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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.
Parametric insurance Vietnam coffee milestone: Willis and Global Parametrics confirm two payouts to Central Highlands farmers — one on drought, one on Typhoon Kalmaegi…
California FAIR Plan rate hike of 29.1% is approved for October 2026 after $2.9B–$4B in wildfire losses; 668,600 policies and $599B in exposure confirm…
Jamaica's third sovereign cat bond closes oversubscribed at a 6.75% coupon, signaling that Caribbean parametric structures have matured into a stable ILS asset class.
WTW returns to court against Howden over a five-person mega-yacht team lift-out as five global brokers test US covenants and the UK weighs a…
Nigeria's NAICOM banned Takaful-conventional coinsurance effective January 2026, forcing structural market separation in Africa's largest insurance economy before domestic Retakaful infrastructure exists.
Prudential’s $389M acquisition of 75% stake in Bharti Life signals how global insurers are using India’s new 100% FDI ceiling to consolidate underinsured growth…
Generali ECMWF climate modelling MoU integrates Copernicus data into underwriting, marking the start of a competitive data-moat race among European tier-1 insurers as climate…
2026 insured catastrophe losses are tracking toward the third-highest annual total on record, driven by secondary perils as reinsurance pricing softens 14.7% at January…
Thailand OIC motor insurance mandate from Jan 2026 requires named-driver policies and e-Custodian filing with behavior-linked premiums up to 40% discount.
Iran maritime insurance platform Hormuz Safe offers bitcoin-settled tanker coverage in Hormuz, bypassing SWIFT and OFAC after war-risk premiums spiked 40x.
