Regulation
Exclusive - Testing time for CMG.
IT Services company CMG has launched a testing device for insurers who need to develop systems which...
ABI makes PASS at cash-strapped IFAs.
A loan fund of £100m has been set aside to bale out independent financial advisers in danger of goin...
Poland opens its pension doors to Norwich Union.
The Polish government has given Norwich Union a licence to sell pensions in the country. NU will ...
A damning body of evidence.
The second UK Bodily Injury Study has just been commissioned by the International Underwriting Association of London and is due out at the end of the year. Phil Ellis describes some of the changes that could result.
DTI portfolio: the kiss of death?
For the best part of 20 years, it seems that the top ministerial job in the Department of Trade and ...
Woolf reforms will lead to legal howlers say insurers.
There is growing concern that the radical reform of the civil litigation system will lead to chaos i...
Industry backs calls for single regulator.
The insurance industry wants a single independent regulator according to the General Insurance Stand...
Second worse year for aviation losses.
The estimated loss of £650,000 for the air crash involving the Leeds United football team last March...
Pensions media blitz branded confusing.
A multi-million pound national media campaign heralding phase 2 of the investigation into pensions m...
Cross-border confusion must come to an end.
Mr Foster, in his letter 'Industry regulation may counter EU law' (PM, 17 Dec, p18) raised a number ...
Howell out, Homer in.
The chairman of the Motor Insurers' Bureau, Les Howell, has stepped down on completion of his four-y...
Cologne brand to be splashed all over the world.
The General & Cologne Re brand has now been fully implemented in the UK with the rest of the world e...
IUA of London came into being this month.
The International Underwriting Association of London came into being this month with the merger agre...
Life industry is acting on public concerns.
The article 'Cornhill calls for register of life policies' (PM, 17 Dec, p4) prompted me to follow up...
Euro countdown.
Eric Mawer considers the impact of the euro on the insurance industry and what companies should be doing.
Insurers are ready for the euro.
Despite the uncertainty of the UK's position over economic and monetary union, insurers are taking s...
IFA's swot up on Phase 2.
Independent financial advisers rushed to discover how to prepare themselves to cope with the fallout...
AMP beats off opposition to snap up NPI.
Australian insurance group AMP has strengthened its position in the UK life market by acquiring NPI ...
Clever packaging can't hide a poor pensions present.
The proposals for overhauling pensions provisions have received a rather mixed press, and rightly so...
Farrant to quit FSA.
Richard Farrant is to leave his post as operating officer of the Financial Services Authority in Jan...
ACA's pensions brief.
The Association of Consulting Actuaries, which provides technical and secretariat support to the 50-...
Pensions Green Paper under fire.
Fears that small companies may abandon existing occupational pension schemes in the light of the Gre...
Bugged by gloom-mongers.
One thing we can be certain of in 1999 is that it will be the year of the Millennium Bug. It seem...
Life lags behind.
Non-life insurance continues to be of significantly greater importance than life insurance in centra...