All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2022 // Swiss Re announced that Ivan Gonzalez has been appointed CEO Reinsurance China and China country president with effect from July 1, 2022. He will relocate from New York to Beijing.Katie McGrath will succeed Ivan as...
Mar 18 2022 // Swiss Re, the world’s second biggest reinsurer, said it would increase the number of oil and gas producers for which it refuses cover, following mounting pressure on big business to help the drive to curb a global...
Mar 14 2022 // Allianz and Swiss Re said on Monday they were cutting back on Russian business as European financial institutions turn their backs on Russia.The German insurer and Swiss reinsurer join banks Deutsche, Goldman Sachs and...
Feb 24 2022 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions announced it has filed an application with regulators to establish a new Canadian branch of North American Specialty Insurance Co. (NAS) and transfer operations to that branch, including new...
Feb 2 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, Chubb and Marsh.A summary of these new hires follows here. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Promotes 2 in Engineering &...
Dec 22 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Definity Financial Corp., SCOR and Marsh.A summary of these new hires follows here. Definity Appoints Former Swiss Re Exec Schmid to Board of...
Dec 16 2021 // Swiss Re announced the appointment of Pravina Ladva as group chief digital & technology officer and member of the group executive committee, effective Jan. 1, 2022. Group Chief Operating Officer Anette Bronder will...
Dec 14 2021 // Extreme weather events in 2021, including a deep winter freeze, floods, severe thunderstorms, heatwaves and a major hurricane, resulted in estimated annual insured losses from natural catastrophes of US$105 billion, the...
Dec 14 2021 // Billionaire Richard Li’s FWD Group Ltd. raised more than $1.4 billion in private placements with investors including an insurer backed by Apollo Global Management Inc.The investors include Apollo’s Athene...
Dec 10 2021 // Swiss Re announced it has agreed to sell its life insurance subsidiary Elips Life AG (elipsLife) to Swiss Life International and to enter into a long-term reinsurance partnership for elipsLife’s in-force and new...
Nov 19 2021 // Swiss Re and Chinese tech giant Baidu are teaming up to further develop the autonomous driving industry, announced Swiss Re.The partnership between Swiss Re and Baidu aims to further develop the autonomous driving industry...
Nov 19 2021 // TORONTO – Insurer Definity Financial Corp jumped as much as 36% on its stock market debut on Thursday after raising C$2.1 billion ($1.6 billion) in Canada’s second-largest IPO.Waterloo, Ontario-based Definity...
Nov 17 2021 // Strong growth and record premiums are projected for the global insurance industry, as demand for risk protection increases, according to Swiss Re Institute’s latest sigma study.The global insurance market is set to...
Nov 16 2021 // The Geneva Association announced that Christian Mumenthaler, CEO of Swiss Re, was appointed the new chairman of the organization. Mumenthaler, who has been vice chairman since November 2019, succeeds outgoing Chairman...
Oct 29 2021 // Reinsurance company Swiss Re said on Friday it swung to a better-than-expected net profit in the first nine months as it recovers from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic despite big claims from major storms on both...
Oct 25 2021 // Digital insurer Getsafe has received its insurance license from Germany’s financial regulator, BaFin. The license will allow Getsafe to accelerate its expansion to the rest of Europe.“The license is a...
Oct 6 2021 // On an industry level, Swiss Re now estimates that total insured market losses from Hurricane Ida to be in the range of $28–30 billion, excluding federal flood insurance losses.Hurricane Ida, the second-most intense...
Oct 5 2021 // Swiss Re estimated total insured market losses of the insurance industry due to the July floods in Europe at approximately US$12 billion.The insurer also updated its own loss estimate for the July floods at approximately...
Oct 5 2021 // On an industry level, Swiss Re now estimates that total insured market losses from Hurricane Ida to be in the range of $28–30 billion, excluding federal flood insurance losses.Hurricane Ida, the second-most intense...
Sep 23 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker Howden and two Lloyd’s insurers: Apollo Syndicate Management and Atrium Underwriting.A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden...