At a recent meeting of the Global Reinsurance Forum (GRF) Emmanuel Clarke, President and CEO PartnerRe, has assumed the role of GRF Chairman for a two-year term, succeeding Kevin O'Donnell, CEO RenaissanceRe, who became Chairman in 2018. Jean-Jacques Henchoz, CEO Hannover Re, was elected Vice Chairman.

GENERALI Global Business Lines (GBL) and GENERALI Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) announce key appointments to further enhance strategy execution.

German insurer TALANX informed Jan WICKE, previously responsible on the Board of Management for the Retail Germany Division, will take over as CFO as from 1 September 2020. He will replace Immo QUERNER who will leave the company on the best of terms and by mutual agreement effective 31 August 2020. At the same time, GOTHAER manager Christopher LOHMANN was appointed as Board of Management member responsible for business in Germany.

Austrian insurer VIG informed that APEIRON Biologics AG successfully performed its planned capital increase with subscription rights and private placement, raising EUR 11.9 million on 2 June 2020. "At around EUR 7 million, Vienna Insurance Group was the anchor investor in this round of financing. Vienna Insurance Group holds a direct interest of just over 3% in APEIRON".

LLOYD's announced the appointment of Marc LIPMAN as President, LLOYD's Canada, and Attorney-in-Fact (AIF) for LLOYD's Underwriters. Marc LIPMAN assumes the role of AIF from Lisa DUVAL, who stepped in last year on an interim basis and now returns to LLOYD's International Regulatory Affairs in London.

Slovenian Life insurer NLB Vita becomes part of the SAVA Insurance Group — one of the top three insurance groups in the Adria region, after on May 29 — the two involved parties — KBC Insurance and Nova Ljubljanska banka — closed the transaction announced on 27 December 2019.

GENERALI announced it donated EUR 100,000 to the Government of the Republic of Serbia to support the healthcare system in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic and to the Fire Eye laboratory for the purchase of lab supplies and equipment, hygiene and disinfection supplies, office supplies and furniture, for the workers' compensation and for the development of research and training potential.

GUY CARPENTER - the risk and reinsurance specialist and a business of MARSH & McLennan Companies, announced that it has entered into an exclusive multi-year agreement with SYNTHETIK to further enhance its proprietary terrorism modeling product, SUNSTONE.

During May 2020, S&P Global Ratings affirmed the ratings of multiple (re/)insurance groups and companies, including Munich Re, Fairfax and NN.

PZU Group ended the first quarter of 2020 with a consolidated net result of PLN 116 million, 84.5% lower year-on-year. The net profit registered by the group excluding Alior Bank and Pekao reached PLN 577 million (-13.3%).

The Board of Directors of the French group SCOR has announced on May 25 that it will propose to the Shareholders' Meeting of June 16, that no dividend be distributed for the 2019 fiscal year and that the entire income for that year be allocated to distributable earnings.

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) announced an increase of USD 200 million to the USD 200 million 2.3% senior unsecured notes due 2030, issued on February 25, 2020 by Zurich Holding Company of America, Inc., bringing the total issue size to USD 400 million.

Carlos GONZALEZ-PERANDONES, currently Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of Nationale-Nederlanden Spain, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Nationale-Nederlanden Spain, effective 1 June: "This follows Cornelia COMAN's decision to leave NN Group to pursue opportunities outside our company".

Johann STROBL, CEO of RAIFFEISEN Bank International AG (RBI), was elected to the Supervisory Board of UNIQA Insurance Group AG by the Annual General Meeting. He was proposed to replace Erwin HAMESEDER, who left UNIQA's Supervisory Board at the end of the Annual General Meeting on 25 May 2020. Click here to read more.

AVIVA plc announced the appointment of George CULMER as Non-Executive Chairman with effect from the 27th May 2020, following the AVIVA AGM.

Global re/insurance broker Aon announced it has promoted Steve PETREVSKI as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data & Analytic Services to drive its growth strategy through new capabilities that leverage emerging technologies for digital businesses and accelerate foundational Data and Analytic Services capabilities. PETREVSKI will report to John Bruno, CEO of Data & Analytic Services and COO of Aon.

Slovene re/insurane groups TRIGLAV and SAVA informed the public of the Insurance Supervision Agency's new call upon the insurance companies to suspend the payout of dividends from accumulated profit and not to undertake any irrevocable commitment to pay out dividends by 1 October 2020.

The coronavirus pandemic is leaving deep scars on the global economy. According to the credit insurer EULER HERMES, this will likely to lead to a deep recession in world trade and the global economy - and consequently to a wave of insolvencies worldwide.

UNIQA Group ended the first three months of 2020 with a consolidated net result of EUR -13.2 million, COVID-19-related market effects forcing UNIQA to report a negative quarterly result for the first time since 2011 euro crisis. The result compares to an EUR 32.2 million net profit in the first quarter of 2019.

For the first three months of 2020, Generali Group recorded a net profit of EUR 113 million, 84.8% lower year-on-year. The group's operating result reached EUR 1,448 million, up 7.6%, driven by P&C and Asset Management growths.