International & Reinsurance News for April 2026
- People Moves: Tokio Marine Kiln Promotes Spencer and Burgess to Lead Fine Art & Specie; HDI Global Taps Beblo From Everest as Global Head of Property Underwriting
- Sanctioned Russian Oil Ships Using Fake Insurance, Ukraine Says
- US and Iran Weigh Truce Extension With Hormuz Still Shuttered
- Sweden Sees Russia Intensifying Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure
- ECB to Quiz Bankers About Risks of Anthropic’s New AI Model, Source Says
- Africa Trade Insurer Seeks $500 million to Help With Iran War Cost Increase
- Helvetia Baloise Set to Return $3.6 Billion to Investors to 2028
- Viewpoint: Why Brokers Have Little to Fear and Everything to Gain From AI
- Britain May Extend Bans on Gagging Orders That Cover Up Workplace Abuse
- England Has 1.2 Million Buildings at Risk of Flooding With No Defenses
- Australian MedTech Firm EBR Systems Flags Possible Data Breach of Patient Records
- Italy Court Allows Class Action Against Meta Over Facebook Data Scraping
- Trump Says Talks With Iran Could Resume Soon, as US Blockades Iranian Ports
- Dutch Insurer Aegon Strikes $2.7B Deal to Sell UK Insurance Business to Standard Life
- People Moves: Aon Commercial Risk Taps Reed From Howden as CCO in UK; BHSI UK Names Kirby Country Manager and Nixon to Lead Exec & Professional Lines
- Canadian Insurers Push Owners to Fortify Homes, Urge Carney to Prioritize Climate Risks
- Tankers Pass Strait of Hormuz on First Day of US Blockade, Data Shows
- Update: US, Iran May Resume Talks This Week Despite Port Blockade
- Update: Here’s a List of Non-Iranian Oil Tankers Transiting Hormuz Since Start of War
- Data Centers Offer a Potential $10 Billion Windfall for Insurers
- Austria Races to Secure Power Supplies as ‘Peak Water’ Looms
- Markets/Coverages: DUAL UK Enhances Cyber Binder With Increased Limits
- China’s Ping An Seeks to Sell $1 Billion Software-Focused PE Assets
- Iran Threatens to Retaliate Against Gulf Ports for US Blockade
- Bank of England Set to Discuss Anthropic’s Mythos With Banks
- Oil Tankers Steer Clear of Hormuz Ahead of US Blockade
- Trump Blockade of Iran Ports Risks Widening War to High Seas
- Hedge Fund Money Is Reshaping a 180-Year-Old Insurance Model
- Markel Expands in Australia With Office in Perth
- Zurich Austria Launches Branch in Poland
- Dubai’s DIFC Introduces Temporary Economic Support for Business, Retail Community
- Iran Demands Lebanon Ceasefire, Unfreezing of Assets Before Peace Talks
- A Toll for Using Hormuz Would Be a ‘Dangerous Precedent’, UN’s Ship Agency Says
- The Fidelis Partnership Launches Capital Solutions Business, Led by Howden’s Gammoh
- Israeli Strikes on Lebanon Jeopardize Iran Truce; Talks Planned but Strait Still Shut
- China Confirms Three Ships Passed Through Strait of Hormuz
- Israel Intensifies Lebanon Strikes With Ceasefire in Doubt
- Hormuz Stays Blocked for Now as Hundreds of Ships Seek Exit
- Shippers Rush for Hormuz Insurance After Truce Deal, Broker Says
- Russia-Linked Hackers Hijack Routers to Steal Passwords, UK Says
- Resuming Normal Shipping to Take 6-8 Weeks Once Middle East Stabilizes: Hapag-Lloyd
- Maersk Cautious on Strait of Hormuz Shipping Despite US-Iran Ceasefire
- US, Iran Agree to Two-Week Ceasefire as Israel Escalates Parallel War in Lebanon
- Shipowners Eye Hormuz Truce With 800 Vessels Still Trapped
- India Plans Sovereign Guarantees for Insurers as Iran War Hikes Shipping Risks: Sources
- Airline Pilots Must Be Given Final Say on Flying in War Zones, Aviators’ Group Says
- China Targets Taiwan’s Chip Tech to Evade Global ‘Containment’: Taipei Government
- Here’s a List of Gulf Energy Infrastructure Damaged in Iran War
- IEA Chief: Current Oil and Gas Crisis Worse Than 1973, 1979, 2002 Together
- ‘A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight,’ Says Trump, as Iran Defies Looming Deadline
- US, Iran Study Ceasefire Plan as Deadline Nears on Trump’s ‘Hell’ Threat
- US Doubles Hormuz Reinsurance Guarantees to $40 Billion With New Partners
- Private Credit Sector Stresses Could Be Catastrophic, but Not Just Yet
- Trump Risks Confidence in US Role as Guardian of Global Shipping
- Reinsurance Rates Continued Softening During April Renewals, Despite Iran War
- Stolen Renoir, C茅zanne and Matisse Were Probably Uninsured, Market Sources Say
- UK Motor Finance Scandal to Cost Lenders $12 Billion
- Secret Codes and Yuan Fees Get Ships Through Iran’s Hormuz Tollbooth
- Oil Prices Surge, Allies Discuss Securing Hormuz, as Trump Vows to Step Up Iran Attacks
- Meet the New AI Coworker Who Won’t Stop Snitching to Your Boss
- Baidu Robotaxis Freeze Mid-Ride in Wuhan, Trap Passengers
- Iranian Missile Hit Oil Tanker in Qatari Waters, Qatar Says
- Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Only Possible When Hormuz Reopens
- Russia and Ukraine Set to Intensify War as World Focuses on Iran
- Viewpoint: How Will the Middle East War Affect the Insurance Sector?
- Bank of England Says Iran War Has Boosted Threats to Financial Stability
- War Risks Insurers Win Bid to Appeal UK Ruling on Jets Lost in Russia
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