All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 1 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Swiss-based reinsurer Converium AG and its long-term insurer financial strength ratings...
Feb 23 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said in a new report that the risk management practices and internal control policies of Japan’s insurers are coming under increasing scrutiny following a series of...
Feb 22 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its “BBB” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Oslo-based non-life insurer Bluewater Insurance ASA. S&P also...
Feb 22 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that its ratings and outlook on Russian reinsurer Moscow Reinsurance Co. (Moscow Re), rated “B+” with a stable outlook, are unchanged following...
Feb 20 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its Lloyd’s Syndicate Assessment (LSA) on London-based Novae – Syndicate 2007 to ‘2+’ from ‘2’ and assigned a stable...
Feb 19 2007 // France’s SCOR Group announced that it has acquired 32.9 percent of the share capital of Swiss-based reinsurer Converium Holding AG.SCOR said it “strongly believes that the combination of Converium and SCOR is a...
Feb 15 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has withdrawn its “AA” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Spain’s Mapfre Mutualidad de Seguros y Reaseguros a Prima Fija...
Feb 14 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its “AA-” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Italy’s Toro Assicurazioni SpA with a stable...
Feb 14 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has withdrawn its “AA-” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on U.S.-based GE Reinsurance Corp. S&P said it...
Feb 13 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has “revised its senior secured debt ratings on Atlantic & Western Re Ltd.’s Class A notes to ‘D’ from ‘BB’ and Class...
Feb 9 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has placed a CreditWatch with negative implications on its “BB” rating on the $150 million principal at-risk variable-rate notes issued by Eurus Ltd.“The...
Feb 5 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has placed its “BBB” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Oslo-based non-life insurer Bluewater Insurance ASA on CreditWatch with...
Jan 31 2007 // Despite growing financial losses in various business sectors from climate change, over half of the nation’s 500 largest publicly traded companies are doing a poor job of disclosing climate change risks to their...
Jan 30 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has placed its “A” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Luxembourg-based marine insurer British Marine Luxembourg S.A. (BM) on...
Jan 30 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Norway-based marine insurer Assuranceforeningen Gard – gjensidig – (Gard...
Jan 29 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services reported that it has preliminarily reviewed its Lloyd’s Syndicate Assessment (LSA) coverage for 2007. S&P said it will “undertake a full review of the LSAs...
Jan 26 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook to negative from stable on the counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings of German life insurer Nürnberger Lebensversicherung AG (NLV)...
Jan 26 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Italy’s composite insurer Società Cattolica di Assicurazione to...
Jan 26 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Gibraltar-based non-life insurer Southern Rock Insurance Co. Ltd. to “BB”...
Jan 22 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its “BBB” long-term subordinated debt rating on the $600 million 7.249 percent perpetual, subordinated, callable, fixed-/floating-rate, noncumulative...