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Altitude Risk Partners launches as the first underwriting cell on Castel’s MGA platform

21 January, 2014

Altitude Risk Partners has today become the first underwriting cell to utilise the Castel Underwriting Agencies (Castel) club-style MGA platform to create a dynamic aerospace underwriting business. Launched in London with capacity from Barbican Insurance Group, HDI-Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG and Sompo Japan Insurance Inc on a quota share basis, Altitude Risk Partners will underwrite a […]

Castel’s collaborative club platform launched to fast-track creation of next generation MGAs

28 October, 2013

Castel Underwriting (Castel),a new club style MGA formation platform that provides experienced and entrepreneurial underwriters with stable capacity and a fast-track route to creating their own businesses, has been formally launched in London this week. Led by the former CEO of Wildnet, Mark Birrell, Castel has been specifically developed to support the ambitions of innovative […]

Castel Platform Supports MGAs With Capacity And Infrastructure

24 April, 2013

Barbican has recruited Wildnet’s Mark Birrell as head of a new platform to fast-track embryonic MGA operations. London market underwriting group Barbican has launched Castel Underwriting as a platform to help prospective managing general agents (MGAs), providing capacity support as well as handling infrastructure and compliance services for new firms looking to open niche underwriting […]

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