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New Castle and CIG Re head Chris McKeown joined global reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter in July as CEO of the firm’s global analytical and specialty practices, Trading Risk understands. McKeown
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Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded six cat bonds and placed a further four on CreditWatch with negative implications in a move which stems from a hardening of its rating crit
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North Carolina’s state-backed catastrophe insurance plans, the Joint Underwriting Association and the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association, (NCJUA/IUA), have securitised $125mn of
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Hannover Re’s upcoming Eurus II European windstorm catastrophe bond, which has an indicative size of EUR75mn and is currently being roadshowed to investors, will incorporate an innovative colla
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New Castle and CIG Re head Chris McKeown joined global reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter today (1 July) as CEO of the firm’s global analytical and specialty practices, Trading Risk understands.
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Changes in the accounting treatment of insurance-linked securities and derivatives are set to boost the convergence sector, as the European directive Solvency II recognises the instruments as “
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Cat bond managers GC Securities and Deutsche Bank won the Non-life transaction of the year category at last night’s Trading Risk awards, beating Goldman Sachs for Topiary Capital, SCOR for Atla
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Convergence market luminaries gathered in London last night to celebrate and reward the skill, innovation, dynamism and vision so evident in this sector at the inaugural Trading Risk awards. The winn
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Goldman Sachs partner Michael J. Millette was heralded as the Outstanding Contributor of the year at the inaugural Trading Risk awards dinner last night in London. Telling the audience of convergenc
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Tony Ursano – CEO of Willis capital markets and advisory – has hired seven former colleagues from Banc of America (BofA) Securities to boost the new group. Former co-head of equity capita
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A clear pipeline for new cat bond issuance in early June proved a fillip for secondary trading, with volumes and pricing increasing on US and non-US peril bonds. “In the first ten days of June
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Insurance-linked securities (ILS) sponsor USAA – which issued its thirteenth consecutive cat bond last month – has set a new disclosure standard for (re)insurers by posting data on all of