Regulation
Bancassurance exposes culture clash says FSA
Bancassurance developments should be watched carefully, Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Serv...
RSA e-procurement gets green light
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance has completed the first phase of an e-procurement system designed to sav...
Overseas business accounts for a quarter of UK insurance premiums
Nearly £30bn ($45.5bn), or about 25%, of total UK insurance sector gross premiums came from overseas ...
Online aircraft coverage for brokers
A fully interactive online aircraft insurance website - aeroinsure.com - has been launched by special...
Frankel sentenced.
A German state court has sentenced US bond trader Martin Frankel to three years in prison following ...
Appointment at The Mortgage Compliance Board.
Richard Fox has been made compliance director of watchdog the Mortgage Code Compliance Board. He joi...
No chuckles left for Chuck.
California's insurance commissioner Chuck Quackenbush resigned last week rather than testify under o...
The opening at Prudential's listing ceremony.
The opening bell at Prudential's listing ceremony, on 28 June, on the New York Stock Exchange. Those...
Eureko seeks new UK partner.
A pan-European consortium of insurers could seek a new UK partner for its fledgling financial servic...
Insurers welcome stakeholder step down
Insurers have welcomed the government's decision not to exclude occupational pension scheme members f...
LPC sale is on the horizon.
The sale of the London Processing Centre could happen within months following the Annual General Mee...
Policies cancelled.
Letters of cancellation are to go out to 35 000 doomed Drake Insurance policyholders tomorrow with t...
Over '50s online.
A specialist broker for the over '50s has become the latest recruit to Inspop, the online insurance ...
Pensions advice.
The Financial Services Consumer Panel has urged the FSA to deal with the issue of the affordability ...
Safety measures halt the flow of marine casualties.
Reduced shipping traffic, the International Safety Management Code and Port State Controls have led ...
Trustees of pension schemes to declare their ethical policies.
Trustees of pension schemes now have to declare their ethical policies. Under the amendment to th...
Eureko looks to expand
Eureko, the pan-European financial services group is to float within the next 18 months, with a dual ...
New Eureko to hit acquisition trail
Achmea of the Netherlands and Banco Comercial Portugues are to merge their insurance businesses with ...
ERC's one-stop shop.
US-based Employers Re (ERC) is to rationalise its Canadian property and casualty operations to make ...
Three's a crowd.
John Butler reviews the implications for reinsurers of the UK's latest legislation on the rights of third parties.
Worst year for Munich Re.
1999 was the worst year for natural catastrophe losses in Munich Re's 120-year history, the group ha...
Getting together.
Consolidating arbitrations may be the most efficient way to solve a multi-party dispute, but can arbitrations legally be consolidated? Peter Chaffetz (pictured) and Steven Schwartz investigate.
French reinsurers' profits plummet.
French reinsurers saw their net result fall by almost two thirds to Fr 970m ($141m) in 1999 from Fr ...
Tightrope walker.
As chief executive of Lloyd's, Nick Prettejohn has to tread a fine line to keep all sectors of the market happy. He tells Janina Clark about his balancing act.