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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...
Far East - Eastern alliance.
Sri Lanka's largest private insurer Ceylinco Insurance has forged a strategic alliance with Japan's ...
BIB gets bigger.
Darlington-based brokers BIB has been named as one of the north's fastest growing businesses. It has...
Clawless CATS.
CAT-standard mortgages are no substitute for statutory regulation, warns the Financial Services Cons...
New crop of accounts helps boost FarmWeb business.
Intermediary network FarmWeb has reaped a rich harvest representing a 27% increase in business. T...
First of many rehab centres.
A new rehabilitation centre plans to guarantee people get back to work - or it will give insurers th...
Hiscox awarded.
A-Rating agency AM Best has awarded Hiscox Insurance a credit rating of A- (excellent) and has upgra...
Newcomer to commercial lines.
Paul Saffer, a former director of Rebus and NetSoft, has founded a new company designed to facilitat...
Make everyone pay for state care, says ex-DSS chief.
Radical plans for a compulsory new state personal care insurance system, with a key role for private...
MiniBusPlus to expand into e-commerce.
Minibus and fleet insurance specialist MiniBusPlus has restructured its systems team to complement t...
Polarisation decision a year away at the earliest.
Any decision on polarisation is not likely until 2001 at the earliest, according to a Treasury insid...
Web warning.
Household insurers must avoid e-commerce complacency, according to consultants Bacon & Woodrow. Seni...
Five forced into run-off.
Five Lloyd's syndicates are being forced into run-off following US insurer Unum Provident's decision...
Re-entering the space debate.
I am concerned at several statements attributed to SBW in your story 'Lloyd's facing black hole in s...
US giant picks NU.
America's fourth largest credit card issuer, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co, has chosen Norwich Uni...
Mapping and web.
Giant Italian insurer Assitalia aims to put its brokers on the map with the launch of its website de...