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  • North America
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    777 Partners co-founder Wander hit with federal fraud charges
    The executive is charged with defrauding investors out of nearly $500mn.
    Clark Mindock, 17 October 2025
  • M&A
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    CyberCube secures $180mn+ investment from Spectrum
    Spectrum joins investors ForgePoint, Hudson and MTech.
    Rachel Dalton, 01 October 2025
  • Bermuda
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    S&P Global issues Vantage Risk A- financial strength rating
    Vantage Group Holdings received a BBB- long-term issuer credit rating.
    Abbie Day, 16 September 2025
  • Bermuda
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    Akinova plans agg umbrella offering for bluechip insureds
    The tech firm is building a joint stock company with insurers and investors.
    Liz Bury, 11 September 2025
  • Cyber
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    Cyber analytics firm CyberCube in sale talks with Verisk
    It is understood that CyberCube has been considering a sale of the business.
    Jairo Ibarra, 05 September 2025
  • Sidecars
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    Ryan Specialty launches Flexpoint- and Sixth Street-backed sidecar, RAC Re
    Ryan Alternative Capital Re was launched in partnership with Axis Capital.
    Abbie Day, 05 September 2025
  • London market
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    Oak Re to launch second Lloyd’s syndicate writing property and specialty retro
    Syndicate 1440 was approved to assume business incepting January 2026.
    Kyoung-son Song, 03 September 2025
  • Florida
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    Q2 Floridian earnings roundup August 12: Slide, American Integrity
    American Integrity grew GWP by 30% to $287mn and Slide GWP was up 25% to $435mn in Q2.
    Insurance Insider ILS team, 13 August 2025
  • Talent
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    Atrium appoints Byrns for weather and climate entry
    The new team will be headed by Brown & Brown’s Ed Byrns.
    Abbie Day, 04 August 2025
  • Interviews
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    Cat pricing at ‘risk-adequate level’: Scor’s Léger
    Scor's CEO said the P&C market had experienced a “competitive” first half.
    Abbie Day, 31 July 2025
  • Commercial Lines
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    Aon urges clients to ‘take advantage’ of market conditions
    The broker has noted that double-digit reductions are increasingly available in property.
    Rebecca Perkins, 30 July 2025
  • Talent
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    Guy Carp appoints Flynn as Global Specialties head of global clients
    Matthew Flynn joins from RenaissanceRe.
    Abbie Day, 29 July 2025
  • Brokers
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    Aon’s ILS business showed double-digit growth in Q2
    Cat bond broking growth contributed to 6% organic growth in reinsurance.
    Abbie Day, 25 July 2025
  • Regulation
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    Lloyd’s welcomes scrapping of US ‘revenge tax’
    The measure could have landed insurers with extra tax on US business.
    Rachel Dalton, 30 June 2025
  • Brokers
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    ILW broker Rothstein among Guy Carpenter departures for Willis Re
    A group of Bermuda staff also left the broker.
    Rachel Dalton, 26 June 2025
  • Brokers
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    Lockton Re appoints Baldwin to retrocession and property specialty
    David Baldwin joins from EIRS where he was a senior reinsurance consultant.
    Abbie Day, 02 June 2025
  • Catastrophe losses
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    Acrisure Re forecasts above-average 2025 hurricane season
    Last week, TSR updated its forecast and is now predicting above-average storm activity.
    Ayesha Venkataraman, 30 May 2025
  • Catastrophe losses
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    Tropical Storm Risk predicts four major hurricanes in updated forecast
    TSR previously predicted activity slightly below the 1995-2024 average.
    Adam Kovac, 23 May 2025
  • Catastrophe losses
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    NOAA predicting high chance of ‘above-normal’ hurricane season
    The agency forecasts up to five major hurricanes and 19 named storms.
    Adam Kovac, 22 May 2025
  • Commercial Lines
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    ‘Innovative capital structures’ on the rise: Howden Re’s Fox
    Fox highlighted the increasing role of alternative capital and creative financial vehicles.
    Meg Green, 22 May 2025
  • Renewals
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    Mercury General targets $2bn reinsurance renewal, up by around 50%
    The targeted uplift comes after Mercury ceded nearly $1.3bn of wildfire losses to reinsurers in Q1.
    Liz Bury, 19 May 2025
  • Reinsurance
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    Oak Re makes host of hires with GC’s Morse named London MD
    The headcount at the start-up now stands at around 40.
    Rebecca Perkins, 13 May 2025
  • Cyber
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    Softer reinsurance pricing puts cyber ILS on the back burner
    Sources believe the market will grow gradually over years after its initial cluster of dealmaking.
    Jai Singh, 12 May 2025
  • Catastrophe losses
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    Ark posts 94% Q1 CoR, $75mn LA wildfire net loss
    Ark's combined ratio included 25 points of catastrophe losses in Q1.
    Rebecca Perkins, 07 May 2025
  • Commercial Lines
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    Florida judge hands Carlyle Aviation partial win in Russian jets case
    AIG, HDI Global and others have settled, while Chubb’s fight continues.
    Clark Mindock, 02 May 2025
  • Catastrophe losses
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    Excluding wildfire risks will hinder ILS market growth: Aon’s Pennay
    Richard Pennay also addressed the dip in cyber ILS activity.
    Rebecca Perkins, 02 May 2025
  • Property treaty
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    E&S market primed for growth with support of ILS capital
    The renewal and upsizing of the Trouvaille E&S sidecar highlighted the market’s potential.
    Jai Singh, 01 May 2025
  • Regulation
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    Trump announces 90-day pause on most tariffs, with China excluded
    The announcement spurred a quick spike in stock market valuations.
    Clark Mindock, 09 April 2025
  • Catastrophe bonds
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    Palomar Specialty seeks $425mn of US quake coverage
    Torrey Pines Re is split among three tranches of notes.
    Abbie Day, 08 April 2025
  • Brokers
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    ILS capital hit a record $114bn as of 1 April: Gallagher Re
    The reinsurance broker said total reinsurance market capacity was up 5.3% year over year.
    Abbie Day, 01 April 2025
  • Cyber
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    Hannover Re renews parametric cyber cat bond at $20mn
    The deal is 45% larger than 2024’s issuance after attracting a “greater number of investors”.
    Jai Singh, 26 March 2025
  • Catastrophe losses
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    February cat heatmap: A break in the clouds
    Cat losses last month were lighter than historical trends, but all eyes are on Q1 figures.
    Noah Marchese, 26 March 2025
  • Brokers
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    Aon confirms Andersen’s departure as president
    The executive will remain with the firm as a senior adviser to the CEO until mid-2026.
    Rachel Dalton, 17 March 2025
  • London market
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    MS Amlin launches partnerships unit
    Deputy CUO Sam Geddes will lead the division.
    Rachel Dalton, 27 January 2025
  • ILS managers
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    Euler ILS Partners puts focus on specialty/life for buildout
    The former Credit Suisse ILS head Niklaus Hilti said working on life buyout hedges could rejuvenate the life ILS market.
    Liz Bury, 20 January 2025
  • ILS investors
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    Cyber ILS market ‘in development rather than lift-off’: Geneva Association
    Novelty premiums will likely fade once investors are more comfortable with the risk.
    Jai Singh, 06 January 2025
  • Specialty lines
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    HP Re assumes Elementum portfolios for $44mn
    In June 2023, Hale Partnership got its license from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority for HP Re.
    Farhin Lilywala, 06 January 2025
  • Specialty lines
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    Oak Re secures Bain Capital as minority backer ahead of 1.1 launch
    Other capacity supporting the syndicate is mostly individual Names, sources have said.
    Adam McNestrie, 25 November 2024
  • Catastrophe losses
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    KCC’s latest flood model receives Florida commission’s certification
    The model factors in the effects of climate change to date.
    Jai Singh, 12 November 2024
  • Catastrophe bonds
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    ILWs, cat bonds ‘part of toolkit’ to manage cyber exposures: Beazley’s Cox
    CEO Adrian Cox said Beazley’s recent $290mn ILW purchase was not driven by “capital flexibility in and of itself”.
    Rebecca Perkins, 06 November 2024
  • Catastrophe bonds
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    Hurricane Milton unlikely to trigger Mexican cat bond
    The Mexican cat bond offers $125mn of protection against Atlantic named storms.
    Stephanie Denton, 08 October 2024
  • Reinsurers
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    Reinsurer discipline remains strong, contingent on emergent threats: APCIA panel
    The panelists discussed the ILS reset and the path to maintaining discipline in this sector.
    Shelby Rosenberg, 07 October 2024
  • Re/insurers
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    Beazley adds $290mn cyber ILW limit to its reinsurance protection
    The deal has reduced the carrier’s one-in-250-year cyber loss scenario from $651mn to $461mn.
    Abbie Day, 02 October 2024
  • Catastrophe bonds
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    Beazley secures $210mn with third PoleStar Re cyber bond
    The deal is offering a multiple of 11.3x on the expected loss.
    Jai Singh, 20 September 2024
  • Catastrophe bonds
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    Beazley upsizes latest PoleStar Re bond by 167% to $200mn
    The bond offers a multiple of 11.3x based on a modelled expected loss of 0.93%.
    Jai Singh, 18 September 2024
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    Beazley seeks $75mn with third PoleStar Re cyber cat bond
    The bond is offering a spread range of 950-1,050 basis points.
    Jai Singh, 04 September 2024
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    Geographical diversification can cut cloud-outage risk: research
    Portfolios of clients of varying size in the same region aggregate more risk.
    Rachel Dalton, 30 August 2024
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    CrowdStrike shows need to improve data collection to win ILS investors
    Building better exposure datasets could draw a broader range of investors.
    Jai Singh, 27 August 2024
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