Canada Life Buy-in Signals UK Bulk Annuity Market’s Next Leg of De-risking
UK bulk purchase annuity market hit a record 367 deals in 2025, yet volume fell to £38.2bn as competition drove insurers into smaller schemes…
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Nicolas Martin
Senior reporter at InsuraBeat covering commercial and property & casualty markets, M&A, and underwriting performance across Europe and North America. Twelve years in the industry: started as an analyst on the broker side at a global reinsurance intermediary placing casualty and specialty risks for European corporates, then five years on the underwriting side at a Tier-1 European insurer, last managing D&O and cyber portfolios. Holds a Master in Reinsurance Economics and Capital Markets from the Kwang-Hwa Institute of Financial Sciences (Taipei) and is a CFA charterholder. Writes from Paris, on US morning markets.
FSC Korea Tightens AI Governance Rules for Insurers and the Financial Sector
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EIOPA 2025 Annual Report: Ten Years of Solvency II Under Pressure
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ANV Group to Buy Open Lending in $3.15-a-Share All-Cash Take-Private
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UK PRA Targets 2027 Captive Insurance Regime to Reverse Offshore Drift
UK captive insurance regime launches by mid-2027 as the PRA targets ~500 offshore captives with proportionate Solvency UK rules and no tax incentives.
Sixfold’s AI Underwriter Tests the Limits of Point-Solution Automation
Sixfold's AI Underwriter — the autonomous underwriting agent its $30M Series B was raised to build — is now in production at Skyward Specialty,…
Marsh: Cyber Extortion Events Fell 33% in 2025 as Brokers Pivot to Claims Speed
Cyber extortion events fell 33% in 2025 per Marsh data, while ten quarters of rate declines push brokers to compete on claims payment speed.
Gallagher Survey: 94% of US Business Owners Fear Coverage Gaps as Risk Integration Accelerates
Gallagher's 2026 survey of 1,000 US business owners reveals 94% fear coverage gaps — while ISO AI exclusions and a 23-point flood protection deficit…
New Zealand’s NHC Renews NZ$12.3B Record Reinsurance Tower at +20%
NHC reinsurance tower 2026 reaches a record NZ$12.3B — a 20% increase secured at cost-effective terms, with ILS capital embedded and a NZ$1.4B taxpayer…