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The organisation is the UK’s oldest continuously active military charity. -
The proportion of freehold capacity for 2026 is up by 35% to £218mn.
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Zurich’s interest in a specialty carrier that moves the dial on cyber is no surprise.
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Following on from Part I, we look at the hazards to navigate in building internationally from Lloyd’s.
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Lloyd's said Jim Bichard's experience included advice on innovative capital structures.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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Chaucer and Beazley are among the syndicates looking to take on new geographies.
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The Corporation ranked in the bottom quartile in last year’s survey.
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The facility is backed by a consortium including Arch, Munich Re Specialty and Scor.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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Jen Tan was most recently head of portfolio strategy.
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What is the strategic thinking behind The Fidelis Partnership’s unique business model?
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Almost 90% of respondents felt they could be themselves at work.
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The executive spent a year as Ki Syndicate 1618 active underwriter.
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The executive is leaving her role as HDI Global UK and Ireland CEO.
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Smart-follow capacity has ballooned but that doesn’t mean key facilities will keep growing.
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The company will manage Octave-backed syndicates 4242 and 1416.
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Syndicate 3705 adds to the MGA’s roster of capacity providers.
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The PVT market saw falling rates and several risk losses during 2025.
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The executive replaces Andrew Brooks, who served two consecutive terms.
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Carrier M&A will continue to be a feature, as pressure for returns on AI investment ramps up.
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Insurance Insider looks at key drivers of supply-demand dynamics in global specialty markets.
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A roundup of all the news you need, including Tim Cook retiring from his role as head of construction at Apollo.
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Patel was recognised for services to charity and Riley for business leadership and inclusion
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Insurance Insider reflects on the themes that shaped 2025 for the London market.
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K2’s CUO Parth Patel will serve as the SPA’s active underwriter as it was granted permission to underwrite for 1.1.
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The fund has signed up Oliver Hemsley and Peter Montanaro to its board.
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The company said the move was a key part of its risk-diversification strategy.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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Market sources have also raised the prospect of moving the market beyond bureau reliance.
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The SPV will underwrite a “broad and highly diversified” portion of Amwins’ ~$6bn delegated authority premiums.
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What were the defining moments that shaped the insurance market in 2025?
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Transactions reveal the attractiveness of the "underwriting plus" business model.
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Andrew Ealey joined Canopius in 2010 as a property treaty underwriter.
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The newly created role will have responsibility for algorithmic and digital distribution channels.
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The six D&I partner networks already derive most of their funding from other sources.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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How do you harmonise distribution strategies in a rapidly evolving marketplace?
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The syndicate will be managed by Polo Managing Agency.
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Oaktree will fund the syndicate and act as investment manager for its assets.
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The review found an unrelated breach over the CEO failing to log a journey on a private jet.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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One critical sticking point for Lloyd’s is the true alignment of interest with the market.
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The underwriter has spent 30 years in fine art insurance.
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The Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA), setting out its “core asks” for 2026, has said it is expecting the market to achieve multiple peer-to-peer technology adoptions next year.
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The transaction is expected to close early in the first quarter of 2026.
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Smaller syndicates are lifting their share of the market, as the top quartile also returned to growth.
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The chief of market performance urged underwriters not to follow the herd.
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Six of the 10 largest syndicates remained flat or reported de-emptions.
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Lower rates and currency shifts have pushed syndicates to cut stamp.
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Nobody likes flying in turbulence, and in recent years aviation insurers have faced their fair share of upheaval.
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The chief of market performance urged syndicates not to “pull forwards” tougher conditions by chasing topline.
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The syndicate was launched at Lloyd’s last year.
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Simon Mason will continue to support the business through the upcoming reinsurance renewals.
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The system is designed to pay claims faster as well as improving capital efficiency.
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The association has teamed up with Lloyd’s on a women’s underwriting summit.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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The developments this week thrust culture issues up the agenda for new leadership.
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Sheila Cameron called on Lloyd’s to “accelerate” its commitment to behavioural change.
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Aegis, Beazley and others are among those cutting stamps.
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Whether Rebekah Clement's promotion was influenced by an inappropriate relationship is in scope.
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The Australian insurer is a major cat cedant and had hoped to set up a reinsurance syndicate.
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At our London conference, executives saw various routes to growth, even as headwinds grow.
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Sharp will remain for the 2026 renewal process, before pursuing a new opportunity in the market.
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The syndicate aims to write £80mn of programme business in 2026.
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Several PE-backed syndicates were recently sold, but some of the fastest-growing businesses remain up for grabs.
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Apollo CEO David Ibeson was also in the running for a seat on Council.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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Innovation emerged as the critical target for attracting new business to London.
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What does it take to build a reinsurer that can manage volatility?
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Panellists said recent M&A has not yet led to transformative change for the market.
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This publication revealed Volante was in talks with legacy players last month.
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Patrick Tiernan was addressing 400+ delegates at the London Market Conference.
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From top-line challenges to finding new ways to scale, 2025 has been a year of market shifts.
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The move to launch a second syndicate was reported by Insurance Insider in June.
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Liès called for the industry to have a louder voice to promote greater insurance literacy across sectors.
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An insurability crisis could pose systemic risks that undermine the foundations of finance.
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The hedge fund had significant investment aims for the London market.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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The consortium will target excess layers, providing $250mn of capacity.
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The CEO said smart-follow is a structural evolution of the specialty market.
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APAC now represents roughly 15% of all Lloyd’s premium.
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The business has not initiated a sale process, with the wheels not yet actively turning on an exit for Apiary.
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Prices were 37.4p per £1 of capacity, according to Argenta.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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The syndicate is expected to write ~$300mn of business in 2026.
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Starr’s reinsurance ambitions and embrace of Lloyd’s will be watched closely.
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How do struggling governments across the globe tackle stagnating economic growth?
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This publication revealed that Starr was zeroing in on the deal earlier today.
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The parties could announce the transaction soon, according to sources.
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The start-up has struggled to build scale since its 2024 launch and has cut back its 2026 stamp.
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Brokers may encourage clients to capitalise on falling rates by boosting coverage.
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The MGU’s second syndicate launch was delayed from January 2025.
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Private capital providers are being signed down as two strong years have piqued interest.
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The number of syndicates traded at auction was the highest for a decade.
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Lloyd’s investment vehicles have been shelved in past years but a strong run of returns is creating interest.
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Sam Geddes will join Syndicate 1918 next year in an executive leadership role.
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The company noted tougher market conditions and higher large losses during the year.
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The traditionally lucrative class has faced a series of challenges in the latest geopolitical crisis.
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The hire follows the departure of David Martin to GIC Re Syndicate.
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Christopher Reynolds and AJ Jones have been hired as business development directors.
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The syndicate says it will not set any top-line targets on digital follow strategies.
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The two lines will add £11mn in planned premium.
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As two working member vacancies are arising on the Council, a ballot will be held.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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IGI’s premium income has almost doubled since it listed in 2020, but how can growth still be achieved in a soft market?
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Rachel Turk was speaking on an Aon Reinsurance Renewal Season panel.
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Ark has been adding new product lines across its three Lloyd’s syndicates.
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Differentiating Lloyd’s claims performance could help drive business to the market.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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Incumbent Jane Warren will retire at the end of the year.
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Without flexible mechanisms the Corporation risks suppressing transactions.
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The specialty insurer was recently acquired by Korean carrier DB Insurance.
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It comes as the MGA expects to write more than $1bn of premium in 2026.
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The former civil servant joined the Corporation in October 2021.
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Jo Smart has worked for Torus and Aegis during his two decades in the market.
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Volante launched Syndicate 1699 in 2021.
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Inigo CEO Richard Watson said the team is ready for its “second album”.
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What’s driving the wave of shifting ownership structures in the Lloyd’s market?
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The upcoming Lloyd’s Lab cohort 16 will include a dedicated Irish theme.
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Several airlines are understood to have come to market early.
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Legacy reinsurance deals will be reviewed by the Legacy Review Panel.
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The Lloyd’s investment business has cut expenses by 54% over the past six months.
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The deal will be watched closely by Radian’s handful of similar peers.
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The pair hail from Dale Underwriting and Axa XL, respectively.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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Small modular reactors are increasingly viewed as a means of meeting surging energy demand.
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The veteran underwriter said market conditions are still ‘robust’.
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The Corporation’s chair reiterated its aim to reduce the cost of doing business.
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The Corporation’s chair laid out plans to make Lloyd’s a preeminent market in the long term.
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How does Lloyd’s plan to secure its future as a leading global marketplace?
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Losing senior women creates a knock-on effect as juniors lose role models.
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The mortgage insurer said Inigo will continue to operate as a standalone business.
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The CEO said the lack of portfolio crossover was highly attractive to Inigo.
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The US mortgage insurer announced its $1.7bn acquisition of Inigo earlier today.
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The deal becomes part of a wave of carrier dealmaking.
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Organisations were challenged to address systemic DEI failure rather than play “word salad” with labels.
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Inigo executives told Insurance Insider last year they were weighing up the casualty treaty market.
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The carrier plans to reduce 623’s stamp by around 10% next year.
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Property remains the dominant line, accounting for nearly 30% of total London premiums.
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The business has ramped up its underwriting volume since launching in Lloyd’s last July.
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Plus, the latest people moves and all the top news of the week.
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This will be the 15th cohort of companies to go through the Lloyd’s Lab.
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There are concerns that repeated delays could lead to market disengagement with the process.
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Lloyd’s has pursued a Big Game Hunting strategy to lure major insurers into the market.
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The syndicate will be targeting approximately $50mn of GWP in its first year.
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Apollo most recently received in-principle approval for Syndicate 1972.
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The insurer’s plans for the syndicate were revealed by this publication earlier this year.
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The reinsurer is moving all its non-cat business to the new syndicate, leaving 1910 focussed on peak cat.
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Ryan Alternative Capital Re was launched in partnership with Axis Capital.
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Mark ‘Ollie’ Hollingworth has held his current role at Atrium since 2017.
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Paul Sandi, head of reinsurance, will serve as active underwriter for the new syndicate.
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Maintaining underwriting discipline was central to the Corporation's messaging.
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It was announced this week that the business had agreed to be acquired by Skyward Specialty.
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Skyward’s acquisition of Apollo will provide access to the London Bridge framework.
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Rachel Turk said product-line facilities had been “under-scrutinised”.
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Rönesans covers lines including aviation, energy, engineering and liability.
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The carrier said the decision reflected its commitment to portfolio discipline.
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Lloyd’s reported reinsurance GWP increased 10.6% to £13.2mn.
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The cycle-turn M&A story continues with strategic buyers to the fore.
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Lloyd’s will keep heritage systems operationally resilient until at least 2030.
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Syndicate 1440 was approved to assume business incepting January 2026.
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Apollo executives David Ibeson and James Slaughter are committed to the future as a combined entity.
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The LPPC will offer limits of $127.5mn EAR and DSU coverage in the US and Canada.
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In June, this publication revealed that Apollo had appointed Evercore and Howden to run a process.
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A notable uptick in attendance underpins the value still placed on the iconic trading centre.
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What happens when a global broker network decides to fill a gap in the London market itself?
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The news comes after the announcement of CEO Graham Evans’ departure.
