All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its long-term counterparty credit rating on Spain’s insurance holding company Mapfre S.A. to “A+” from “AA-.” S&P also lowered...
Jul 5 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Italian composite insurance group Fondiaria-SAI SpA and its core subsidiary, Milano...
Jul 5 2007 // The Hong Kong office of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued a report affirming the stable outlook on most of the insurance markets in the Asia-Pacific region. “They reflect strengthening balance...
Jun 28 2007 // Kathleen A. Corbet, President of Standard & Poor’s, told the audience at its second annual European Insurance Symposium that the insurance sector is at a critical point, with the move to greater transparency,...
Jun 26 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘B’ senior secured debt rating to the $75 million class A, series 2007-I principal-at-risk variable-rate notes issued under the newly established...
Jun 25 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services’ Insurance 2007 conference, held June 3-5 in New York City, has yielded some valuable advice from three industry leaders on how to properly employ models.S&P noted...
Jun 21 2007 // Bermuda’s Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that it has received approval from Lloyd’s for the commencement of trading on July 1, 2007 of a new Syndicate, to be known as Montpelier Syndicate 5151, pseudonym...
Jun 21 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Oslo-based marine insurer Assuranceforeningen SKULD (Gjensidig) (Skuld or the club) to...
Jun 20 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has “affirmed its ‘BBB+’ preferred stock rating on PartnerRe Ltd.; its ‘BBB’ preferred stock ratings on ACE Ltd. and...
Jun 20 2007 // Among other industry topics Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services’ 2007 Insurance Conference, “In Pursuit of Sustainable Earnings,” held June 3-5 in New York City, discussed possible...
Jun 20 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised to “AA-” from “A+” its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on the various operating entities of Swiss-based...
Jun 20 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that its ‘CC’ senior secured debt rating on KAMP RE 2005 Ltd.’s $190 million floating-rate principal-at-risk notes are remaining on CreditWatch with...
Jun 15 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings on Hong Kong’s Pacific Century Insurance Co. Ltd. (PCI) to “BBB+” from...
Jun 15 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its “A” junior subordinated long-term debt rating on the €1.5 billion ($2 billion) undated, subordinated, fixed-to-floating rate bonds issued by...
Jun 15 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A+” (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of Los Angeles-based Mercury Casualty Group and its members. Best also...
Jun 12 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services will hold a telephone conference call today, June 12, 2007, at 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, 4:00 PM U.K. Time, to present an overview of its ratings outlooks for the U.S....
Jun 12 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on the core subsidiaries of France’s insurance and asset management group AXA to...
Jun 12 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said it has affirmed its “A” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Exchange and its operating subsidiaries and...
Jun 11 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘A-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to PARIS RE (France) and PARIS RE Switzerland Ltd. At the same time,...
Jun 8 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it is “undertaking a review of the preference stock and other hybrid equity issues of the following seven insurers and reinsurers: ACE Ltd....