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Guy Carpenter launches MetaRisk® Live to enable real-time reinsurance strategy optimisation

ICMIF Supporting Member Guy Carpenter, has today announced the launch of MetaRisk® Live, a new tool that supports the structuring and optimisation of reinsurance strategies in real time.  MetaRisk Live enables clients to evaluate instantly the impact of changes to their reinsurance structure, creating a dynamic process that supports a better understanding of buying decisions. Leveraging the power of Guy Carpenter’s […]

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Gallagher Re report evaluates adoption and use of cyber models in managing risk exposure

Due in part to the lack of loss experience in the cyber market and in-depth understanding of cyber threat and behaviour, many cyber catastrophe models are still in their infancy. However, the choice of some market leading companies to incorporate the outputs into their capital modelling means that the market is entering a period of […]

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Relaunched as a hybrid event, AM Best to host Europe Insurance Market & Methodology Briefings in-person and virtually

ICMIF Supporting Member AM Best will host its Europe Insurance Market & Methodology Briefings next week (Wednesday 9 November 2022) as an in-person event in London; and have just announced that attendees can now join virtually as it announces a hybrid format for the market and methodology briefing. Details of how to register for the […]

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Income expands micro-insurance proposition beyond Southeast Asia to Japan

Singaporean ICMIF member Income Insurance Ltd (Income) announced this week the launch of its micro-insurance franchise model on the company’s Insurance-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, HIVE by Income, as it expands its footprint beyond Southeast Asia to Japan. ReMark, the digital solutions provider of global reinsurer, SCOR, is the first international partner to adopt Income’s micro-insurance franchise […]

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OneFamily to acquire Beagle Street to support insurance needs of the underserved

UK ICMIF member OneFamily has announced that it will be acquiring Beagle Street by the end of the year, in a deal that will see the mutual expanding its product range and the support it can give to its members. Beagle Street, part of BGL Insurance, specialises in affordable, simple to purchase life and critical […]

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Co-op Insurance to offer home insurance through Amazon Insurance Store to millions of UK customers

At the end of last month, Co-op Insurance, one of UK’s leading provider of home insurance, announced that it will be one of the first three participating insurers for the new Amazon Insurance Store. By the end of the year, customers will be able to purchase Co-op Insurance policies on amazon.co.uk alongside products they may […]

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Halwell Mutual and The Commonwell named as best insurance workplaces in Canada

ICMIF members Halwell Mutual and The Commonwell Mutual were recently certified among the best workplaces in the Canadian insurance and financial service industry by Great Place to Work®, a global authority on workplace culture. The 2022 list of Best Workplacesâ„¢ in Financial Services and Insurance is based on direct feedback from employees of the hundreds […]

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ICMIF launches new Resiliency Benchmark

This week, at its Centenary Conference being held in Rome (Italy), ICMIF launched the ICMIF Resiliency Benchmark which builds on the work set out from the Federation’s partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) to embed disaster risk reduction (DRR) in mutual and cooperative insurance. In November 2019, the International Cooperative […]

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ICMIF launches Insurance SDG Calculator, pioneering insurance sustainability impact measurement

Today, at its Centenary Conference being held in Rome (Italy), ICMIF has launched the ICMIF-calibrated Insurance SDG Calculator, the first tool to measure insurance sustainability impact against the Insurance Sustainable Development Goals (iSDGs). Swiss Re Institute developed the underlying tool under the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance (UN PSI) iSDG initiative, focused on developing insurance-relevant […]

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Rob Wesseling of Co-operators appointed new Chair of ICMIF

The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) has announced that Rob Wesseling, President and CEO, Co-operators (Canada) will be the Federation’s new Chair for a four-year term. The announcement was made during the Federation’s General Meeting on Wednesday 26 October which took place during the ICMIF Centenary Conference in Rome, hosted by ICMIF member […]

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