Regulation
Cover for MPs to wait.
The decision on the exact level of cover to be given to MPs by the motion passed on 23 May will have...
UK missing out on Canadian mix.
UK insurers are in danger of missing out on Canada's emerging commercial insurance opportunities, Ro...
Pru down in UK but up abroad
Prudential recorded a 14% increase in first-half operating profits to £425m on the back of growth in ...
PWC: e-rule warning.
Financial services consulting group PricewaterhouseCoopers has called for a change in the regulation...
Orphans move raises hopes.
Other insurer's could follow Axa's lead in buying out policyholders' interests in inherited estates ...
Fortis set to buy US insurer
The international insurer and financial services group Fortis has reached an agreement today to acqui...
A policy of rate and see.
A new company is to rate the business performance of brokers and intermediaries, allowing small high street players to be compared to their larger counterparts. Carne Curgenven explains how it will work to Anthony Gould.
ABI disappointed over Bill.
The Association of British Insurers said it was "disappointed" the government failed to introduce a ...
L&G review orphan assets but rule out Equitable deal
Legal and General ruled itself out of the bidding for Equitable Life yesterday on the day the beleagu...
Training initiative.
Four industry bodies have teamed up to develop training and competence toolkits for financial advise...
Equitas surplus up.
Equitas, set up to reinsure and run off the 1992 and prior years' on-life liabilities of Lloyd's syn...
ECGD review a missed opportunity
The International Underwriting Association believes the government missed an opportunity in its revie...
Insurers get green light from FSA over inheritance
The Financial Services Authority has given the thumbs up to Axa's proposed transfer of the policies a...
Insurers welcome ruling on suing barristers
Barristers have been stripped of the immunity that they have enjoyed for two centuries following a la...
Paddick to push ahead with regulatory plan
Andrew Paddick, director general of the Institute of Insurance Brokers has written to brokers confirm...
Equitas increases reserves
Equitas, the company set up by Lloyd's to reinsure and run off its pre-1993 non-life liabilities, has...
Trans-Atlantic teaming.
General insurance actuary English Matthews Brockman and US actuarial consultancy Miller Herbers Lehm...
GISC is not for turning.
The General Insurance Standards Council will not reverse its initial recommendations on solvency req...
Charity begins at the office for database.
The Unclaimed Assets Register is to share 10% of all search fees it earns between the three charitie...
FSA's Canary chat.
The Financial Services Authority is to hold a pilot annual meeting at its offices in Canary Wharf, L...
... a local authority risk manager.
David Worsfold spent a day with Ian Horwood, Wycombe District Council's risk manager, and finds a man both persistant and passionate about his job.
RSA on track to save £20m.
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance claims it is on target to save £20m following the completion of the fir...
Carrol re-elected.
Tim Carrol has been re-elected chairman of the International Underwrting Association of London. Mr C...
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...