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10 Years of Bitcoin in iGaming in 1 Picture
It’s been a bumpy road, but none of us can deny that BTC has managed to embed itself in the iGaming industry with nothing out there to outperform it in the near future. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Just 10 years was enough to make BTC such an integral part of the […]
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Read MoreIntegral ILS to access catastrophe risk via AmWINS MGA’s
Insurance origination and distribution specialist AmWINS has confirmed that start-up insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager Integral ILS Ltd. will be accessing catastrophe risk through its managing general agents (MGA’s). Integral ILS Ltd. was launched as a new ILS fund manager market entrant by industry execs Richard Lowther and Lixin Zeng, with AmWINS one of the…
Read MoreChina’s Explicit Attacks on Uyghur Victims
WASHINGTON: March 3, 2021 – Under growing global pressure over its treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang), China is mounting an unprecedented and aggressive campaign to push back, including explicit attacks on women who have made claims of abuse, reports Reuters. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Beijing Discredits The Female […]
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Read MoreWhy coronavirus stimulus checks of 12M adults may be at risk
It was largely believed that the third stimulus package of $1.9 trillion would offer stimulus checks to most Americans. However, if Wednesday’s negotiations are anything to go by, then coronavirus stimulus checks for many adults could be at risk. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Coronavirus stimulus checks of millions of adults at […]
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Read MoreChubb’s ABR Re stake grows, importance as reinsurance capital rises
Chubb, the global primary insurance carrier and reinsurance company, has increased its ownership stake in its strategically important total-return and third-party capitalised reinsurance joint-venture ABR Re, as its importance as a reinsurance provider to the Chubb group continues to grow. ABR Reinsurance Capital Holdings Ltd., the parent and ABR Reinsurance Ltd. (ABR Re), the reinsurance…
Read MoreFlorida Citizens to seek $850m of cat bonds before 2021 hurricane season
Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is targeting a $2.6 billion reinsurance and risk transfer program in advance of the 2021 hurricane season beginning and within the renewed towers could be $850 million of new catastrophe bonds. Florida Citizens has been growing at an unsustainable rate, which its Chairman previously said makes it “the insurer of…
Read MoreBrookfield Asset Management gets rating for Cayman reinsurer North End Re
Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the giant Canadian headquartered alternative asset manager that has around $575 billion of assets under management, continues to expand its reinsurance operations with a rating from AM Best now secured for its Cayman Islands based reinsurer North End Re (Cayman) SPC. Brookfield Asset Management became the latest very large global asset…
Read MoreILS capital inflows tempered again, but deployment opportunities to emerge
It’s apparent that some insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers turned down new capital allocations around the January reinsurance renewals as they were not convinced they could deploy it all at acceptable return levels, or in certain cases deploy the entire volume of funds they could potentially have raised at all. The more we speak with…
Read MoreRenaissanceRe Capital Partners formed with Parry as Global Head
RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurance firm and third-party capital management specialist, has announced a rebranding of its Ventures business as RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, with Chris Parry taking the lead role as its Global Head. Ventures had been the unit under which RenaissanceRe’s (RenRe) third-party capital, joint venture and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment management operations have been…
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