Regulation
ALM backs byelaws.
The Association of Lloyd's Members is set to oppose a move to axe two byelaws passed in September. O...
Hewitt hits out at IFA Association.
A House of Commons debate last Tuesday on the pensions mis-selling saga saw angry confrontations bet...
EOC in maternity pay row.
In a case involving maternity pay, the applicants were all employees of the Equal Opportunities Comm...
Independent Insurance sponsors under-14s football club.
Edenbridge United Football Club's under-14s are to assert their independence with a new strip for th...
Global climate change conference.
Insurance experts were in Buenos Aires this week to address governments from around the world at the...
Assitalia continues Italian invasion into the capital.
The London market received a further boost this week with the news that Italian insurer Assitalia ha...
Yasuda says software will end fraud.
Claims fraud that costs insurers millions of pounds a year will soon be a thing of the past followin...
A clean sweep on pollution.
Michael Gaughan asks who will have to wake up to new liabilities as the Environment Act begins to bite.
Appointment at Bacon & Woodrow.
John Oliver, former finance director at law firm Eversheds, has joined actuarial consultants Bacon &...
Slump in Citigroup profits.
Citigroup, the new combination of Travelers and Citicorp, has reported a a 50% drop in third quarter...
Appointment at Financial Services Authority.
The FSA has made several appointments. Geoffrey King, most recently group secretary of Guinness, has...
Dissecting insurance for a quarter of a century.
The Geneva Association is celebrating its 25th anniversary this autumn. What's the Geneva Associatio...
Pensions value drops by £12bn.
Some £12bn has been wiped off the value of pooled pensions assets in the last three months. Figur...
Euro to cause Y2K-type crisis.
The insurance industry has been warned to expect an increasing number of mergers, joint ventures and...
Jones gets tough in drive for single IFA representative body.
The Chairman of the IFA Association has turned up the pressure in his bid to see a single profession...
So many questions, but where are the answers?
The debate over broker regulation has, in my view, reached unprecedented levels of bitterness and ac...
Exclusive - Generali Global to open in London.
Italian insurance giant Generali is set to reveal the opening of 'Generali Global' in the UK at a pr...
IFAs can learn from phase 2.
The attempt by the IFA Association to persuade the government to cancel the second phase of the pens...
£36m in Allstate's 'quake kitty.
Giant American insurer Allstate has set aside £36m to pay for an independent review of nearly 10,000...
Pru's £250k deal.
Prudential has signed a long-term agreement to use ISL's Risk Selection and Marketing software in a ...
Credit agency to examine merger.
International credit rating agency Standard & Poors is unimpressed with plans for Ireland's biggest-...
Ridiculous' and 'stupid' behaviour of ABI over Y2K.
Regarding the year 2000 problems, I find the response of the insurance industry to this matter - and...
NewRo move pours fuel on regulatory row.
Any hope of consensus in the general insurance regulatory row was blown away with the revelation tha...
Insurer looks to MPs to save polarisation.
A campaign to safeguard the concept of polarisation in the selling of insurance and pension products...