Regulation
Insurers brush off league plans.
The Financial Services Authority's plans to publish a family of league tables on savings and investm...
Green light for Bill.
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill passed through its final Parliamentary stages on Monday evening ...
Select committee gets underway.
The special select committee to consider the draft Financial Services & Markets Bill held its first ...
Rethink on Bill is a victory for common sense.
The government has made an important and timely concession in relation to the powers and modus opera...
Offer of £7000 free life cover.
Vauxhall Finance hopes to boost customer retention with a new offer. Any eligible Vauxhall Financ...
Put yourself in the know.
Risk managers get together to moan, groan or to hone in on the best way to manage risk as pressures ...
Disc plea is like a broken record.
The clamour for windscreen insurance discs is rising again, with magistrates joining the call for th...
Now the talking can really start.
David Worsfold looks at what might be on the agenda for the newly-appointed select committee which will review the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
Bond buying switch.
Following Allianz's threat to pull out of Germany because of proposed punitive taxes, Mannheimer Ver...
Keeping an eye on mis-selling.
The financial services sector has itself been the focus of many professional indemnity claims. Peter Shave examines the issues.
Pru's pay revamp woos staff and insurers.
The Life Insurance Association has hailed Prudential's move away from a commission-based pay scheme ...
Profits on the up - The Prudential Corporation.
The Prudential Corporation saw operating profit from continuing operations up 3% to £860m. Its total...
Two of a kind.
Adrian Leonard finds both Lloyd's and the London company market going from strength to strength.
Lloyd's to Norway.
Lloyd's has been authorised to transact most classes of non-life business in Norway following the re...
Reveal now or pay later.
John Butler focuses on the duty of disclosure and its impact on liability.
Millennium monitoring.
Larissa Knepper outlines the rating agency approach to insurers' Y2K exposures.
Jenkins heads up IUA marine team.
Former Institute of London Underwriters chairman Nigel Jenkins is to chair the International Underwr...
INdeR deal hits more problems.
Creditors of Argentina's state-owned reinsurer, the Instituto Nacional de Reaseguros (INdeR), which ...
All agreed: get IT, get global and get ahead.
Debate at the London Processing Centre's conference focused on how to streamline the London market's procedures and practices. Alex Beatty reports.
Food for thought.
Lunch Forum guests tackle the liability issues surrounding genetically modified crops. Janina Clark reports.
A green light for change.
Major reforms are expected if the EC's proposals on environmental liability are accepted, says Valerie Fogleman.
Transatlantic rating.
Transatlantic Re has received an 'Aa1' (excellent) financial strength rating from rating agency Mood...
London takes a bow.
It has been a long time since we carried as positive a piece about the London market as our report o...
Rhine Re joins International Underwriting Association.
Rhine Re, which plans to start underwriting in the London market in the latter part of this year (Re...