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A&L travel discount.
Alliance & Leicester is offering a holiday bonus for customers taking out a new personal loan, curre...
Halifax denies it is poised to buy Bupa for £2bn.
The Halifax bank has rubbished claims that it is lining up a £2bn bid for private healthcare group B...
System is 'go' after trial success.
A new electronic underwriting system is to be used by Lloyd's syndicates after it passed a trial wit...
BUPA locked in row with VHI over medical cover.
A row has erupted over the extent of private medical cover in Ireland. The chairman of BUPA Irela...
Annual HBC golf day.
More than 80 motor insurance professionals braved Boyce Hill's wind swept Essex course for the annua...
It was a Knockout.
It was soak-a-broker day at the Hartley Coopers & Warner's 'It's a Knockout Challenge'. Over 40 brok...
Caption Competition.
What a popular man Andy Homer is. There was a surprisingly large - and largely insulting - entry for...
Shop rage on the up.
Shop rage is soaring according to a survey carried out by Barclays Merchant Services. The survey, wh...
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...
IBRC scheme won by IIB.
The Insurance Brokers Registration Council (IBRC) will continue to exist after 31 October with a new...
Mergers hit brokers.
Guy Bessis, managing director of Willis Corroon's global property and casualty energy practice, said...
Engaged in a phone war.
Insurers are taking-on telephone watchdog OFTEL after it announced it aimed to radically change free...
New moves to prevent IFAs suffering trial by tax.
Independent financial advisers who invest in trust funds have been warned to plan ahead or suffer tr...
Low interest rate hurts investments.
Japan's continued low interest rate policy has hurt returns in investment made by Japanese life insu...
A jobhunter's dream come true.
Jobhunters seeking work in financial services now have access to a plethora of vacancies at their fi...
Insurers rally to safety drive.
Road safety was the big theme for insurers at the opening of the British International Motor Show in...
Virgin Direct launches two-for-one cover.
Virgin Direct customers can now get two-for-one following a decision to merge life and illness cover...
Towergate Underwriting Group acquires Strovers Limited.
Towergate Underwriting Group has named Strovers Limited as the latest in a long line of acquisitions...
IBM disaster plan.
IBM has announced a disaster recovery capability for Windows NT. In conjunction with the new Busines...
Pru's Egg is truly scrambled.
Why am I not surprised that the Pru has ended up with Egg on its face with its latest banking launch...
Winterthur uses stroke of GENIUS.
Winterthur International, the global insurance subsidiary of the Credit Suisse Group, has gone 'live...
Seminars drive home new work regulations.
Royal SunAlliance Engineering is to embark on a series of seminars to educate people on two imminent...