Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) reports developments across its advisory, broking and solutions businesses in people, risk and capital. News commonly covers earnings from Health, Wealth & Career and Risk & Broking, insurance brokerage and risk consulting activity, employee benefits, workplace pensions, benefits delivery and outsourcing, and insurance consulting technology.
Company updates also include product launches such as transactional-risk insurance, catastrophe and reputational-risk research, AI and technology adoption, acquisition integration in brokerage and workplace savings, leadership appointments, share repurchase plans and client or brand partnerships.
WTW (WTW) published an EX Intelligent report examining employees’ uncertainty about future skills and managers’ support for developing those skills. Employees saying their manager helps develop their abilities declined from 84% to 78% over the past four years. Only about 30% of organizations have established processes for identifying, assessing and tracking workforce skills. Meanwhile, 45% of employees say AI is already important to their daily job, and another 22% say it will fundamentally change their work in the future. WTW describes uncertainty about skills remaining relevant and where to focus development as “capability anxiety.”
WTW (WTW) released its fall 2026 insurance market report through Willis, detailing falling commercial property rates across North America.
Large and complex property rates fell an average of 14.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026, compared with an 8.4 percent decline a year earlier. Shared and layered placements involving five or more carriers declined 23.41 percent, versus 14.57 percent in the second quarter of 2025. The report covers more than thirty commercial insurance lines. High-hazard auto and general/excess liability markets remain under pressure, while early indications suggest excess casualty rate increases may be nearing their peak. Cyber rates range from a 5 percent decrease to a 5 percent increase.
WTW (WTW) confirmed regulatory approval for the ownership change that will give it full control of Al-Futtaim Willis, its UAE-based joint venture. Al-Futtaim sold its 51% stake, and approvals from the Central Bank of the UAE and the Central Bank of Bahrain complete the ownership change.
WTW said the investment will enable it to wholly manage the businesses in Dubai and Bahrain and give regional clients access to its specialist expertise and global placement capabilities. The change complements recent investments in Saudi Arabia, where WTW established insurance and reinsurance broking entities.
WTW (WTW) has entered into an agreement with Sapien Software to provide HR and deal intelligence solutions for mid-market transactions globally.
The partnership brings Sapien’s software into WTW’s Human Capital Divestitures in a Box solution for buyers and sellers involved in divestitures, mergers and acquisitions. It combines WTW’s transaction consulting with human resources management software, payroll administration, international benefits administration and managed services. WTW said the solution is designed to accelerate readiness at transaction close and reduce reliance on temporary service agreements between transaction parties.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) business Willis published “The decision advantage,” a report marking the Willis Research Network’s 20th anniversary. Willis argues that recognizing changing assumptions early matters more than predicting the future as organizations compete for resources. The report offers a decision-making framework and case studies covering AI-enabled growth, electrification, security-driven growth and adaptive capacity.
Willis, a WTW (WTW) business, launched RiskIQ Nexus, a platform that brings risk and insurance information together.
The AI-enabled platform combines policy, premium, loss and exposure data from multiple sources. It supports document ingestion and data queries and is being rolled out to clients globally through Willis' Propel initiative.
WTW (WTW) unveiled Radar AI Assistant, a natural-language capability within its Radar Vision monitoring tool for insurers. WTW says the assistant can identify emerging issues and patterns in insurers’ data for pricing, underwriting, claims and portfolio management teams. It explains likely drivers and recommends pricing and underwriting actions.
WTW (WTW) announced a partnership with Softtek on September 24, 2026, focused on AI workforce transformation.
WTW’s AI Workforce Transformation solution helps clients assess AI’s potential within jobs, redesign work and plan for workforce management. It also addresses total rewards and employee preparation. Softtek contributes engineering, AI and automation expertise to redesign business processes and deploy technology solutions.
WTW (WTW) has signed a new global agreement with Zurich Insurance Company to deploy WTW’s Radar rating and analytics software across Zurich’s target Retail markets worldwide.
The deal significantly expands a prior country-level arrangement in which Radar was integrated into primary Retail lines. Radar will support Zurich’s pricing sophistication and risk selection, using real-time insights, advanced analytics and insurance-focused AI to enhance pricing, portfolio management, claims and underwriting decisions.
WTW (WTW) reports that insurers are increasingly using facultative reinsurance to support growth, capital management and geographic expansion in a softening market.
The 2026 Facultative Reinsurance Report, based on responses from 380 senior insurance decision makers across five global regions, finds 52% of insurers now cite capital management as a key reason for buying facultative cover, up from 44% in 2024. Around 56% see global expansion as a main opportunity in the next two years, and 52% list entering new markets and risk areas as a top strategic objective. The survey shows 60% expect to increase facultative purchases, while concerns about emerging risks such as geopolitics (57%), cyber (54%) and climate (40%) are rising.