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Connect Underwriting launches specialist MGA Stability Risk

Connect Underwriting Limited, the specialist reinsurance MGA, today announces the launch of London-based MGA Stability Risk UW Limited. Regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, Stability Risk will be supported by Lloyd’s and London-market capacity and will initially write contingency, […]

Connect Underwriting hires CCO for newly launched holding company

Connect Underwriting Limited, a specialist reinsurance MGA, today announces the appointment of Ahsan Abdul Majid, who joins its newly launched holding company: ConnectUW Holdings LTD. Majid has joined as chief commercial officer (CCO) of the company, which has been established […]

MGA Focus: Connect Underwriting takes ‘slow and steady’ approach to property reinsurance

Connect Underwriting is the latest MGA to feature in Insurance Day’s ‘MGA Focus’ series by Francis Churchill. Our CEO and CUO Jamil Elbahou contemplates the challenging 1/1 renewal season, the issues that lie ahead and explains his patient and thorough […]

2023 will test ingenuity and inventiveness of insurers

Writing in this month Emerging Risks Magazine, Connect Underwriting CEO and CUO Jamil Elbahou examines the top challenges likely to test insurers’ ingenuity and inventiveness in the year ahead. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/efnujMWp

Pixel Re launched for USD$500m+ property and energy risks

Connect Underwriting Limited, a specialist reinsurance MGA, today announces the availability of new capacity via Pixel Re, a newly launched, dedicated monoline reinsurance vehicle for global property and downstream energy risks.  With exclusive Lloyd’s and London-market sourced capacity, Pixel Re […]

Blog: Why a collaborative approach for MGAs will be key for philanthropy

In a blog written for Insurance Post, our CEO and CUO Jamil Elbahou discusses his role on the board of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, which enables insurance companies to maximise their CSR impact by working together with other like-minded […]

Ukraine losses to turn tide on years of sluggish PV rate momentum

In an article by Insurance Insider’s Luke Harrison, our CEO and CUO, Jamil Elbahou discusses the implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the political violence market and the systemic use of broker facilities within the class. You can read […]

Cyber terror exposure fears at the heart of insurers reluctance to broaden cover

Our CEO and CUO, Jamil Elbahou, discusses how policy must change in order to address growing cyber risks, as seen in an article by Jon Guy for Insurance Times. Read the full article here: https://www.insurancetimes.co.uk/news-analysis/cyber-terror-exposure-fears-at-the-heart-of-insurers-reluctance-to-broaden-cover/1440516.article

Intelligence: Hardening continues with reinsurance renewals

Our CEO and CUO, Jamil R. Elbahou, considers recent major European losses and the potential longevity of rate hardening at 1/1 renewals in an article written by Edmund Tirbutt in Insurance Post. You can read it here: https://www.postonline.co.uk/reinsurance/7920261/intelligence-hardening-continues-with-reinsurance-renewals

London MGA Connect reveals five-year growth plan

We want to build up the business, build up the distribution, build up the profitability and eventually progress into an insurer.” Our CEO and CUO, Jamil R. Elbahou, recently spoke with The Insurer on his five-year plan for ConnectUW: to […]