Willis has announced a new scientific partnership with researchers at Cornell University and the Cornell Atkinson Centre for Sustainability to identify evolving threats from correlated natural catastrophes.

Safeture has released its 2026 Continental Risk Maps, outlining travel risks across Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. Produced with travel risk intelligence firm Riskline, the maps provide country risk ratings and identify cities facing elevated threats including crime, civil unrest, terrorism, political instability and health concerns.

WatchGuard Technologies has launched Rai, a new agentic artificial intelligence platform designed to automate cyber security operations for managed service providers. Rai is described as an “always-on digital worker” that monitors client environments, detects threats and takes authorised action before human intervention is required.

MS Amlin has launched a property treaty consortium designed to increase capacity for property per risk business and simplify placement. The Property Treaty Per Risk Consortium increases MS Amlin’s maximum line size from US$50m to US$67.5m, a 35% uplift in capacity. The move is expected to support growing demand for higher limits in datacentres.

Aon has launched an updated version of its Climate Risk Monitor platform, supplementing the tool with heat stress, cooling demand and water stress analytics. CRM 3.0 seeks to capture how temperature, humidity and exposure can affect businesses and communities, including health outcomes as well as potential economic and productivity impacts of warming.

Cyber attacks are posing a growing threat to the delivery of construction projects, with ransomware identified as the most disruptive risk to the sector in the UK. Each incident leads to an average of 24 days of downtime, increasing the likelihood of delays and rising costs, according to a new report.