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ANALYSIS: D&O

With businesses everywhere focused on how to stay afloat amid a global pandemic the issue of securing certain types of insurance coverage has become a vexed one.

Analysis: Covid-19

Amid the media hyperbole around coronavirus, the indications that this crisis will significantly change the way we work are already showing in the (re)insurance sector

ANALYSIS: Coronavirus

It’s not just the financial markets and the political currency of leaders of nations succumbing to coronavirus that are taking a beating – the (re)insurance sector also faces some pain

Market Profile

MARKET PROFILE: Germany

German cedants are increasingly looking to facultative reinsurance as a more reliable way of easing the loss burden, writes Helen Yates

MARKET PROFILE: Australia

Bushfires, the coronavirus and continuing fallout from the Hayne Royal Commission review have placed the (re)insurance sector in Australia under fierce scrutiny in recent months, writes Helen Yates

Sector Profile

SECTOR PROFILE: Trade credit

The coronavirus pandemic has caused the sharpest economic downturn in living memory, prompting governments to backstop the trade credit market against systemic risk. David Benyon reports

SECTOR PROFILE: EIL

As a low-frequency, high-severity risk, environmental impairment liability has remained relatively profitable in the years since Deepwater Horizon, finds David Benyon

Personal Profile

PROFILE: Michael Papworth

Miller’s Michael Papworth remains a fac broker at heart and is bullish about the future of fac in today’s reinsurance market

PROFILE: BMS

With the company’s independence guaranteed by BCI and PCP’s recent investment, the BMS fac team says it is in an “advantageous position” to exploit market consolidation.

Fac Comment

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The new better

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