All the headlines from our Canada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 29 2017 // Markel International, the specialist insurer and subsidiary of Markel Corp., is aiming to develop its trade credit and political risk business in Canada. Business will be underwritten by Markel Canada on Lloyd’s...
Mar 22 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) introduced its Professional First Professional Liability and Network Security & Privacy Policy and announced it has appointed Geoffrey Kendrick as head of Professional...
Mar 22 2017 // JLT Re, the London-based reinsurance broker and consultancy, has combined forces with flood modeling company, KatRisk, to enhance its flood risk modeling capabilities for clients across Canada.Berkeley, Calif.-based...
Mar 17 2017 // Private equity firm KKR and Canadian pension fund Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) agreed to buy USI Insurance Services from Onex Corp. in a $4.3 billion deal, including debt.The deal is the latest in a...
Mar 17 2017 // Canada’s Eagle Underwriting Group Inc. has teamed up with MS Amlin Marine NV, trading as RaetsMarine, to offer protection & indemnity (P&I) and charterers’ liability insurance in the Canadian marine...
Mar 13 2017 // OutsideIQ, a Canadian startup which uses cognitive computing to analyze data, is partnering with the world’s largest business commerce network, SAP Ariba , to help corporations quickly screen vendors for risk and...
Mar 1 2017 // Canada-based Echelon Financial Holdings Inc. announced it has received regulatory approval from the Danish Financial Services Authority for the sale of its European operations.This completes the necessary regulatory...
Feb 27 2017 // British and Canadian regulators have signed an agreement to make it easier for financial technology companies to expand in each other’s markets, they said on Wednesday.The agreement between the UK’s Financial...
Feb 23 2017 // Canadian Broker Network (CBN), Canada’s network of independent insurance brokers, has appointed Mike Robinson, president and CEO, PBL Insurance Ltd., as chairman.Robinson succeeds Tim Miller, president of Capri...
Feb 22 2017 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group has combined US-Reports and Canadian Reports, rebranding both companies under the name Afirm, which is based in Fort Collins, Colo. The merger will continue their global presence and allow a...
Feb 6 2017 // Beazley is expanding its presence in Canada with the acquisition of the specialist managing general agent, Creechurch Underwriters. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Since its founding in 1996,...
Feb 1 2017 // Chubb Insurance Co. of Canada has launched an array of complimentary services for its high net worth and family office customers.Signature Suite™ is designed to help protect and enhance affluent lifestyles by providing...
Feb 1 2017 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry catastrophe insurance data, has announced that it has entered a strategic alliance with Toronto-based Catastrophe Indices & Quantification Inc....
Jan 31 2017 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group and Burns & Wilcox Canada announced they have acquired the high-value homeowner’s insurance practice from Quebec-based XN Financial Services Inc. (XN).A managing general agent and...
Jan 27 2017 // Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System agreed to invest $1 billion to back the $4.8 billion acquisition by Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of insurer Allied World Assurance Co.The investment will...
Jan 25 2017 // Zurich North America has announced the name of its new North America Commercial Insurance unit and leadership team. This new unit brings together the former Commercial Markets and the former Global Corporate in North...
Jan 25 2017 // Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is close to announcing a deal that would see one of Canada’s largest pension funds contribute $1 billion in financing toward its acquisition of insurer Allied World...
Jan 23 2017 // President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old U.S. tilt toward free trade by signing an executive order to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that was never ratified and promising to renegotiate the North...
Jan 20 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.When assessing earthquake risk in Canada, many commonly refer to ‘The Big One’ that will eventually strike British Columbia (B.C.). But what exactly is...
Jan 20 2017 // Fairfax Financial Holdings is in early talks to sell 25 percent of India’s largest private general insurer ICICI Lombard in a deal that could fetch up to $1 billion, as the Canadian firm looks to cash out and start a...