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Davies refuses to put FSA name to mortgages.
Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Services Authority has ignored demands for the regulator to...
Appointment at Joslin Rowe.
Former Scottish and British Lions rugby captain Gavin Hastings OBE has been appointed as a non-execu...
Britannic stands by door-to-door sales.
Britannic Assurance has reported a near 9% rise in pre-tax profits and reaffirmed its commitment to ...
Everyone wins with taped calls.
The most important section of the Insurance Ombudsman's annual report is the passage about the use o...
UK takeover.
The retail insurance division of CSC Financial Services is to take over responsibility for the UK op...
Centrica picks Aon.
Aon Consulting has been appointed by the energy and service group, Centrica, to administer its pensi...
Book now or miss out.
The not-to-be missed Post Magazine strategic business conference, Insurance 99, is next Thursday, 18...
Appointment at CS Rand.
Bernie Hopkins has been made managing director of CS Rand. Previously he was the company's finance u...
Share Watch.
They say that share buy-backs are the last resort of a management team which has lost its direction,...
Eagle Star sold to ERC Frankona.
ERC Frankona has bought Eagle Star Re from Zurich Financial Services for an undisclosed sum, in a mo...
Vote of confidence for Polaris.
Polaris, which was set up to provide common standards in electronic trading services, has said it pl...
IOPC signs deal with Italian government.
The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund has signed a £42.9m deal with the Italian governme...
Purr-fect ISAs?
Virgin Direct has launched three CAT standard Individual Savings Accounts. The stocks and shares, ca...
Appointment at Pegasystems.
Rob Dalzall has joined Pegasystems as a European sales manager for the insurance market. Previously ...
Post price goes up.
The price of Post Magazine is to go up from 1 April after five years at the same level. However, any...
All change in broker top 50.
Only four of the top 50 profit-making insurance brokers in 1993 are still there according to the lat...
Union would never 'welcome' the mass loss of jobs.
I refer to your news item headed 'Union supports scrapping sales force' (PM 4 March p4). It states t...
Tracker signal led police to crime ring.
A stolen truck's £360 Tracker device helped police smash a £2.5m vehicle crime ring, Warwickshire Cr...
Condemnation of hike in IPT.
The Post team reports on insurers' reactions to Tuesday's Budget.
Insurers brush off league plans.
The Financial Services Authority's plans to publish a family of league tables on savings and investm...
Bolam blasts broker survey.
A broker survey has been slammed for taking the profession "backwards, not forwards". Simon Bolam...
Taking it like a man.
A new survey has discovered what women have known for years - most men have the morals of an unscrup...
New claims player.
A new claims settlement and service company, European Claims Organisation, has entered the market pl...
RSA asks brokers to back rates rise.
Royal & Sun Alliance has called on brokers to help it push up rates to a more realistic level. Th...