Credit insurance
How women are smashing insurance’s glass ceilings
Ahead of International Women’s Day (8 March), Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes examines how glass ceilings in insurance are being smashed and whether presenteeism rearing its ugly head could stunt further female progress in the industry.
Diary of an Insurance PR: SEC Newgate's Vanessa Chance
Vanessa Chance, director of communications at SEC Newgate UK, raises the profile of Insurance United Against Dementia, learns more about using artificial intelligence in communications plus handles a potential reputational risk issue.
Scor extends Concirrus partnership; GRP makes fifth 2023 acquisition; Go Compare founder joins TCI
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hiscox partners with Supercede; Zurich offering 100 apprenticeships; Stubben Edge secures further funding
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hiscox partners with Verisk; RSA launches carers’ policy & QBE restructures trade credit team
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Q&A: Sarah Murrow, Allianz Trade
Allianz Trade UK & Ireland CEO Sarah Murrow speaks to Post about her first year at the helm, dropping the Euler Hermes name, and the role that credit insurance can play as a post-Covid-19 growth tool.
Spotlight: Cyber - Small businesses need cyber insurance now more than ever
There’s a growing market need for cyber insurance for small and midsize businesses, but too few insurance providers offer policies — and that should change.
Marsh/Volante launch shareholder activism product; insurance sector launches flood directory; GRP buys Hamilton Fraser; Liberty rolls out real-time flood warning solution
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Aspen launches ESG integration initiative ‘Project Leaf’
Aspen has formally launched Project Leaf, an environmental, social and governance integration strategy that will incorporate ESG information into the decision making process for its credit and political risk portfolio.
Ardonagh buys MDS; Markerstudy snaps up Clegg Gifford; start-up broker Attis targets London/acquisitions; WTW and Munich Re in parametric 'world's first'
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches and investments of the week.
Aviva insures autonomous shuttle trial; brokers outscore insurers in CX research finds; Howden buys again; Gallagher completes on Willis deal and PPL updates on next gen platform
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Government-backed trade credit reinsurance scheme to end on 30 June
The UK trade credit reinsurance scheme will close on 30 June, the government and the Association of British Insurers have announced.
First insurance ESG Framework unveiled; Ardonagh acquires Usay Gp; James Hallam adds trio of buys; and Right Choice completes Bennetts deal
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week not covered elsewhere on www.postonline.co.uk
Axa teams up with Microsoft; Ardonagh unveils Beazley capacity deal; Lloyd's to open Manchester hub; LV rolls out ethical standard
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week not covered elsewhere on www.postonline.co.uk
For the record: Chubb bids $23bn for rival; Amazon to sell SME insurance; RAC launches pay per mile cover and London team swaps AFL for SRG
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week not covered elsewhere on www.postonline.co.uk
For the Record: BGL rolls out digital claims, Chubb backs Covid-19 cover, Covea in Vitality tie-up, insurtech funding hits £5.2bn and Tractable deals
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Chaucer promotes Deborah Wyatt to head of political risk and credit
Chaucer has promoted Deborah Wyatt to head of political risk and credit to replace current head Nick Kilhams who is retiring after 22 years with the company.
Government interventions to spare credit insurers the worst of pandemic losses
Credit insurers face pandemic-related claims continuing well into 2021 but will avoid losses on a similar scale to those seen after the 2008 global financial crisis thanks to government interventions, according to Fitch Ratings.
Analysis: The Covid crunch in insurer results
With analysts cautioning the Covid crunch will begin to bite insurers in the second quarter of 2020, Post investigates what impact the coronavirus pandemic has already had in the first quarter
Analysis: Covid-19's sting in the tail for trade credit and political risks insurers
Trade credit and the political risks class were among those with the greatest Covid-19 predicted insured losses, ranking behind only hard-hit areas such as business interruption and contingency, in a scenario analysis published by Willis Towers Watson in…
Government's £10bn trade credit support package gets cross-industry welcome
Trade credit insurers operating in the UK market will receive up to £10bn of government guarantees, ministers announced today.