In episode 126 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is joined by CICA President Dan Towle, while Senior Reporter Luke hosts a discussion with 831(b) captive owner Drake Plastics Ltd and Dustin Carlson, President of SRA 831(b) Admin.

02:11 - 14:24: CICA President Dan Towle explains why he is confident the UK can become a successful captive domicile, the Association's growing involvement in the UK and European markets and plans for the CICA International Conference, held in Palm Desert, California from March 8 - 10, 2026.

Further reading from Captive Intelligence:

UK has all the tools for captive success, but proportionality “key ingredient”

Captives Coming Home? … What DataHub tells us about UK-owned captives

16:06 - 31:40: Luke interviews Dustin Carlson, President of SRA 831(b) Admin, and Steven Quance, President of Drake Plastics Ltd, to explain how micro-captives are valuable risk financing and management tools, and why they are pushing back through the courts against what they see as regulatory overreach by the Internal Revenue Service in the United States.

Further reading from Captive Intelligence:

Drake Plastics files second lawsuit against IRS concerning 831(b) captives

IRS finalises 831(b) regulations, concedes on loss ratio criticism

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with the Hawaii Captive Insurance Council (HCIC), Richard is joined by Paul Shimomoto, Chair of the HCIC and Partner at law firmGoodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, and Matt Takamine, Director of HCIC and Captive Practice Leader at Brown & Brown.

The trio discuss recent activity in the domicile, accelerating interest from Japan and its upcoming 40th anniversary as a domicile.

Matt and Paul also explain how Hawaii continues to stand out as premier captive domicile in an increasingly competitive landscape, if momentum in Japan may be about to move up a notch and why it is important that the annual Forum in October returns to Maui this year.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with the EY Global Captive Network, Richard discusses the shifting domicile landscape and the factors that go into choosing a jurisdiction.

In a 22 minute episode, Richard is joined by Mikhail Raybshteyn, Partner and Americas Captive Insurance Servicesco-leader, Ted Clabault, Managing Director at EY, and Patrick Theriault, Managing Director at Strategic Risk Solutions.

The group debates what is driving domicile selection today, how the emergence of new domiciles and so called ‘home’ options are changing the equation and where international tax initiatives such as BEPS Pillar 2 are influencing decisions.

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In episode 125 of the Global Captive Network, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is joined by Joe Peiser, Global CEO of Aon Commercial Risk.

Richard met Joe at the VCIA annual conference in Burlington, Vermont in August where they also spoke on the closing keynote panel together.

Joe shares his perspective on the captive market, its importance to Aon and where he sees it going in the future.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with HDI Global, and we discuss international programmes and the important role captives play in facilitating them.

For multinational companies, it is common for a captive to play a role in the layers of an international programme, utilising one or more fronting partners to bring consistency across many, sometimes hundreds, of territories.

Richard is joined by Jelto Borgmann, Head of Captive Services at HDI Global, and Kerstin Kader, Head of HGN Technical Accounting and Intercompany, at the German multinational insurer.

Jelto and Kerstin discuss why international programmes are relevant for captives, how to overcome challenges and complexity such as currency fluctuations and premium transfer, and the importance of getting compliance right in every territory.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Guy Carpenter, Richard takes a closer look at the surge in group captive business in the United States.

Naturally on GCP we do tend to focus more on pure captives and even captive cell utilisation, but the growth in group captives, particularly in the United States, has been huge in recent year.

The US market brings large groups of mid market or smaller companies together to insure an increasing range of lines such as workers’ comp, auto, property and various liability coverages, and is opening up the captive concept to a huge pool of insureds.

Richard is joined by Rob Collins, Captive Segment Leader and Managing Director at Guy Carpenter, and Linda Johnson, Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer at Old Republic Risk Management.

Our two guests provide services to group captives across the US, and they share their views on why we are seeing such growth in this area, what is driving some of the new trends, and how to tackle certain challenges such as fronting, legacy management and reinsurance.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Zurich Insurance, a panel of leading captive experts recreate theirpopular session at RISKWORLD 2025 to debate and discuss why property programmes continue to be such a popular addition to captive insurance companies.

Adriana Scherzinger, Global Head of Captives at Zurich, Ian Ascher, Executive Director for Global Risk Management at captive owner Jones Lang LaSalle, Sandy Bigglestone, Deputy Commissioner for Captive Insurance at the State of Vermont, and Michael Serricchio, US & Canada Regional Leader at Marsh Captive Solutions, explain how property risk is commonly structured in a captive, the drivers in both hard and soft market cycles, and the importance of definining the group’s risk appetite for such coverage.

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In episode 124 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, 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.

04.06 - 13.53: Airmic CEO Julia Graham assesses the tone and ambition of the Treasury's announcement, and explains what role Airmic has to play in the next phase of regulation design and implementation.

14.33 - 26.00: Marsh's William Thomas-Ferrand, Nick Gale and Rob Geraghty explain why they are buoyed by the announcement, what they hope to see in the final regulations and the extent of interest from prospective captive owners and existing captives.

26.38 - 33.30: David Hogg explains why Aon will be moving quick to establish a captive management company in the UK and why the UK could be an appealing destination for captives.

33.54 - 37.55: Esme Gould, of Zurich Insurance Company, shares why the insurer is excited about developments and the potential opening up of the existing PCC regime to captive business.

UK Captive reads from Captive Intelligence:

Captives Coming Home? … What DataHub tells us about UK-owned captives

UK has all the tools for captive success, but proportionality “key ingredient”

Airmic to push for proportional, risk-based UK captive regime

Aon plans UK captive management company, demand expected

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is joined by London-based Stephen Massey, Senior Manager in EMEIA for Financial Services (Insurance) Tax - Transfer Pricing at Ernst & Young LLP, to discuss how the international tax treatment of captives has changed over the years.

Stephen and Richard also discuss the global tax environment for captives in the context of the UK likely becoming a captive domicile in the very near future.

Stephen explains some of the reasons why a UK companymoving its captive 'home' may be advantageous from a tax simplification and compliance standpoint, in some cases.

The UK Chancellor is expected to confirm the introduction of a UK captive regime in her Mansion House speech on 15 July, which should then prompt the Bank of England and PRA to get on with designing the regulatory framework to hopefully be ready for launch by early 2026 or sooner.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Aon, we focus on the what, why and how of structured reinsurance, ART and parametric solutions for captives.

Richard is joined in a 20 minute conversation with London-based Guy Malyon, Strategic Broking Director at Aon in EMEAfor Complex Placements and ART, and Luc Schwartzbrod, of Aon Global Risk Consulting in France.

Guy and Luc discuss why captive owners are increasingly interested in exploring multi-year reinsurance strategies, how parametric programmes can be supported by a captive’s involvement and how these solutions are being put together.

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