Summary |
Insurance markets have radically and deeply changed in the last 20 years Deregulation, globalization of insurance institutions, intensified competition, electronic commerce, bancassurance, and the emergence of new risks are among the challenges faced by insurance markets now. These developing trends pose both global and local challenges for insurance firms.
On one hand, it is clear that some key development in the insurance and financial services markets influence global insurance markets. Some common issues have had, and will have, determinant influence globally, with limited nation or local constraints. For example, the deregulation of financial services markets advances in computing and communications technologies, and the increasing investment sophistication of financial services customers have affected markets worldwide
The contents of the book includes below:
1. International insurance markets: Between global dynamics and local contingencies-an introduction.
2. The United States insurance market: characteristics and trends.
3. The Japanese insurance market and companies recent trends.
4. The UK insurance industry- structure and performance.
5. The French insurance market: Background and trends.
6. The German insurance industry: Market overview and trends.
7. The Italian insurance sector between macro and macro facts: Salient features, recent trends, and an econometric analysis.
8. A descriptive analysis of Canadian insurance markets.
9. Insurance in the Netherlands: Market structure and recent developments.
10. The structure, conduct, and performance of the Spanish insurance industry.
11. The insurance market in the republic of Ireland.
12. China’s insurance industry: developments and prospects.
13. An analysis of the evolution of insurance in India
14. South African insurance markets.
15. Recent developments in the Brazilian insurance market.
16. European insurance markets: recent trends and future regulatory developments.
17. South and East Asian insurance market growth and development.
18. The global reinsurance market
19. Lloyd’s and the London insurance market: an overview.
20. An overview of the alternative risk transfer market.
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