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Tokio Marine Kiln joins forces with FemHealth founders to combat triple threat facing sector
19 December 2024
Tokio Marine Kiln today releases a new report that demonstrates the market opportunity for brokers and insurers in supporting ‘FemHealth’ founders - women’s health start-ups.

Tokio Marine Kiln expands APAC Cyber team with appointment of Georgina Furness-Smith
03 December 2024
Tokio Marine Kiln today announces the appointment of Georgina Furness-Smith as Cyber Underwriter in APAC. She will take up her role on 2 January.

McGill and Partners, Tokio Marine Kiln, and Convex, launch groundbreaking, AI-powered trade disruption facility
26 November 2024
McGill and Partners, the independent global specialty insurance and reinsurance broker, has launched a new trade disruption insurance facility in collaboration with Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) and Convex, offering limits of $95M, led by TMK.

Tokio Marine Kiln appoints Alexandros Ampatzis as Head of Marine in APAC
28 October 2024
Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) today announces the appointment of Alexandros Ampatzis as Head of Marine in APAC.

Tokio Marine Kiln appoints Thomas McShane as Head of Technology and Media E&O
21 October 2024
Tokio Marine Kiln has appointed Thomas McShane to the newly created role of Head of Technology and Media E&O. He joins the business in January, and will report directly into Laila Khudairi, Departmental Head of Cyber & Enterprise Risk.

Tokio Marine Kiln and Marsh launch exclusive market-first trade disruption facility for ports and terminals
26 September 2024
Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) and Marsh today announced the launch of an exclusive insurance facility for ports and terminals which provides cover against business interruption arising from trade disruption.
LATEST INSIGHTS

Pop music’s most famous Household Cavalryman, a Soviet Air Force Officer and a Microsoft Engineer
By Luke Fardell, Cyber Security Specialist
18 September 2024
The link between James Blunt, the singer songwriter, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident and Microsoft Engineer Andres Freund may not be obvious.

Can we insure every link in the supply chain?
09 September 2024
The global supply chain is complex and vulnerable to economic and geopolitical disruption. This article looks at supply chain resilience and how insurers are evaluating the threats.

Science-enabled insurance coverage in the fight against forced labour
By Rob Jarvis, Head of Innovation
03 September 2024
Today, proving the origin of raw materials used in the foods we eat, the clothes we wear and the cars we drive has become increasingly crucial in today’s global trade markets. Proving the geographic origins of goods not only has commercial value but customer appeal. Increasingly, isotopic testing and origin technologies have ethical and regulatory significance.

CrowdStrike outage: Disruption that cyber criminals only dream of
By Luke Fardell, Cyber Security Specialist
27 August 2024
IT outages are nothing new. This year alone, businesses in a range of sectors have experienced disruption, from the NHS to McDonalds, from Sainsbury’s to Three. However, these were all relatively minor when compared to last month’s CrowdStrike outage.

PODCAST: TMK’s “strategy is unaltered" against market shifts in 2024, says Vivek Syal
By Vivek Syal, Chief Underwriting Officer
20 March 2024
Tokio Marine Kiln's incoming Chief Underwriting Officer Vivek Syal took part in a podcast interview with the Insurance Insider where he discussed TMK's ambitions, his priorities as CUO and current market conditions.

Driving progress on gender inclusion
By Reeken Patel, Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer
08 March 2024
According to the United Nations, the world is not on track to achieve its goal of Gender Equality by 2030. The facts are stark. While half the world’s population is female, this figure doesn’t equate in terms of average pay or opportunity. The political backdrop too - even in some of the world’s most developed nations – is complex and challenging for many women.
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