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Risk Management

Aon and Guy Carpenter partner with The Institutes RiskStream, to streamline the reinsurance placement process

“Distributed ledger technology has the potential to decrease costs, simplify processes and increase data security across all areas of risk management, and reinsurance, in particular, stands to benefit significantly from this technology,” said Christopher McDaniel, President of The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative. “The best solution for the market and for reinsurance buyers is to build a successful solution alongside brokers, reinsurers and carriers. Each has a vital role to play and DLT can provide efficiencies to all participants.”

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Cyber Insurance growth slows down in US, records reaching $2 Billion in 2018, Fitch

Standalone cyber insurance premiums grew 12% in 2018, according to insurer statutory financial data. Fitch said high profile cyber events and previous uncertainty around cyber terms in commercial insurance policies continue to demonstrate the need for coverage. Insurers are addressing silent cyber risks by adding affirmative coverage in policies, including sublimits and cyber endorsements, but these efforts vary widely among individual companies.

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Bank of England fires warning shot to insurers over capital, Libor

The BoE and the Financial Conduct Authority have written to the chief executives of insurers and banks, asking them to spell out their preparations for effectively ditching the use of Libor by the end of 2021.The BoE wants insurers to reference its overnight rate SONIA in contracts and balance sheet assessments after banks were fined billions of pounds for trying to rig Libor.

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