Aon has expanded Mr Vlad Bobko's responsibilities to include Global Head of Strategy for Political Risk, War Risk and Crisis Management for Risk Capital, in addition to his current role as CEO of Central and Eastern Europe and Nordics.
Global insurers delivered strong premium growth and improved profitability in 2025, but the industry's recent gains are largely cyclical and mask unresolved challenges that it confronts, according to new research released by Bain & Company.
The government of Zambia has used a $600m loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, coupled with its own resources, to buy back a $1.36bn sovereign Eurobond.
The first half of 2026 marked the fifth consecutive quarter without a single insured CAT loss exceeding $10bn, reflecting a period of relatively benign loss activity for the global insurance industry.
DUAL Group, an MGA, has launched its global transactional risk offering with long-term backing led by Liberty.
AI has moved from enabling attackers to operating attacks, running live intrusions with minimal human direction, compressing the time defenders have to respond and opening new attack surfaces across an enterprise, even as companies adopt technology at a pace that outstrips that of governance controls.
InsurTech Duck Creek Technologies has acquired Send Technology Solutions, an AI-native underwriting orchestration engine serving commercial, specialty and complex risk markets.
Everest Group has promoted Mr Craig Hanrahan to the role of Global Distribution and Chief Commercial Officer, effective 1 August 2026.
Active Capital Reinsurance (Active Re), a global reinsurer headquartered in Barbados, has announced that it closed 2025 with a combined ratio of 88.4% (2024: 94.5%), return on equity of 16.1% (2024: 17.3%), technical result of $26.7m (2024: $20m), and total equity of $108m (2024: $100.3m).