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Reinsurance News spoke with Oak Global Founder and CEO Cathal Carr around RVS 2026 in Monte Carlo, with the discussion focusing on how the reinsurance business is using the Lloyd’s market, technology and artificial intelligence to support its growth strategy. Oak Global is a Lloyd’s-focused reinsurance business operating through two syndicates, with Carr saying the…
After two and a half years away from our screens, Guy Ritchie’s TV spin-off of his 2019 film The Gentlemen is back with more shoot-outs, swearing and eccentric characters. In its second outing, the eight-part Netflix series once again centres around Theo James’ Eddie, after he inherits his family’s country estate and discovers it’s home…
Reinsurance broker Howden Re has said that a substantial deterioration in underwriting or financial conditions would be required to reverse the reinsurance market’s current softening momentum. The firm has released its Pre-Monte Carlo Report, “Breaking the Glass”, highlighting that the reinsurance market enters the final months of 2026 from a position of considerable strength. Pricing…
The pioneering activist and writer Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. On Thursday morning, her spokesperson confirmed that the feminist trailblazer had died “peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her” a day earlier. Paying tribute, they wrote on Instagram: “Gloria’s near-century on…
In a statement accompanying Lloyd’s H1 2026 results, Chief Executive Patrick Tiernan suggested that addressing challenges such as the protection and perception gaps will require the full power of the Lloyd’s market to be harnessed to manage risks that others cannot, moving beyond isolated innovations in products, capital or structures to make innovation the market’s…
After record-breaking temperatures swept the UK and Europe this year, it’s fair to say next summer will likely be even worse due to a climate phenomenon called El Niño. The phenomenon develops every few years, and involves the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean becoming hotter than normal, according to Professor Bill McGuire, a professor…
Corgi Insurance, the AI-native, full-stack insurer, has launched Corgi Re, a reinsurance platform designed to bring underwriting technology, speed, and operational efficiency to the reinsurance market. With this launch, Corgi is expanding its role in the insurance industry to provide capacity and risk management solutions to insurers themselves. Corgi Re combines Corgi’s technology-driven market approach,…
Re/insurers that view artificial intelligence (AI) as a capacity creator rather than simply a cost-reduction tool can unlock greater value from the technology, according to Martin Henley, CEO of mea Platform. In an interview with Reinsurance News ahead of the annual Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo, Henley emphasised that using AI to reduce costs…
Katie Price is remaining tight-lipped about the status of her relationship with her husband Lee Andrews, but she has shared a cryptic message about where her priorities lie. On Wednesday, it was widely reported that the former glamour model and reality star had filed for divorce after around seven tumultuous months of marriage. The Sun…
Helen Wilson has joined The Fidelis Partnership from Hannover Re to serve as Reinsurance Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), as Sarah Ching joins the firm from MS Amlin as Senior Underwriter, International Property. Wilson brings more than two decades of reinsurance underwriting, catastrophe modelling, analytics and business transformation experience to her new role. She joins from…