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Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
£40m buy for Misys.
Software group Misys has acquired Financial Options, the independent financial adviser network, for ...
World Athletics Championships.
Iron Trades employee Joice Maduaka will be hoping its third time lucky when she runs with the 4x100m...
Brokers briefed for rates rise.
A major insurer is writing to brokers to explain the value of insurance in society. CGU has taken...
Appointment at Angel Assistance.
Legal expenses insurer Angel Assistance has appointed Sussanne Chambers as its new sales director. M...
RSA knows a goods deal when it sees one.
It would seem the mainstream insurance industry is finally waking up to modern marketing practices a...
Appointment at Scottish Mutual.
Scottish Mutual Portfolio Managers has made two appointments. Kathryn Wood becomes investment manage...
Royal & Sun Alliance deal.
Royal & Sun Alliance has signed a deal with national retailers Dixons, Signet and Halfords to provid...
V can be victory for financing.
Insurance intermediary BDML Connect is urging firms to re-think finance deals to tie in with twice-y...
Appointment at Financial Telemarketing Services.
Martin Shields, one of the founder members of the call centre industry in the UK, has joined Boreham...
Insurers dismiss LTC proposals.
The industry was still seeking guidance in the long-term care market as proposals that care costs be...
CIN-ners join Aon.
Brokers Aon Risk Services has acquired claims software provider Claims Information Network from the ...
Appointment at Commerce nti.
Sacha Gregoriou has been made marketing assistant by Commerce nti. She joins Commerce nti from manag...
A new way forward.
In light of the much discussed skills shortage in the insurance industry, Post Magazine and recruitment consultants Joslin Rowe conducted a survey of insurance human resources managers to find out what is being done to combat the problem.
CCS gets on panel.
Loss Recovery Insurance has appointed CCS Global Claims Consultants and Loss Adjusters to its panel ...
Time squeeze on claims.
New procedures for debt recovery claims inadvertently apply to complex multi-party reinsurance dispu...
NU's bargain web deal.
Insurance intermediaries can now untangle the mystery of the Web thanks to Norwich Union. The ins...
Appointment at PeopleDoc.
PeopleDoc has made Benny Placido vice-president of sales, and Gareth Hobson sales manager. Mr Placid...
All cost, no benefit?
The Woolf reforms imposed extra costs on professional indemnity insurers but Simon Chandler argues that imaginative use of the new rules can bring immediate financial benefits, as a recent case illustrates.
St Paul opens risk centre.
St Paul International Insurance has formed a Risk Management Resource Centre at its headquarters in ...
Should I stay or should I go?
As salaries rise and law firms lose whole teams, Alex Broad finds out what makes solicitors abandon ship more often now than ever before.
Euclidian in £29m management buyout.
Consolidation in the Lloyd's insurance market continued apace with the news of a management buy-out ...
Lutine Trophy Race.
The St Paul team is one of 23 competing in the Lutine Trophy Race, which sets off today from Great Y...
Insurers fail to pass the staff test.
An industry is only as good as the people that work in it and, by inference, as those that are attra...