Congratulations To Our 2026 Winners!

Axco Global Insurance Awards 2025 winners

Best Captive or ART Solution

WINNER: Descartes - Flood at Location

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FINALISTS:

  • Allianz Commercial - Strong expertise in all aspects of Captive solutions
  • MSIG Europe - MSIG Europe A.R.T Team
  • Willis Towers Watson (WTW) - WTW - parametric programme to protect Caribbean’s second-largest reef

Best Digital Initiative in Global Insurance

WINNER: Allianz Commercial - Highly intuitive and detailed broker and customer portal

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FINALISTS: 

  • Gallagher - Global Data & Technology Capabilities
  • Hadbrok Insurance Brokers - Digital AI Policy Screening
  • InstaBrain - InstaBrain: Best Digital Initiative in Global Insurance
  • Swiss Re Corporate Solutions - Digital Excellence in International Program Servicing: Swiss Re's PULSE Portal
  • Trust Risk Control - DIGIT: Enhancing Efficiency and Transparency in International Insurance Transactions
  • Zurich - My Zurich eCertificates

Best Newcomer 

WINNER: Mosaic Insurance - Litigation Liability Team

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FINALISTS: 

  • Day Bank - MENA Digital Bancassurance Benefits Hub
  • Liberty Mutual - Liberty Worldwise
  • Sompo - Sompo Multinational Business Unit
  • Starr - Multinational Offering

Best Training Initiative in Global Insurance

WINNER: Aviva - Aviva Global Insurance Academy

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FINALISTS:

  • Allianz Commercial - One language approach to Multinational training
  • Insurance Australia Group (IAG) - IAG's Insurance Faculty
  • Phoenix CRetro - Insurance-Linked Securities Education Programme
  • The Hartford - Multinational CE Course
  • Worldwide Broker Network (WBN) - Every Career needs a Catalyst

Best Workplace Culture

WINNER: QBE - Creating a World-Class Workplace

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: Aviva - Global Services Team - Social Committee

FINALISTS:

  • Brokers Alliance - Building a Culture That Grows With Its People
  • Kanopi - Culture as Infrastructure
  • Lockton - Global Solutions
  • QIC digital hub - People-First Insurance Innovation Culture
  • Worldwide Broker Network (WBN) - Award-winning family of global risk professionals

Business Transformation of the Year

WINNER: Prudential Assurance Uganda - Health Centa

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FINALISTS: 

  • InstaBrain - The Agent-First Digital Platform for Life Insurance

Creativity in Global Programs

WINNER: Allianz Commercial - A bespoke solution for structuring and fronting

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FINALISTS:

  • Allianz Trade - Allianz Trade pay
  • QBE - Creative Problem-Solving for Complex Risks
  • Starr Brazil - Brazil's Multinational Programs: The rise of a sucessful reinsurance treaty

Emerging Risk Solution of the Year

WINNER: Willis Towers Watson (WTW) - Utility Resilience and Climate Risk Solutions

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FINALISTS:

  • Allianz Commercial - A bespoke solution tackling a leading risk in Multinational insurance
  • Descartes - Cyber Shutdown Cover
  • FM - Climate Resilience Tracker
  • PROTHINX - SmartWind – Translating Turbine Operations into Insurance Risk Insights
  • Swiss Re Corporate Solutions - Parametric Red Weather Warning Cover for the Hospitality Sector

Excellence in Claims Service

WINNER: Sedgwick - Global Claims Innovation Initiative

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FINALISTS: 

  • APRIL International - APRIL International
  • Charles Taylor - Charles Taylor Adjusting
  • Filhet-Allard Maritime - A Holistic Approach to Claims Excellence: Transforming Outcomes Through Innovation
  • FM - Fast-Track Claims
  • QBE - Delivering Exceptional Claims Outcomes for Multinational Clients
  • Swiss Re Corporate Solutions - ClaimGenAI: Redefining Global Claims Excellence
  • Zurich - Zurich Claims

Excellence in Client Service

WINNER: Allianz Trade - Elevating Customer Experience and Service

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FINALISTS: 

  • Compulsory Insurance Bureau - TPL.az
  • Integra - Differentiating Through Expertise
  • Lockton - Excellence in Client Service
  • Mosaic Insurance - Litigation Liability Team
  • Pacific Prime - Elevating Client Experience through Personalised Insurance Solutions
  • Scenario Risk Partners - Elevating Underwriting Confidence with Technical Expertise
  • Willis Towers Watson (WTW) - Physical Risk Team
  • Worldwide Broker Network (WBN) - Elevating Client Service in Complex Risk Landscapes

Excellence in Network Management

WINNER: Zurich - Meet Tomorrow Prepared with Zurich Multinational

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FINALISTS: 

  • Allianz Commercial - Strong local and global structure in managing the market’s largest network
  • Generali Employee Benefits Network - Technical Framework Initiative
  • Generali Global Corporate & Commercial - Turning Multinational Complexity into Clarity through Network Excellence, Innovation, Trust
  • Insurope - Helping Multinationals Through Multinational Pooling
  • Trust Risk Control - Global Alliance of Independent Insurance Brokers
  • Worldwide Broker Network (WBN) - Setting A New Standard in Network Excellence

Fronting Partner of the Year

WINNER: Generali Global Corporate & Commercial Iberia&LatAm - Iberia, LatAm and FOS-EU Fronting Hub

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FINALIST: HDI Global - HDI Germany Servicing Office

Global Broker of the Year

WINNER: Lockton - Global Solutions

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FINALISTS: 

  • Alexforbes - Alexforbes Multinational Consulting
  • Balkan Insurance Brokers JSC - Vision forward: From Service to Creation

Global Insurance Personality of the Year

WINNER: Karol Dobias - Allianz Commercial

FINALISTS: 

  • Michael Balarezo - Adjusto
  • Henry Allard - Filhet-Allard Maritime
  • Nigel Fellowes-Freeman - Kanopi

Global Insurer of the Year

WINNER: HDI Global - International Programmes

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FINALISTS:

  • Allianz Commercial - Allianz Commercial
  • Mosaic Insurance - Litigation Liability Team
  • Zurich - Zurich Multinational

Global Program Collaboration of the Year

WINNER: Starr - Building a Successful Global Program Through Collaboration

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FINALISTS:

  • HDI Global - HDI & Liability
  • Trust Risk Control - Bespoke PD/BI Program in 30+ Countries

Global Program Delivery Team of the Year

WINNER: Generali Global Corporate & Commercial France - MP Operations Team Reaching Excellence, Delivering The Lifetime Partner Promise

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FINALISTS:

  • Beazley - Deal Management, Multinational Solutions
  • HDI Global - International Programmes Financial Operations
  • Howden - Global Coordination Team, Multinational Client Practice
  • ICICI Lombard - International Business - Network Partner
  • QBE - QBE Multinational Service Centre Delivery Team:  Elevating Global Service Excellence
  • Swiss Re Corporate Solutions - Turning Complexity into Consistency: Swiss Re’s IP Operations & Account Management Teams
  • Tokio Marine HCC International - Global Programmes Team - Tokio Marine HCC International
  • Travelers - Global Accounts Team

Rising Star in Global Insurance

WINNER: Kavita Punera - Allianz Commercial

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: Gautam Mahey - Pacific Prime

FINALISTS:

  • Jason Horton - Aon
  • Michael Richards - Aviva
  • Neil McKee - Lockton
  • Hannah Butler - M3 Insurance
  • Anduena Murataj - MRH Trowe
  • Laura Farthing - QBE
  • Darius Baltsch - Trust Risk Control

Technology Partner of the Year

WINNER: iCede - AI-Driven Policy Analysis for Global Insurance Programmes

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FINALISTS:

  • CyberCube - for its partnership with the cyber insurance market
  • Five Sigma - Clive™, the insurance industry’s first Multi-Agent AI Claims Expert
  • Greater Than - AI Risk Intelligence
  • Kanopi - Built for Growth, Backed by Partnership
  • KYND - Redefining cyber risk insight for global insurers
  • OIP Insurtech - Transforming Underwriting with Practical AI – The Bound AI Story

Woman of the Year in Global Insurance

WINNER: Jamie Neumann - Brown & Brown

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: Dr. Verena Brenner - PROTH!NX

FINALISTS:

  • Olya Kozenko - Allianz Commercial
  • Chiara Righi - Generali Employee Benefits Network
  • Daniela Masters - Generali Employee Benefits Network
  • Sylvia Alvarino - Insurope
  • Jillian Connell - Lockton
  • Martina Seferovic - OIP Insurtech
  • Lale Topcuoglu - Swiss Re
  • Patricia Trujillo - TelevisaUnivision
  • Rosa Pan - Zurich Multinational