Commercial
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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...
Exclusive - GRIP gets tiger barmy over 'extinct' cat being
Specialist insurance underwriter GRIP has bet £350,000 that the fabled Tasmanian tiger is as dead as...
Budget goes indirect.
Budget Insurance has ditched its direct arm to become a fully fledged intermediary just 12 months af...
Why risk management is coming of age.
Your Risk Management Supplement (17 Sept) highlighted the relationship between insurers and risk man...
Appointment at Amhurst Brown Colombotti.
Eric Gummers has been made a partner with ABC. He joins from Rowe & Maw where he trained and became ...
Appointment at Cornhill Insurance.
Bruce Fertnig has been made branch manager at the London branch of Cornhill Insurance. He joins the ...
Resourcing needs to surge in wake of Y2K and EMU.
Insurance companies expect their resourcing needs to increase after Y2K and EMU problems are out of ...
IFA's new funds.
Aitchinson & Colegrave, Scotland's largest private independent financial adviser, has launched a fun...
Swire Blanch sold in one-off deal.
Lambert Fenchurch has acquired Swire Blanch in a deal described as 'one-off' and denied the move was...
Buy-back completed.
Topdanmark has issued an announcement to the Copenhagen Stock Exchange to say it has completed the s...