Bermuda e-security provider QuoVadis has become a Microsoft Certified Partner (MCP).

Stephen Davidson, vice president of marketing said: “As a commercial certificate authority, QuoVadis advises our corporate clients on strategies to increase the security of their computer systems, as well as to achieve efficiencies through e-business. To service these needs, we have specific expertise in the implementation of digital certificates across the range of Microsoft solutions.

“We help companies issue digital certificates to their employees, business partners, and clients. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, our staff are also highly qualified to help those companies make the most of their certificates in systems ranging from secure e-mail and Web access to network login and VPN,” he added.

ACE Global Reinsurance has opened an ACE Tempest Reinsurance (ACE Tempest Re) underwriting operation in Dublin, Ireland.

The new unit is a division of ACE European Markets Reinsurance Limited (AEMR). AEMR commenced operations in Dublin in 1997 and is capitalised at $100 million.

Tony Spice has been appointed chief underwriting officer, responsible for developing ACE Tempest Re's property and casualty treaty business in continental Europe.

l Swiss Re will host a Media Conference on Alternative Risk Transfer: “ART Solutions in a Time of Capacity Shortage” on Thursday.

The event, which also focuses on the new capacity in Bermuda and the non-life insurance market in a time of capacity shortage, will be held from 8.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. at the Park Avenue Plaza, located at 55 East 52nd Street, on the 44th floor.

Among the featured panellists are: Jacques Aigrain, head of Swiss Re's Financial Services Business Group, Fernando Gentil, head of Structured Finance, Risk Solutions, Hans Zimmermann, co-head of Risk Underwriting, Risk Solutions and Gary Ransom, Financial Services Strategist, Fox-Pitt, Kelton.