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Trump extends deadline for striking Iranian energy plants to April 7
The war has massively disrupted shipping, sending crude oil prices...
US insurance program meant for Strait of Hormuz to begin soon:Scott Bessent
Scott Bessent,US Treasury Secretary Although the program was first...
DIFC’s re/insurance gross premium rises 35% to $3.5bn in 2024
The insurance and reinsurance sector also experienced robust growth, with 135 related firms now operating in the ecosystem, increasing 8% from 125 in H1 2024. During the first half of 2025, it was announced that Gross written premiums reached USD 3.5bn for 2024,...
Global natural disasters cause overall losses of around $ 131bn,insured losses at $ 80bn in H1 2025, says Munich Re
Thomas Blunck, Member of the Board of Management After the record year of 2024, the current year is again on its way to ranking among the warmest since the beginning of systematic record-keeping. Based on NOAA data, the annual average global temperatures in the first...
Volante Global appoints Demian Smith as new Group CEO
Demian Smith,CEO, Volante Global Smith joins Volante Global from Guy Carpenter where he was Head of Mutual, Agency and Captive Solutions and Co-Head of Strategic Partnerships for the past five years. Prior to Guy Carpenter, Smith was CEO of StarStone Group. LONDON:...
Insurance brokers should maintain high governance standards and business ethics: IRDAI member
Girija Subramaniam, CMD, New India Assurance Rakesh Jain, CEO, Reliance General Insurance,Satyajit Tripathy, member, Distribution, IRDAI , Naveen Chandra Jha, MD & CEO, SBI General Insurance, Abhilash Sridharan, Partner, McKinsey & Company at a panel...
AXA wins $908 million UK court ruling against Santander over protection insurance
AXA sued at London's High Court in 2021 over losses related to over 650,000 individual customer complaints about PPI policies, one of Britain's costliest retail financial scandals, with banks paying out around 40 billion pounds in compensation. LONDON: French insurer...
Munich Re CFO Christoph Jurecka to become chairman from Jan 1,2026
Jurecka has been with the Group since 2011 and will succeed Joachim Wenning. In 2019, he had joined Munich Re’s Board of Management as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Munich: Munich Re, the largest international reinsurer, on Wednesday has appointed Christoph Jurecka,...
ICICI Lombard and AWS enable seamless business continuity with automated Disaster Recovery solution
ICICI Lombard in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has completed a major upgrade of its disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure from AWS Asia- Pacific (Mumbai) Region to AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, backed by a fully automated, cloud-native setup....
FM expands footprint in India with new innovative centre in Bengaluru and sales office in Mumbai
Complementing the Bengaluru expansion, FM will also open a new sales office in Mumbai later this year. The Mumbai office will help the company strengthen its presence in the country’s financial capital, bringing it closer to key clients and decision-makers Bengaluru:...
Natural disasters like floods emerge as top reason for buying home insurance in India: Survey
The survey highlighted that 41 per cent of the respondents in last 6 months consider natural calamities such as floods, earthquakes, and storms as the primary reason to purchase home insurance. These events have made people realise the importance of securing their...
Deadly Flash Floods in Asia and U.S: Urgent need for early warnings
“Flash floods are not new, but their frequency and intensity are increasing in many regions due to rapid urbanization, land-use change, and a changing climate. Rising temperatures play a role because each additional degree Celsius of temperature increase allows the...