Company: AXS-PE
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001214816-25-000056
Chunk: 174

Company: AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 174
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aea (SE), or European society company, registered in accordance with EU law. AXIS Re SE is authorized by the CBI as a composite reinsurer (non-life and life) in accordance with the Insurance Acts 1909 to 2000, as amended, repealed or replaced, the Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2014, as amended, repealed or replaced, and EU regulation applicable to reinsurance and statutory instruments made thereunder. AXIS Re SE is authorized to transact reinsurance throughout the EU and the EEA and is subject to Solvency II. 

AXIS Re SE conducts business through its branch in Zurich, Switzerland, trading as AXIS Re Europe (see 'Switzerland' below). 

AXIS Re SE Escritório de Representação No Brasil Ltda. was established in Brazil as a subsidiary of AXIS Re SE to facilitate the Brazilian Superintendence of Private Insurance ("SUSEP") regulatory requirements for approval of a representative office of AXIS Re SE and for the registration of AXIS Re SE with SUSEP as an admitted reinsurer.

AXIS Re SE has reinsurance permissions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru.

AXIS Specialty Holdings Ireland Limited

AXIS Specialty Holdings Ireland Limited is incorporated in Ireland, and is the limited liability holding company for AXIS Specialty Europe, AXIS Re SE, and formerly Contessa Limited, which was dissolved on April 11, 2024.

AXIS Specialty Global Holdings Limited

AXIS Specialty Global Holdings Limited is incorporated in Ireland, and is the limited liability holding company for AXIS Capital's U.S. Insurance subsidiaries.

Other AXIS Entities

AXIS Specialty Bermuda may write reinsurance under Solvency II equivalence granted to Bermuda by the EU AXIS Managing Agency Ltd. is eligible to write insurance (except permanent health) and reinsurance business in Ireland through Lloyd's Europe.

U.K. and Lloyd's of London

In the U.K., under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ("FSMA"), no person may carry on a regulated activity unless authorized or exempt. Effecting or intermediating contracts of insurance or reinsurance are regulated activities requiring authorization. Effecting contracts of insurance requires authorization by the PRA and is regulated by the FCA. Intermediating contracts of insurance requires authorization by the FCA.

Under the Financial Services Act 2012, the FCA is a conduct regulator for all U.K.