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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.
Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Indiana, and Michigan won reaccreditation under the NAIC's Financial Regulation Standards program during the 2026 Summer National Meeting. Here's…
AM Best's new special report finds that US insurers' Level 3 asset holdings have surged over the past decade, with the life/annuity segment and…
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to take specialty insurance marketplace Accelerant Holdings private in an all-cash transaction. The deal carries a steep…
Brazil's SUSEP-supervised insurance sector collected R$207.12 billion in revenue during the first half of 2026, up 0.52% year-on-year, while claims and payouts fell 3.93%…
The NAIC convened its 2026 Summer National Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, placing AI governance and cyber risk oversight at the center of the agenda.…
Brazil's Susep-supervised insurers posted a barely-there 0.52% nominal revenue gain in H1 2026 — a real-terms decline — even as life insurance grew in…
Six industry, business and consumer bodies have united to demand every New South Wales party commit to scrapping the Emergency Services Levy on insurance…
Corebridge Financial and Equitable Holdings shareholders approved their all-stock merger at a July 30, 2026 special meeting, clearing the path toward a combined $1.5…
Aon's Q2 2026 D&O Pricing Index shows primary policy pricing up 0.6% year over year, the first increase after sixteen straight quarters of declines,…
OJK's mid-2026 data show Indonesia's life insurance premiums growing while general insurance, reinsurance, and government-linked schemes contract, with insurers racing an end-2026 minimum capital…
