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Last gasp bid to stall Finance Bill.
Insurance trade bodies have made a last minute combined bid to stall the enactment of a clause in th...
If polarisation ain't broke, don't fix it, says Hunt.
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has warned the Financial Services Authority that w...
That is, an iE deal.
Generali International, a subsidiary of the Generali Group, has announced a new contract with e-fina...
Eurobase frees data for captives.
Software and consultancy supplier Eurobase has launched its Synergy for Captives underwriting system...
Appointment at Swiss Re.
Swiss Re's recent general meeting saw George Farr re-elected as president. In addition to this, P...
By jingo-ism.
In the 10 July 1915 issue, a subtle form of jingoism today known - perhaps ironically - as schadenfr...
Appointment at Prettys.
Clive Brynley-Jones, who has been chairman of Ipswich-based Prettys Partnership for some years, now ...
Typhoon Kirogi brushes Japan
Japan's (re)insurers are breathing a sigh of relief as the first typhoon to affect the country this s...
St Paul Re management changes
New York-based St Paul Re is reshuffling its management and creating a separate financial solutions u...
GISC rule ammendments
The General Insurance Standards Council has issued a number of amendments to its rule book - due for ...
Bancassurance exposes culture clash says FSA
Bancassurance developments should be watched carefully, Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Serv...
RSA e-procurement gets green light
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance has completed the first phase of an e-procurement system designed to sav...
SLPH delisted as Axa pays £2.3bn for subsidiary
French insurance group Axa's buyout of the minority shareholding in its UK subsidiary Sun Life & Prov...
Trust is key to insurance e-commerce
Insurers need to cultivate trust among young consumers in order to increase insurance sales over the ...
Overseas business accounts for a quarter of UK insurance premiums
Nearly £30bn ($45.5bn), or about 25%, of total UK insurance sector gross premiums came from overseas ...
Layton Blackham adds Whitehorse
Broker Layton Blackham has made its fifth acquisition in six months with the addition of the Whitehor...
M&S puts household contract in place
Marks & Spencer Financial Services has appointed Service Master as the sole supplier of restoration s...
Hannover Life Re backs Mid-Continent buy
Florida-based Hannover Life Re of America is to finance the acquisition of Mid-Continent Life Insuran...
Dowling quits IPC Re
John Dowling, Bermuda-based IPC Re's president and chief executive, has announced that he is to take ...
Financial services industry confidence falls
Business confidence among financial service firms has fallen for the first time in the last 18 months...
US insurers pay $1.4bn in Q2 cat losses
Insured catastrophe losses of just $1.4bn gave US property/casualty insurers a welcome reprieve in th...
Chartwell teams join The Underwriter
Insurer The Underwriter, has recruited two teams of UK regional general liability underwriters from C...
Online aircraft coverage for brokers
A fully interactive online aircraft insurance website - aeroinsure.com - has been launched by special...
Taylor moves to ABI.
Richard Taylor has joined the Association of British Insurers as head of research. He takes up the n...