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What ambitious looks like: designing a competitive UK captive insurance framework
To build an ambitious and competitive framework, the UK must look to the structures implemented by leading captive domiciles.
ART is No Longer an Accessory – It’s a Strategy
Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) is all the rage. It has become difficult to find a captive industry event that does not have a panel debate or roundtable focussed, at least in part, on ART.
A Historic Milestone: VCIA’s 40th Anniversary Conference Critical for Your Risk Management Strategy
As the most delightful season in Burlington arrives - summer on Lake Champlain - something else comes onto the horizon: VCIA's Annual Conference, August 11–13th at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Burlington, Vermont. You can register here.
Digitisation – Boosting the role of captives
Digital solutions will help captives take a bigger role in helping organisations navigate an uncertain and evolving risk landscape, according to Andreas Ruof, Head of Proposition Development, Zurich Captive Services, Zurich Commercial Insurance.
French success should inspire UK effort, but ambition must not be limited
France’s dramatic entrance into the captive market has been the standout captive story of 2023 and 2024, and the United Kingdom has a similar opportunity if the government grasps it in 2025.
A virtuous circle for EU Captives
A shift in corporations’ motivations for adopting a captive as part of their risk management strategy makes a unified set of European rules for captives more attractive. That, in turn, reinforces the appeal of captives themselves, to create a rare circle of virtue.
Labuan IBFC: Asia’s Leading Domicile for Captive Insurance
Geographically situated off the coast of Borneo in Malaysia, Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) has been operating as Asia’s premier international financial hub for almost 35 years.
Captive Insurance in Labuan IBFC – In a Class by Itself
Located off the Bornean coast in Malaysia, Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) has emerged as a significant player in the global captive insurance industry.
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LATEST PODCASTS

GCP Short: Why property is such a good fit for captive insurers
Zurich's Adriana Scherzinger and a panel of leading captive experts recreate their popular session at RISKWORLD 2025 to debate and discuss why property programmes continue to be such a popular addition to captive insurance companies.
GCP #124: The UK enters captive world, so what next?
Richard is joined by a host of guests to share reaction and analysis of the news that the UK will be implementing a "bespoke" and "competitive" captive insurance regime by 2027.
GCP Short: Tax treatment & anticipating a UK Captive regime
Richard is joined by London-based Stephen Massey, insurance tax specialist at Ernst & Young LLP, to discuss how the international tax treatment of captives has changed over the years and possible consequences of a UK captive regime.