Shedding the dead wood
The growing popularity of business transfers under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act has enabled UK insurance companies to offload discontinued business, and their appeal is widening, reports Juliette Stevens
Since their introduction in 2002, the popularity of insurance business transfers in the UK, under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act, has been growing. In the last four years nearly
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