Insurance for Banks & Financial Institutions

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Industry overview

Chubb has a rich history of insuring Financial Institutions dating back over 100 years. A dedicated underwriting department was established in 1964, with Financial Institution specialization. The team delivers insurance solutions that respond to the unique needs of these institutions — backed by Chubb’s superior financial strength and renowned claims handling.
What is Financial Institutions’ insurance?

Financial Institutions insurance provides a spectrum of customizable business insurance solutions and services that goes beyond the basics, including IoT water leak detection, cyber risk management, and regulatory compliance support. Our specialists help ensure your protection evolves with your risks.

What coverage does Chubb provide?

Chubb offers coverage that includes Property, General Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Auto, Excess Umbrella, and specialty solutions such as Multinational insurance, Trust Property and Liability, Foreclosure Property, and Cyber, all tailored for financial institutions.

Who is it for?

This insurance is designed for organizations across the financial sector, including banks, credit unions, investment advisers, hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, and real estate investment funds.

What services does Chubb provide?

Chubb offers dedicated underwriting, expert claims handling, and risk consulting services, supported by a global team with deep industry knowledge and advanced digital solutions to help financial institutions manage and mitigate risk.

Use case example

An asset manager with international operations chose Chubb for a comprehensive insurance package, benefiting from dedicated underwriters, multinational capabilities, and flexible policy solutions that supported their global needs.

Products and services

With a rich heritage of more than 100 years’ experience insuring financial institutions — including asset management firms and funds, banks and other lending institutions, and insurance companies — Chubb offers a broad spectrum of quality, customizable insurance solutions and services for financial institutions. You can count on our knowledgeable underwriters, risk consulting specialists, worldwide claims staff, and financial strength.

Property insurance
Supported by our exceptional risk consulting, claims services, and global capabilities, our dedicated underwriters tailor your property coverage to meet the unique needs of your business.
General liability insurance
Coverage can be purchased packaged or monoline and include a blend of traditional insurance and alternative risk financing mechanisms to help manage your company’s liability risk.
Umbrella & excess casualty insurance
Our robust, feature-rich policies offer insurance protection on an excess or umbrella basis over and above your underlying policy limits and coverage options for your organization’s unique exposures.
Directors & officers liability insurance
In an increasingly litigious business landscape, safeguard the personal assets of your directors & officers as well as your balance sheet from legal costs and liability damages arising from D&O duties.
Errors & omissions (E&O) insurance
In an increasingly litigious society, it’s critical to have insurance protection against liabilities impacting professionals, the services they provide, and their company’s financial reputation.
Workers' compensation insurance
Companies of all sizes can get customized coverage with features like proactive managed care to speed return-to-work timeframes, fraud detection and prevention, and litigation and recovery management.

Commercial package insurance

In addition to coverage for large, multinational companies, Chubb covers small and midsize businesses with three package policy options — Business Owners Policy (BOP), Benchmarq, and Customarq. Each combines property, business income, and general liability insurance, and can be tailored for your specific exposures.
Business owners policy (BOP)

Protect your small business with this customizable insurance package policy. It offers a combination of property, business income, crime, employment practices liability, cyber, and general liability coverages, as well as the ability to add supporting insurance solutions specifically tailored to your small business needs.

Benchmarq

Designed to be scalable for small to midsize businesses, Benchmarq is a flexible, customizable package including property, business income, and general liability insurance. Featuring enhanced base coverages that are broader than the industry standard, Benchmarq makes it easy to add protections as your business grows or risks evolve.

Customarq

Our proprietary package product offers midsize businesses property, business income, and general liability insurance with a wealth of options to suit your needs. Customarq’s modular approach provides unmatched flexibility to protect against global exposures and industry-specific perils, and to quickly respond to emerging and evolving risks.

Brendan Arnott
Chubb Specialist Profile

Meet our financial institutions industry practice leader

Brendan Arnott

EVP, Financial Institutions Industry Practice Leader

“The depth of our expertise means that we’re willing take on unique exposures and create custom solutions for our customers that make sense for everyone.”

Emerging risks

Protecting what matters: Best practices for trust property inspections

As a trustee, you recognize your fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the trust.  Failure to properly inspect and maintain properties can result in incidents associated with water damage, fires, theft, and liability claims arising from slips, trips, and falls, as well as injuries from operational features such as swimming pools and spas. Following practical guidance and adopting best practices for conducting a thorough property inspection can help ensure that assets are protected.

Safeguarding valuable assets: A blueprint for portfolio risk management

A facility becoming vacant transforms it from a once-desirable asset, into a space that presents a high risk from property damage and premises liability.  To help mitigate vulnerabilities, an effective risk management process is needed that encompasses taking action, conducting at least weekly site inspections, performing regular maintenance, engaging the appropriate resources and leveraging technology.

Research

Middle Market Indicator

Chubb partners with the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM) to support the Middle Market Indicator (MMI), a semiannual research survey launched in 2012. The insights gained through this partnership plant the seeds of new ways Chubb can support and protect middle market businesses in a rapidly changing world. The MMI polls 1000 executives (CEOs, CFOs and other financial decision makers) from middle market companies with $10 million to $1 billion in annual revenue.

Frequently asked questions

Using our clients as examples, financial institutions typically purchase a package policy for small or mid-sized companies, which includes not only broad property and general liability coverages, but also features and benefits not found in other industry policies. In addition, they tend to round out their insurance programs with workers compensation, commercial auto, financial lines coverages such as cyber and directors and officers (D&O) or errors and omissions (E&O) and excess liability. 

The best defense is offense — and, therefore, Chubb has invested heavily in our risk consulting capabilities to help your organization safeguard against loss. We’re able to proactively assess risks and advise our clients on how to help prevent the breadth of financial institution exposures — whether property perils or cyber hacking.

Risk consulting services help ensure business continuity, protect electronic data processing infrastructure as well as data, and mitigate accidents and injuries for customers and workers alike.

Important qualities for your insurance carrier to have are financial strength and capacity, in addition to specific, deep financial industry expertise that spans all aspects of your insurance partnership.

Chubb’s strength allows us to offer financial institutions robust primary casualty, excess umbrella, and property limits — some of the largest capacity levels available in the industry. Our financial institution expertise starts with our dedicated underwriting and extends through to our claims services. Whether your company is an asset management firm, a mortgage lender, or an insurance brokerage, we address your unique risks. Further, should you experience an incident, Chubb claims team provides efficiency, empathy, and deep experience managing all types of losses that financial institutions could face, from legal liabilities and cyber incident response to employee injuries and property losses.

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