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Summary
As the European insurance landscape adapts to shifting macroeconomic forces, insurers face a mix of challenges and opportunities—from falling interest rates and evolving investment strategies to geopolitical tensions and a cooling M&A environment. At the same time, digital transformation continues to reshape how insurers engage with risk, clients, and capital.
Join experts from S&P Global Market Intelligence and S&P Global Ratings as they examine key trends influencing the insurance and reinsurance sectors across Europe and what to watch for in the second half of the year.
Discussion topics will include:
- The impact of declining interest rates on insurance operations and reinsurance performance
- Adjusting investment strategies amid lower bond yields and buoyant equity markets
- Geopolitical and economic uncertainty—from tariffs to trade credit pressures
- Deal-making slowdown: What’s driving the drop in M&A activity across the sector
- The evolving role of Insurtech and digital transformation in driving efficiency and growth
Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Prithvi Jadeja
Business Development Analyst
Prithvi Jadeja is a Business Development Analyst specializing in Insurance products and solutions at S&P Global Market Intelligence. With over a decade of experience since joining S&P in 2013, Prithvi has excelled in Client Services, Customer Success, and Business Development, focusing on empowering clients to effectively utilize S&P's insurance and banking products and services. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and an MBA from Panjab University.
S&P Global Ratings
Johannes Bender
Director & Lead Analyst, Insurance Ratings
Johannes Bender is a director in S&P Global Ratings, based in Frankfurt. He is lead analyst for insurance markets in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, global reinsurance and Central & Eastern Europe. He joined S&P Global Ratings in November 2004. Previously, Bender worked for three years at German public-law insurer SV SparkassenVersicherung, mainly in asset management controlling. He holds a Master of Business Administration in insurance management from University of Applied Sciences Coburg and a diploma in Business Administration from University of Cooperative Education Mannheim and a Bachelor of Arts from Open University in London.
S&P Global Ratings
Volker Kudszus
Managing Director & Sector Lead, Insurance Ratings
Volker Kudszus is a managing director with S&P Global Ratings, based in Frankfurt. Kudszus leads the insurance ratings sector in EMEA and chairs the Analytical Oversight and Consistency Council for EMEA Insurance. He also co-chairs S&P Global Ratings' IFRS 17 working group. Kudszus specializes in hybrid bond issues for European insurers and co-chairs S&P Global Ratings' global hybrid council. Before joining S&P in 2012, Kudszus spent five years overseeing global insurance at Deka Investment's equity asset management. Prior to that, he spent eight years in Insurance Equity Research and Insurance Asset Management with WestLB group in Düsseldorf. Kudszus holds a diploma in mathematics and physics from the University of Münster.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Ben Dyson
Senior Editor, Insurance Reporter EMEA
Ben Dyson is an insurance reporter covering the EMEA region at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
He has been a financial journalist for 23 years and has covered insurance and reinsurance for 20 of those years. Before joining S&P Global Market Intelligence in November 2017 Ben was finance editor at Insurance Times, a publication focusing on the U.K. general insurance market. He started his journalism career at Reactions, a magazine covering the global reinsurance market.
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