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Playing hardball.
As head of insurance giant Axa, Claude Bebear has overseen several major insurance company mergers. Here he outlines his own philosophy of how to manage the change, an approach that is certainly not one of softly softly.
Website toolkit.
Eurobase, the software and consultancy supplier to the financial services sector, has launched a new...
Hanks takes Groupama job.
Lloyd Hanks has been headhunted by Groupama to head the sales & agency operations of its personal in...
Appointment at The Quest Partnership.
Nick Dell has joined liability adjusters The Quest Partnership as claims controller. Previously he w...
Insurers set for IT spree.
Insurance companies will spend at least five times more on e-commerce in 2000 than in 1998, with ret...
Mortgage software to save time and money.
Brokers and advisers working in the mortgage sector are being promised savings of hundreds of pounds...
More consolidation around the corner.
The UK insurance industry is ripe for consolidation, said Trevor May, director, insurance at Salomon...
Power shift strengthens insurers.
Brokers will continue to exist and thrive because insurance is still a purchase that needs to be act...
Lloyd's wins US court victory over Names cash.
Lloyd's has welcomed a US court judgment that moves it one step closer to retrieving monies owed by ...
New L&G account.
Legal & General Bank has launched a new pensions account for trustees. The account is aimed at ad...
Plea to IFAs to reject commission-only work.
Independent financial advisers will today be urged to shun commission-only work in favour of fee-bas...
Chinese insurance wall close to falling.
The trade deal concluded last week between China and America has failed to provide a new window of o...
Appointment at Farr.
Risk management and insurance adviser to housing associations Farr has made three promotions. Accoun...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Former patients who claim their lives were ruined after being prescribed LSD ...
Don't be fooled by profits says Mitchell.
One of the most striking features of the UK non-life market's performance in 1998 was that while und...
Driller thriller.
When Brit art darling Damien Hirst turned his attention from dead cows to bathroom cabinets, his den...
Appointment at First Quadrant.
Quantative investment management firm First Quadrant has appointed Eoin Murray as senior portfolio m...
Waiting for the technology.
Ten year's ago PM reported how London market underwriters couldn't wait to bypass brokers with elect...
BBB for Eureko.
Eureko - the holding company for the pan-European alliance of financial service companies - has been...
Government slammed for failing small firms.
Ailing life insurer Reliance Mutual blasted government and financial regulators for failing to suppo...
New mortgage range from NU.
Norwich Union has launched a range of mortgages designed to offer customers more options in light of...
We missed you.
A E Wyeth, the Anderson Partnership, Berryman's Lace Mawer, Clifford Chance, Elliotts and Forbes & P...
Lingo bingo.
Robyn Howard explains how insurers can attract candidates with language skills into the call centre industry.
PMI must be pulled out of nosedive before its too late.
Private medical insurance is slowly being squeezed by the government. The forceful anti-private m...