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Events.
7 SEPTEMBER The Chartered Insurance Institute's Training and Development Forum London, Chartere...
Carrol re-elected.
Tim Carrol has been re-elected chairman of the International Underwrting Association of London. Mr C...
Equitable Life throws in the towel
UK mutual insurer Equitable Life has thrown in the towel on mutuality following the House of Lords de...
Townends fined.
Townends Financial Consultants of Humberside has been fined £5000, with £1991 costs, by the Personal...
Appointment at DBS Group.
Caroline Caldecott has joined financial management and services group DBS as training and developmen...
NIG's business cover.
Broker-only insurer NIG has launched business cover for firms with a turnover of up to £1m. No clai...
Equitable Life loses test case
Mutual insurer Equitable Life has lost its appeal to the House of Lords. The Lords unanimously upheld...
Hacker knackered?
Southampton-based insurance broker Burnett & Associates has launched a policy to cover businesses hi...
Appointments at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.
A trio of new appointments have been made by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. Mark Philips ha...
Irish base for Halifax insurers.
British bank The Halifax plans to set up two new insurance companies in a multi-million pound invest...
Tell us something we don't know.
Financial exclusion is a crucial issue that has rightly risen up the political agenda in the last fe...
Tired of fatigue?
Research into the assessment of risks arising from mental fatigue has been carried out for the Healt...
Vickers in OFT seat.
Professor John Vickers, chief economist and executive director of the Bank of England, is to take ov...
UK performance boosts CGNU sales
CGNU recorded an 18% increase in total worldwide new business sales, totalling £6.1bn in the first ha...
Lloyd's sells off aviation division
Lloyd's has sold its adjusting aviation department to the Charles Taylor Group for £2.6m. It is the s...
CTG buys Lloyd's Aviation
Lloyd's has sold Lloyd's Aviation, its aviation loss adjusting and surveying service, to the Charles ...
Hodson hits acquisition trail
R P Hodson Insurance Brokers Group, with offices in Leeds, London and Wakefield, has acquired a 76% s...
Actuarial joint venture targets insurers
English Matthews Brockman, the general insurance actuary, has signed a co-operation agreement with US...
S&P downgrades Odyssey Re
Rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength rati...
Financial services lagging behind
Over the past six months, 37% of all internet users purchased non-financial products online, but onl...
Ace International makes on-line alliance
Ace International, the direct insurance operation of Bermuda-based reinsurer Ace, has entered into an...
HSBC launches new customer call centre.
Jaguar's Formula One star Johnny Herbert last week joined Brian Smith, chief executive of Stoke City...
Layton buys again.
Broker Layton Blackham has made its fifth acquisition in six months with the addition of the Whiteho...
Merger talks.
Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank are looking at a merger plan which includes the option of insurer Alli...