Analytics and data provider Verisk has unveiled a fraud prevention platform that aims to help insurers benefit from unified fraud intelligence, analytics and case management.

Munich Re has warned that losses from so-called non-peak natural catastrophes have surpassed £74bn for the first time, marking what the reinsurer says is a ‘new normal’ for global insured losses and highlighting the growing need for reinsurance capacity.

Aon has launched Underwriting Analytics, a new capability within its risk analytics platform that aims to help re/insurers evaluate the impact of future risks on portfolios before capacity is deployed.

Treaty reinsurance written in the London company market fell 6% last year, according to data released by the International Underwriting Association. Total premiums of £11.270bn were recorded by the sector in 2025, compared to £11.985bn the previous year.

Nine out of ten (87%) pharmaceutical companies across the UK and G7 countries expect climate-related disruption to their supply chains to increase in the years ahead, according to BSI’s 2026 G7 ‘temperature check’.

The government must work more closely with households, communities and industry to ensure the food supply chain can withstand increasingly likely and severe shocks including extreme weather events, cyber-attacks and disease outbreaks, according to a report from the National Audit Office.