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Irish firm in Gibraltar move
Irish wholesale underwriting agency ARB has become the latest company to set up in Gibraltar with th...
Appointment at Fusion Insurance
Fusion Insurance has recruited Stuart Rouse as finance director to be based in London. He is a chart...
What the papers said this week
THE TIMES Royal & Sun Alliance is looking to raise as much as £600m from the sale of its closed lif...
Appointment at Ascot Underwriting
Lloyd's managing agent Ascot Underwriting, whose Syndicate 1414 is backed by AIG, has appointed Torq...
Scheme to cap outsourcing
The trend of insurers outsourcing jobs overseas is unlikely to accelerate due to moves outlined in t...
Appointment at Keelan Westall
Bordon-based Keelan Westall has promoted David Gayton to sales and agency manager. He joined the com...
Picture perfect
Insurer Hiscox is sponsoring the Quentin Blake Gallery of Illustration Exhibition, which is being he...
Gender: insurers fight ban
John Greenway MP has called on insurers to get behind the Association of British Insurers and lobby ...
Tribune may be hit with police action
The collapse of Edinburgh-based underwriting agency Tribune Risk & Insurance Services has left a tra...
GISC takes out intervention order
The Enforcement Committee of the General Insurance Standards Council has taken out an intervention o...
Broker network merger mooted
Irish intermediary network Source Brokers and UK-based Midland Broker Alliance have signed a referra...
Windsor reports increase in pre-tax profit
Listed broker Windsor has reported a 21% increase in pre-tax profit to £4.04m for the 12 months ende...
The St Paul restructures professional indemnity team
The St Paul has restructured its UK professional indemnity team and rebranded it as St Paul Professi...
Zurich to outsource IT staff to IBM
Zurich Financial Services is transferring 164 IT staff to IBM as part of a global outsourcing deal a...
Fresh snaps up the competition
Specialist niche insurance intermediary Fresh has acquired the female motor insurance brand, Tulip, ...
Dr Robert Davies warns insurers
Dr Robert Davies, director, Imhotep, warned insurers not to just focus on reducing cost through outs...
Appointment at DAS UK
Ray Kneeshaw, sales & marketing manager of DAS UK, has joined the board of DAS Ireland, alongside Ad...
Historic Dimond ruling reversed by Lords
The credit hire industry still faces a bleak future, despite a significant victory by credit hire co...
Xchanging project to deliver £70m savings
IT support company Xchanging expects to deliver the first phase of its electronic settlement solutio...
Appointment at Euler Hermes UK
Euler Hermes UK has recruited James Daly as commercial director. With extensive experience of workin...
FSA should make serious consideration
The Financial Services Authority should seriously consider making the wholesaling of insurance subje...
Hear all about it
Risking Everything is the title of three programmes about the insurance industry past and present du...
Lee Gladwell outlines benefits of using outsourcer
Lee Gladwell, business development director, Capita Insurance Services, said one of the main benefit...
Nationwide agrees to place family legal protection cover with DAS
Nationwide Building Society has agreed to place its family legal protection cover with DAS. The move...