Tag: Allianz

January 29, 2024

An insurance start-up founded by three former Allianz executives that aims to guarantee companies buying carbon credits get the permits they’ve paid for has closed the biggest European climate-focused seed funding round in more than a year. CarbonPool raised 10.5 […]

December 19, 2023

Insurance giant Allianz has returned to the catastrophe bond market for the first time in over a decade with a new deal which will provide it with a multi-year risk transfer capacity of €250 million to protect against European windstorms. […]

September 26, 2023

The offshore wind industry is poised for growth, but developers and their insurers need to successfully manage a range of risks to successfully scale this industry globally, said Allianz in a recent report. In ‘A turning point for offshore wind’, […]

August 28, 2023

Viasat Inc. has more than $1 billion of orbiting satellites in trouble, and space insurers are girding for market-rattling claims. The company’s roughly $1 billion ViaSat-3 Americas satellite, central to expanding its fixed-broadband coverage and fending off rivals including Elon […]

May 12, 2023

Allianz has reported that its Q1 2023 operating profit increased 24.2% to €3.7 billion, which the firm attributes to strong performance in Life/Health and Property-Casualty business segments. Meanwhile, total business volume in Q1 2023 increased by 3.9% to €46 billion. […]

March 10, 2023

Allianz Group announced it is restructuring its global commercial insurance segment as one go-to-market business under the trading name Allianz Commercial, which will encompass its Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) business, serving large corporate clients, and the insurance businesses […]

February 27, 2023

The cyber-insurance market, battered by a rash of pandemic-era ransomware attacks, is making a comeback. Price hikes are moderating, new carriers and fresh sources of capital are emerging, and companies can better afford coverage. Cyber-insurance pricing increased 10% from a […]

February 17, 2023

Germany’s Allianz on Friday swung to a fourth-quarter net profit, rebounding after taking big charges a year earlier for a U.S. funds scandal and as a higher investment margin boosted its life and health insurance business. But its asset management […]

July 19, 2022

The recent ruling by a California court of appeal to reverse a lower court’s dismissal and reinstate a COVID-19 related business interruption (BI) lawsuit filed against a division of global insurer Allianz, has the potential to set a “worrying precedent”, […]

May 10, 2022

Global insurers are expected to receive multiple marine insurance claims from ships damaged or lost as the conflict in Ukraine spills over into sea lanes, insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) said in a report on Tuesday. Two seafarers […]

February 21, 2022

Global insurance carrier Allianz has expanded its aggregate reinsurance protection for 2022 and also raised its catastrophe budget for the year, after the company experienced a particularly high burden from nat cat losses in 2021. Allianz’s recently published full year […]

January 7, 2022

Allianz Life has completed its previously announced reinsurance agreement with affiliates of Sixth Street, including Talcott Resolution Life Insurance Company, and Resolution Life, for a $35-billion fixed index annuity portfolio. The transaction which was announced last month, unlocks $4.1 billion […]