All the headlines from our Allianz Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2020 // Axel Theis (62), member of the board of Allianz SE responsible for insurance in German-speaking countries and Central and Eastern Europe, is retiring at his own request on March 31, 2020 after more than 33 years at...
Feb 21 2020 // German insurance group Allianz announced a more ambitious profit target for this year after posting a better than expected 9.5% jump in fourth-quarter net profit on Friday.The profit increase was largely driven by an...
Feb 12 2020 // N26 GmbH, the German mobile bank backed by billionaires Peter Thiel and Li Ka-Shing, said it will end UK operations citing the country’s departure from the European Union.The Berlin-based digital bank will close UK...
Jan 28 2020 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Bianca Willauer as head Property & Specialty Lines, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective Feb. 1, 2020.In this role, Willauer will be responsible for the...
Jan 22 2020 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), the corporate insurance carrier of Allianz Group, appointed Henning Haagen as chief underwriting officer specialty and member of the board of management, subject to...
Jan 15 2020 // Cyber incidents rank for the first time as the most important business risk globally, pushing the perennial top peril, business interruption (BI), into second place, according to the ninth Allianz Risk Barometer 2020.Cyber...
Jan 10 2020 // Australia’s bushfire season has months to run and could easily surpass the most costly fire season, 2009’s Black Saturday fires in Victoria, which had a price tag of an estimated A$4.4 billion (US$3 billion),...
Jan 9 2020 // Willis Re, the reinsurance subsidiary of Willis Towers Watson, announced the appointment of Simon Buxton as managing director of its International Customised Reinsurance practice, which focuses on non-traditional...
Jan 2 2020 // Allianz Holdings plc, the U.K. subsidiary of Allianz SE, has completed its planned acquisition of the remaining 51% of LV General Insurance Group (LV GIG) from Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society (LVFS).The total...
Dec 23 2019 // Guy Carpenter & Co., the reinsurance broker and subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos., announced the appointment of Patrick Schepens as CEO of the Benelux region, effective April 2020.Schepens will be responsible for...
Dec 12 2019 // Allianz UK has launched Cyber Select, a cyber offering designed primarily for mid-corporate businesses.Cyber Select’s cover is designed to deal with the consequences of unauthorized use of IT systems and data...
Dec 4 2019 // The range of risks facing company executives, or directors and officers (D&Os), has increased significantly in recent years along with resulting insurance claims, according to a report published by Allianz Global...
Nov 15 2019 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) and Allianz Deutschland AG announced leadership changes that will take effect from Dec. 1, 2019, subject to regulatory approval.Joachim Müller, currently CEO of Allianz...
Nov 15 2019 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), the corporate insurance unit of Allianz Group, has appointed Shanil Williams as global head of Financial Lines, effective Nov. 15, 2019.He succeeds Bernard Poncin, who...
Nov 14 2019 // Allianz SE and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership focused on digitally transforming the insurance industry, making the insurance process easier while creating a better experience for insurance companies and...
Nov 8 2019 // Allianz Partners, a Henrico, Va.-based insurance company, has hired Jeff Wright as chief financial officer and Jim O’Connor as head of Operations.Wright succeeds Diane Babson, who took an assignment with another...
Nov 7 2019 // Seventeen insurers have restricted insurance services to coal projects in the past two years.A dozen insurers have adopted policies to stop all direct insurance coverage to new coal projects – among them are Allianz,...
Nov 6 2019 // German insurer Allianz SE has paid about $1 billion for part of Goldman Sachs Inc.’s stake in closely held Chinese insurer Taikang Life Insurance Co., according to people with knowledge of the matter.Goldman sold a...
Oct 17 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has filled three key leadership positions in Madrid, naming Diego Espinosa as head of Property, Juan Madrid as head of Casualty, and Tomás Blas as head of...
Oct 10 2019 // When David Schaecter was a child in Slovakia in the 1930s, he counted more than 100 people in his extended family. By the end of World War II, he alone survived. The rest had been killed in Nazi concentration camps or by...