AIG vs Beazley: Fidelity Bonds

AIG and Beazley market financial institution fidelity bonds. AIG lists employee dishonesty and fraud examples; Beazley describes covered money and securities losses and offers dedicated bond application forms.

Van Ness Partners presents a practical comparison of source materials relevant to financial crime exposures.Research updated 2026-09-30

What Are the Key Differences Between AIG and Beazley Fidelity Bonds?

Limits and Financial Institution Scope

Beazley advertises Financial Fidelity Bond limits up to $25 million and identifies a dedicated team underwriting the product for financial institutions. AIG also names banks, non-bank lenders, asset managers, and insurers as bond audiences, but publishes no standard bond amount. Buyers should ask whether Beazley’s advertised maximum is available for their institution and compare it with AIG’s actual offered amount, deductible, and form rather than treating either figure as guaranteed capacity. [2] [1]

Fraud Scenarios and Application Forms

AIG lists employee dishonesty, theft on premises, forgery, computer-systems fraud, and impersonation fraud among its bond examples. Beazley describes employee theft and third-party losses including forgery, transit loss, counterfeit currency, computer fraud, and client-property loss, with dedicated FI bond forms. A financial institution should match those scenarios to its requested insuring agreements and confirm that any social-engineering request is actually included in the fidelity form. [1] [2]

What Should You Confirm in AIG and Beazley Fidelity Bonds Quotes?

  • Ask Beazley which FI bond form and limit apply and whether fraudulent-instruction coverage is included in that bond. [2]
  • Ask AIG to list the covered fraud agreements, bond amount, and deductible in the proposed form. [1]

Beazley advertises Financial Fidelity Bond limits up to $25 million and lists dedicated FI applications; AIG describes common institution-bond losses without a standard amount.

Sources consulted

  1. 01
    Crime and Fidelity Insurance

    AIG · Official AIG page, lines 257–275 and 353–354: separate Financial Institution Bonds section, named financial-institution audience and example covered losses; policy/state availability caveat. AIG’s Financial Lines Applications directory separately lists institution-specific fidelity applications. · accessed 2026-09-30

  2. 02
    Crime and Fidelity

    Beazley · What we offer: Financial Fidelity Bonds for financial institutions; Limits up to US $25,000,000; How can we help; Tools & Resources FI Bond application forms · accessed 2026-09-23

  3. 03
    Glossary of Insurance Terms

    National Association of Insurance Commissioners · Fidelity; Surety Bond · accessed 2026-09-16

  4. 04
    Crime Terms and Conditions

    Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America · I.A.1–3 p.1; III.S pp.8–9; V.B.1–2 pp.18–20; CRI consideration p.1; III.P p.8; V.A.3 pp.16–17; V.A.4 p.17; V.B.3 p.20; IV.L p.15 · accessed 2026-09-16

  5. 05
    Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2008-04: Guidance Regarding ERISA Fidelity Bonding Requirements

    U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration · Q1–Q3 pp.2–3; Q2 pp.2–3 · accessed 2026-09-16

Crime coverage

AIG

  • role: AIG markets Financial Institution Bonds separately from commercial-entity Crime Insurance. This draft covers the named bond family only and does not treat the crime policy as a fidelity bond. Role in this product is limited to the description on the linked AIG source.company-reportedSource ↗
  • eligibility: AIG names banks, non-bank lenders, asset managers and insurance companies as financial-institution bond audiences. The page does not establish eligibility for a specific entity or jurisdiction. Audience is the segment AIG names on the linked source; this is not an underwriting decision, quote or guarantee of availability.company-reportedSource ↗
  • coverage: AIG lists employee dishonesty, theft on premises, forgery, computer-systems fraud and impersonation fraud among financial-institution bond coverage examples. These examples are subject to the actual bond form and do not define all terms. AIG’s public product description is not the policy. Actual entitlement depends on the applicable issued form, endorsements and declarations.company-reportedSource ↗
  • services: AIG describes dedicated underwriting and claims teams for its crime and fidelity offerings. The application directory includes distinct fidelity applications by financial-institution type; this is an application path, not a bound bond. The linked page describes company-reported support; specific account services and third-party arrangements must be confirmed.company-reportedSource ↗
  • limits: The reviewed pages do not state a standard bond amount or buyer-specific deductible. Confirm the bond form, amount and conditions with AIG for the particular institution. This statement reports only what the linked public source discloses and does not substitute for a quote or issued policy.not-disclosedSource ↗

Beazley

  • role: Beazley underwrites Financial Fidelity Bonds, which it markets specifically to financial institutions, as a separate line from the Commercial Crime product it sells to ordinary commercial companies on the same page. Crime and Fidelity product page; "fidelity bonds" is the name the page uses for the financial-institution version of this crime coverage.company-reportedSource ↗
  • eligibility: Beazley says its expert team underwrites Financial Fidelity Bonds for financial institutions. The page does not name which types of financial institution (e.g., banks, credit unions, broker-dealers) qualify. Product-page target-customer statement; no institution-type list or asset-size threshold is published.company-reportedSource ↗
  • coverage: Beazley describes fidelity bonds as protecting a financial institution from loss of money and securities caused by employee theft, plus third-party-related losses such as forgery or alteration, on-premises and in-transit loss, money-order and counterfeit-currency fraud, computer fraud, client-property loss, credit-card fraud and related expenses. Product page's general description of crime/fidelity coverage; the page does not itemize a separate insuring-agreement list for fidelity bonds versus Commercial Crime.company-reportedSource ↗
  • coverage: The reviewed page attributes its fraudulent-instruction (social-engineering) insuring agreement and out-of-band-authentication condition to "our Commercial Crime policy" specifically. It does not state that Financial Fidelity Bonds include this same insuring agreement. Checked against the full product page text as of 2026-09-23; absence of a fidelity-bond-specific statement is not evidence the coverage is unavailable to financial institutions.not-foundSource ↗
  • limits: The product page advertises limits of up to US $25,000,000 for this line without separately breaking out a fidelity-bond-specific maximum from the Commercial Crime figure on the same page. Shared headline limit figure; retentions and bond-specific sub-limits are not published.company-reportedSource ↗
  • application: Beazley lists dedicated Financial Institution bond application forms in its Tools & Resources: FI Bond Form 14, Form 15, Form 24 and Form 25, separate from the Commercial Crime application forms on the same page. Tools & Resources section of the product page; the page does not describe an online quote or self-service purchase flow.company-reportedSource ↗
  • services: Beazley says its underwriting and claims professionals for this product family work side by side so that the original underwriting intent is respected when a claim arises. Company-stated internal process description applying to the Crime and Fidelity product family generally; no fidelity-bond-specific service is separately described.company-reportedSource ↗
  • claims: The product page links to Beazley's general claim-notification channel for this line. It does not disclose a claims response-time commitment or a dedicated claims process specific to Financial Fidelity Bonds. Product page "Notify a Claim" link as read on 2026-09-23; response times were not found.not-disclosedSource ↗

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