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Reinsurance News 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 MS Transverse names Tom McGrath Senior Vice President, Head of Program Underwriting 23rd January 2026 MS Transverse, a hybrid fronting carrier that works with MGAs and programme administrators across the United States, has recently announced that Tom McGrath has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Head of Program Underwriting. McGrath will be responsible for directing programme underwriting activities across MS Transverse’s portfolio of MGA and ... Read the full article There’s a fair & healthy balance between supply and demand: Guidée, AXA XL Re 23rd January 2026 Renaud Guidée, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of property and casualty reinsurer AXA XL Reinsurance, has said that in the current reinsurance market environment, which he describes as a "fair and healthy balance" between supply and demand, is the time when you can make a difference. Yesterday, Guidée discussed current market dynamics ... Read the full article Extreme weather in Australia costs insurers $3.5bn in 2025: ICA 23rd January 2026 According to new data from the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), extreme weather events have resulted in almost $3.5 billion in insured losses from 264,000 claims in 2025. Of these losses, the costliest was Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which accounted for 132,000 claims and more than $1.5 billion in insured losses. Severe hailstorms ... Read the full article Fidelis secures $75m of reinsurance protection with latest cat bond 23rd January 2026 Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited (FIBL), part of Fidelis Insurance Group, has successfully placed a new catastrophe bond, providing its parent with annual aggregate, industry-loss triggered protection against losses from earthquakes affecting the United States and the District of Columbia. The new catastrophe bond was placed through the issuance of Series 2026-1 ... Read the full article Hannover Re appoints Prateek Maheshwari as CFO, India Branch 23rd January 2026 Hannover Re, a global reinsurer operating across property and casualty, life, and health lines, has announced the appointment of Prateek Maheshwari as Chief Financial Officer of its India Branch. Maheshwari has been part of Hannover Re since 2017, when he joined the India Branch as Finance Manager. Prior to his current appointment, ... Read the full article Fitch Ratings: US P&C market to soften further in 2026 as competition intensifies 23rd January 2026 Fitch Ratings, the credit rating agency, expects the US property and casualty (P&C) insurance market to face continued softening through 2026. According to the analysis, the US P&C insurance market is set to become more competitive in 2026, with abundant capital and easing pricing continuing to weigh on premium growth. As rate ... Read the full article
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