the full article
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