All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 13 2015 // Litmus Analysis announced that Karin Clemens, the former head of S&P’s European insurance rating practice, is joining Litmus. She “will bring even further experience in ratings to the Litmus team, working...
Apr 10 2015 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk management firm, has released updated RMS Europe windstorm models and North Atlantic hurricane models.The 15.0 RMS Europe Windstorm Models’ hazard and vulnerability...
Apr 8 2015 // Insurers based in the United Kingdom underwriting a material amount of European business should be monitoring the potential consequences of the United Kingdom exiting or renegotiating its position within the European Union...
Apr 7 2015 // It’s been a long process, but, according to Paul Fisher, deputy head of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), who supervises insurance and regulatory risk, the introduction of the...
Apr 6 2015 // London-based QBE European Operations, which is part of QBE Insurance Group, has appointed Nick Menear as director of underwriting operations, effective April 1. In this new role, Menear is responsible for fostering...
Apr 6 2015 // Major European reinsurers have posted very strong full-year results for 2014 and continue to be well capitalized, with profitable underwriting results due to the absence of sizable natural catastrophes and ongoing reserve...
Apr 6 2015 // The German aviation authority did not know about co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s medical background prior to the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people, it told Reuters on Sunday, raising more questions over medical...
Apr 6 2015 // AXA SA, France’s biggest insurer, said plans to impose tighter capital rules on too-big-to-fail insurers will pose a new hurdle to European growth and do little to bolster financial stability.Insurance companies...
Apr 2 2015 // Generali has strengthened its international management team with two new managers joining the group to lead Asia and the Americas and a new appointment in Europe, effective April 1.Jack Howell is the new Asia regional...
Apr 1 2015 // AIR Worldwide reports that extra-tropical cyclone Niklas, currently battering northern Europe with gale-force winds, “is reportedly one of the worst storms to affect Germany in recent years. High winds and heavy...
Mar 31 2015 // ACE Group has created a new business unit – ACE International Excess (AIE)– to provide commercial property insurance on an excess basis for large companies in the Asia Pacific region.The new business unit will be...
Mar 30 2015 // When it comes to world trade, a 17-day shortcut trumps terror, piracy and now bombs.That’s the time a supertanker saves by using the Bab el-Mandeb waterway that skirts Yemen at the southern tip of the Arabian...
Mar 27 2015 // In the U.S., this past year has had more than enough reminders of how weather can affect our lives.California is heading into its fourth year of drought because it didn’t get enough snow. Boston is just emerging from...
Mar 27 2015 // Conflict in Yemen risks spilling out into the busy sea lanes that pass it and potentially disrupt the narrow Bab el-Mandeb passage through which nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily to Europe, the United...
Mar 26 2015 // A study, – “Financial repression: The unintended consequences -” released by Swiss Re, notes that “seven years after the financial crisis, central banks are still keeping interest rates at historically...
Mar 25 2015 // Swiss Re has just released its sigma report on catastrophe losses for 2014, which confirms that total global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were around $110 billion, compared to global...
Mar 24 2015 // An Airbus A320 crash in southern France may have claimed the lives of all 150 people on board, in what would be the worst air accident on French soil in decades.Germanwings Flight 9525 operated by the low-cost subsidiary...
Mar 24 2015 // Gulf Stream water currents in the Atlantic Ocean have slowed to the weakest in as long as 1,000 years, threatening shifts in U.S. and European weather, as well as coastal sea levels including in New York and Boston.The...
Mar 20 2015 // The Bank of England said on Friday that it would apply new European Union insurance regulations “proportionately,” following industry fears that the central bank might seek to add extra rules for companies...
Mar 18 2015 // ACE Group has launched ACE Travel Smart, a new mobile app, as part of its business travel insurance proposition for Europe-based businesses with international exposures.According to ACE research, 86 percent of European...