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Moody’s downgrades Brazilian captive
14 December 2015
Reporter Becky Butcher

Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the insurance financial strength rating of Monticello Insurance, a Brazil-based captive reinsurance subsidiary, to “Ba1” from “Baa3”, with a negative outlook...

Colombian energy captive is affirmed
09 November 2015
Reporter Mark Dugdale

Fitch has affirmed the insurer and national insurer financial strength ratings of the pure captive of Colombian energy company Ecopetrol...

Key motivators driving regulation development in APAC
03 November 2015
Reporter Becky Butcher

Four key motivators are driving the development of solvency requirements and regulatory initiatives that are affecting reinsurers and insurers in the Asia Pacific, according to a Guy Carpenter report...

Guy Carpenter examines shifting public sector risk
29 October 2015
Reporter Becky Butcher

Approximately $2.7 trillion of natural catastrophe losses globally went uninsured between 1970 and 2014, causing heads of government, international trade organisations and private-sector risk bearers to consider new approaches to risk financing, acco

Insurance-linked securities growth stabilises
21 October 2015
Reporter Becky Butcher

ILS assets under management continue to grow but at a slower rate than the record breaking pace of recent years, according to the latest ILS report from Willis Capital Markets and Advisory...

GC Securities completes cat bond for PennUnion Re
15 October 2015
Reporter Becky Butcher

GC Securities has placed the Series 2015-1 Notes, with notional principal of $275 million, through the newly formed catastrophe bond shelf programme PennUnion Re...

Willis launches protected cell company
01 October 2015
Reporter Becky Butcher

The Willis global captive practice has set up a Willis-owned and managed protected cell company (PCC) insurance facility in Vermont...

Michael Halsband joins Drinker Biddle
22 September 2015
Reporter Becky Butcher

Michael Halsband has joined Drinker Biddle & Reath as a member of the firm’s insurance transactional and regulatory team. He will be based in the New York City office...

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