Lockton has launched a new global reinsurance business, Lockton Global Re, with a leadership team of well-known executives from the insurance industry

Artex Risk Solutions has promoted Laura Hurlston to client services manager

Tennessee-domiciled captive insurance companies’ written premiums rose by 20 percent to $1.2 billion last year, despite the state seeing reduced growth in new captive licences and a rise in captive closures

Aon has stated that it is not pursuing an “all-share business combination” with Willis Towers Watson, following extensive speculation over a deal which would have seen the combination of two of the world’s largest insurance brokers

Guernsey is providing a captive-based solution that will offer an alternative method to manage defined benefit pension scheme risks

MAXIS GBN, Metlife and AXA’s international employee benefits EB joint venture, has appointed Ricardo Almeida as head of distribution

Marsh has appointed Robert Bauer as head of its US sharing economy and mobility practice

Two giants of the ridesharing industry, Uber and Lyft, appear to be using Hawaiian-based captive insurance companies as part of their risk management strategy

The (re)insurance industry’s first distributed ledger technology driven risk and capital exchange, called the Bermuda Insurance Exchange, is set to launch in Bermuda later this year

Marsh Ireland has made a number of changes to its leadership, appointing Joe Grogan as executive chairman and Patrick Howett as CEO

The first catastrophe bond has been issued under Singapore’s ILS regulatory regime

Spain has published a royal decree providing no-deal Brexit contingency measures for entities that provide services in the country but are domiciled in Gibraltar and the UK