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C&M handling system.
Clerical and Medical's networks of customers and independent financial advisers are being nursed thr...
NU in top gear as Ford deal gets motoring.
Norwich Union and Ford launched their new insurance partnership this week and said they were in it f...
Alliance announced between IFAA and IFP.
The first steps towards the creation of a professional body for independent financial advisers were ...
Insurers play their cards right.
A survey of European insurance CEOs revealed a remarkable degree of unanimity, reports Costas Miranthis.
Michelle wins football prize.
Watford fan Michelle Dean, head of the claims section at Bristol-based Chartwell Underwriting, has w...
Investors cry freedom.
Keith Sankey explains why South Africa has become a land of opportunity for British policyholders.
Brave new world.
In the third of our Across the Millennium articles, Nick Shaw presents a futuristic look at the global insurance market in 2010, when we will be buying cover through robots.
AIRMIC award glory.
AIRMIC members were represented in six out of eight categories in the European Risk Management Award...
Engaged in a phone war.
Insurers are taking-on telephone watchdog OFTEL after it announced it aimed to radically change free...
A jobhunter's dream come true.
Jobhunters seeking work in financial services now have access to a plethora of vacancies at their fi...
Towergate Underwriting Group acquires Strovers Limited.
Towergate Underwriting Group has named Strovers Limited as the latest in a long line of acquisitions...
Bloody-minded' CGU kick up stink over logo.
Industry giant CGU has been slammed as "bloody minded" for pressurising a tiny south coast broker to...
Sales on-line.
Efficient insurance sales on the internet have yet to take off in a big way. Richard Griffiths explores the reasons why.
Third buy for broker.
Broker Oughtred & Harrison has announced its third acquisition in three months giving the company a ...
First e-commerce insurer just around the corner.
The "click here economy" is just around the corner, Philip Crawford, senior vice president of the Or...
A call for Service.
The advent of call centre technology has dramatically changed the way insurers carry out their business. Jonathan Swift looks at the changes ringing through the industry.
No IT, no comment.
The finance sector is, and will continue to be, redefined by the Internet according to a recent repo...
NIG buy in the bag.
NIG Skandia finally completed the acquisition of Hibernian UK on 7 October after the deal was greenl...
Datamining Target.
Marc Farr explains how datamining can help insurers use the masses of electronic information in today's business world to their best advantage.
90s-style of manager.
The insurance industry will need a new breed of manager to meet the challenges of the late 1990s, sa...
ABI: industry calls for an easier read.
Insurers were urged this week to focus their plans to deal with the issue of over complicated produc...
Dennis will be a real menace to networks if they don't shape up.
Dennis Mahoney's warning that Aon will not be paying the bills of more than one network come 1999 sh...
Hiscox: regional expansion hits Harrogate.
Hiscox is to open a new regional office in Harrogate at the end of the month, heralding a multi-mill...
PIA stikes off firms.
The Personal Investment Authority has terminated the membership of two firms. Sole trader Hansons In...