In episode 112 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the ⁠EY Global Captive Network⁠, Richard had the pleasure of visiting Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, to moderate a couple of panels at Aon’s Captive Masterclass in the city and speak to a range of stakeholders and captive owners in the region.

Richard recorded several interviews with new guests to shed light on a relatively new, but ambitious domicile with bags of potential, especially serving as a captive home for large state-owned and private corporates in the region.

Richard recorded couple interviews with new guests to shed light on a relatively new, but ambitious domicile with bags of potential, especially serving as a captive home for large state-owned and private corporates in the region.

01.16 - 09.40: David Barker, Director of Supervision at ADGM's Financial Services Regulatory Authority, outlines the regulatory environment for captives in Abu Dhabi.

10.22 - 18.44: Toby Shore, Senior Director within Group Treasury at Emirates Global Aluminium, explains his approach to captive utilisation and his experience of Abu Dhabi as a captive domicile.

19.18 - 24.27: Aon's David Hogg, Regional Managing Director of Captive and Insurance Management at EMEA, Karl De Giovanni, Director of Client Solutions, and Costain Nikisi, General Manager in the Middle East for Aon Captive & Insurance Management, discuss Aon's focus on the region and the potential they see for further captive growth.

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This GCP Short, produced in partnership with AXA XL, focuses on the energy transition, the insurance challenges concerned and the role for captives to support their parents.

Richard is joined by Owen Williams, Global Program and Captives Regional Director for the UK at AXA XL, and Vicky Roberts-Mills, Global Head of Energy Transition at the insurer, in an engaging 14 minute discussion.

They discuss what the energy transition is, the challenges it is presenting, and the role captives and alternative risk transfer can play in supporting insureds in building suitable and effective insurance programmes.

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In GCP #111, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is joined by Tibor Boettcher, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Volkswagen Insurance Company DAC, domiciled in Dublin, Ireland.

Tibor has a long history with the Volkswagen group, but has been in the captive role since January 2023.

Over the course of a 20 minute discussion, Tibor explains the role of the Volkswagen captive, its position in various risk financing progammes, why they recently moved from two to one captive and his experience of Ireland as a captive domicile.

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This GCP Short, produced in partnership with HDI Global, checks in with the HDI Global team to find out how their expansion into the UK and US captive fronting markets is progressing.

Oliver Davies, recently promoted to chief distribution officer for the UK & Ireland, tells us about HDI’s captive growth plans on this side of the pond and what parts of the market they are targeting.

Jason Tyng, vice president of US captive solutions group at HDI, updates listeners about the latest growth and next steps for the industrial insurer in the United States.

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In episode 110 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Senior Reporter Luke Harrison brings a series of interviews from the Vermont Captive Insurance Associaton (VCIA) conference that was held in Burlington, Vermont in August.

01.11 - 16.48: Christine Brown, Director of Captive Insurance at the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation, discusses the latest activity in the State and at the department.

17.13 - 24.45: Colin Donovan, president of STICO Mutual Insurance Company, RRG, provides an update on activities and objectives at the risk retention group.

25.14 - 31.09: Luke shares brief catch ups with Hylant’s Claire Richardson, John James and Scott Mildrum of Performa, Ian Davis at M&T Bank, EY’s Mikhail Raybshteyn, Karen Hsi, of the Univesity of California, and Brown & Brown’s Mat Robinson.

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This GCP Short, produced in partnership with MAXIS Global Benefits Network, is all about the importance of collaboration between HR and risk and insurance teams when implementing a captive employee benefits programme.

Over 25 minutes, Richard is joined by Lauren Kelly, Regional Manager for the Central Zone in the United States with MAXIS, and Dany Mathieu, Senior Vice President and North American Leader for Captive EB Services at Aon.

Lauren and Dany explain the stages of EB captive implementation and roles played by risk, insurance and HR colleagues at the insured, how those relationships can work well and the importance of aligned priorities and understanding to achieve a successful outcome for all stakeholders and employees.

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In episode 109 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard visits the offices of Spring Insure in Guernsey.

Spring Insure is a managing general agent focused on the offshore financial centre market and specialising in D&O.

CEO Nigel Brand and board member Malcolm Cutts-Watson discuss the current attitude and approach towards D&O insurance by captive boards, and particularly in relation to independent non-executive directors (iNEDS).

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This GCP Short, produced in partnership with Spring Consulting Group, is all about a groundbreaking transaction of pension risk to a US captive.

Captive Intelligence reported in July that the US Department of Labor had tentatively authorised an ERISA exemption for the New York-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC), concerning a pension risk transfer to its Vermont-domiciled captive.

The client, MSKCC, worked closely with Spring Consulting on this transaction and application to the DoL, and so Richard caught up with Spring’s Karin Landry and Prabal Lakhanpal to discuss pension risk transfer to captives more broadly, how they work and whether we might see more activity in this area.

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