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Feds Are Eyeing Captives Tapping Terrorism Backstop, Again

Feds Are Eyeing Captives Tapping Terrorism Backstop, Again

No Catastrophe Expansion “At Any Price”: Axis Capital’s Benchimol

No Catastrophe Expansion “At Any Price”: Axis Capital’s Benchimol

Arch May Put Brakes on Buybacks In Favor of Reinsurance

Arch May Put Brakes on Buybacks In Favor of Reinsurance

Australia Building Blast Models for Terrorism Reinsurance Program

Australia Building Blast Models for Terrorism Reinsurance Program

Euro Insurers Are Absorbing More Systemic Than Ever

Euro Insurers Are Absorbing More Systemic Than Ever

Small Insurers Shunning Terrorism Reinsurance

Small Insurers Shunning Terrorism Reinsurance

Few Banks Carry the Majority of Europe’s Increasing Climate Risk: ECB

Few Banks Carry the Majority of Europe’s Increasing Climate Risk: ECB

Lloyd’s Cuts NRA D&O Cover

Lloyd’s Cuts NRA D&O Cover

Feeling Burned, PG&E Proposes $1B Exit From Private Market

Feeling Burned, PG&E Proposes $1B Exit From Private Market

Reinsurers, Insurers Balk at SEC’s Climate Reporting Direction

Reinsurers, Insurers Balk at SEC’s Climate Reporting Direction

Lemonade Sours On Risk Concentration

Lemonade Sours On Risk Concentration

California “Extreme Heat” Reinsurance Pool, Cat Model Pivot Pushed

California “Extreme Heat” Reinsurance Pool, Cat Model Pivot Pushed

$35B Catastrophe Would Be a “Tipping Point” for Canadian Insurers

$35B Catastrophe Would Be a “Tipping Point” for Canadian Insurers

Oscar Is Cutting Buffett Reinsurance Spend

Oscar Is Cutting Buffett Reinsurance Spend

Insurers Should Focus On Range of Climate Scenarios With New Model: RMS

Insurers Should Focus On Range of Climate Scenarios With New Model: RMS

Verisk Revenue Slows as Cat Bond Market Consolidates

Verisk Revenue Slows as Cat Bond Market Consolidates

Task Force Calls for Biden Administration to Create Ransomware Insurance “War Chest”

Task Force Calls for Biden Administration to Create Ransomware Insurance “War Chest”

BoE Climate Model Push to Launch in June

BoE Climate Model Push to Launch in June

Buffett, Jain Speak the Hard Truth About Insurance

Buffett, Jain Speak the Hard Truth About Insurance

New Zealand Developing Ash Fall Model

New Zealand Developing Ash Fall Model

Offshore Hedge Fund, PE Reinsurers Push Back Against Tax Rule

Offshore Hedge Fund, PE Reinsurers Push Back Against Tax Rule

Catastrophe Q&A: Researcher

Catastrophe Q&A: Researcher

TWIA Mulling Model, Broker Revamp

TWIA Mulling Model, Broker Revamp

Bank Climate Model “Data Gaps” Requires Investment: BIS

Bank Climate Model “Data Gaps” Requires Investment: BIS

Catastrophe Q&A: Researcher

Catastrophe Q&A: Researcher

Fund Risk Bets: KKR, American Financial Group

Fund Risk Bets: KKR, American Financial Group

Regulators Burn PG&E’s Wildfire Model

Regulators Burn PG&E’s Wildfire Model

Mitsui Sumitomo Readies Multi- Billion Insurtech Fund for Buying Spree

Mitsui Sumitomo Readies Multi- Billion Insurtech Fund for Buying Spree

Federal, State Lawmakers Target Insurers in Climate Change Push

Federal, State Lawmakers Target Insurers in Climate Change Push

Models Set for NFIP Roll Out, But Political Pushback Continues

Models Set for NFIP Roll Out, But Political Pushback Continues

China Re’s Goal: Underwrite Belt and Road

China Re’s Goal: Underwrite Belt and Road

Archegos Ties to Modeling and Insurance

Archegos Ties to Modeling and Insurance

GIC Re Puts Model Out for Bid as Privatization Talk Heats Up

GIC Re Puts Model Out for Bid as Privatization Talk Heats Up

Insurers Have a Model Diversity Problem

Insurers Have a Model Diversity Problem

Greenlight CEO Throws Models Under the Bus Over Texas Losses

Greenlight CEO Throws Models Under the Bus Over Texas Losses

Australia Balks at Government-Backed Reinsurance Fund

Australia Balks at Government-Backed Reinsurance Fund

Firms Make Pitch for California Wildfire Model Adoption

Firms Make Pitch for California Wildfire Model Adoption

Hurricane Models Missing Key Ingredient: Research

Hurricane Models Missing Key Ingredient: Research

ESG Pivot Turning Into a Hard Sell for ILS Managers

ESG Pivot Turning Into a Hard Sell for ILS Managers

Models Are Making The BC Market “Unhealthy”

Models Are Making The BC Market “Unhealthy”

How To Make It Really Rain After a Wildfire

How To Make It Really Rain After a Wildfire

Locked and Loaded

Locked and Loaded

Private Market Recoveries Fuel Japan Quake Comeback

Private Market Recoveries Fuel Japan Quake Comeback

US Leads the World In Storm Losses

US Leads the World In Storm Losses

Critical "Fault" In Quake Models

Critical "Fault" In Quake Models

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Feds Are Eyeing Captives Tapping Terrorism Backstop, Again

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No Catastrophe Expansion “At Any Price”: Axis Capital’s Benchimol

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Arch May Put Brakes on Buybacks In Favor of Reinsurance

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California Passes $20M “Controlled Burn” Insurance Backstop

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Australia Building Blast Models for Terrorism Reinsurance Program

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