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Overseas buyers behind surge in transactional risk insurance

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Demand for transactional risk insurance grew by 41% globally in 2012 as firms increasingly turned to the insurance market to protect large deals and cross-border acquisitions or sales.

The limits of insurance placed by Marsh in 2012, compared to 2011, by geography were: Europe, the Middle East and Africa, $2.2bn ($1.7bn); Asia Pacific, $423m ($387m); and Americas, $1.4bn ($768m).

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