NAIC’s Columbus Meeting Puts AI Oversight and Cyber Rules on the Agenda
The NAIC convened its 2026 Summer National Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, placing AI governance and cyber risk oversight at the center of the agenda.…
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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.
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