Commercial
Axa picks lock firm.
Emergency response company Highway Glass and Locks has been appointed sole provider of glass frames ...
Insurers to keep euro assets.
Japan's major life insurers are to hold on to their euro-denominated assets - a decision described b...
DBS scraps national conference to regionalise.
Independent financial adviser chain DBS is increasing its regional meeting programme. It is set t...
Stake for sale.
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings has put its 49% stake in PPP Columbia, the joint venture which runs f...
Police ready for riot that never came.
Police at Liverpool Street Station in the City of London were out in force on Tuesday anticipating a...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny feels for Axa bigwig Andy Homer. The jet-setting Mr Homer pulled out all the stops in his hect...
Great Dane.
Recent start-up Danish Re (Re, October 1999, p14) wrote its first risk through its Lloyd's syndicate...
Breaking with tradition.
Dirk Lohmann tells Adrian Leonard why Zurich Re will not be a conventional reinsurer in a few years' time.
Time for action.
It is no good putting it off any longer. Any (re)insurers serious about the Internet and e-commerce ...
Axa Global Risks and Axa Re face merger.
Axa Re and Axa Global Risks have announced plans for a structural review that could see the two unit...
Clued up on e-commerce.
Fear is the main factor holding back the inevitable move to e-commerce in (re)insurance. Janina Clark reports.
Fewer trades and static prices.
This year's auction season suggests that Lloyd's is facing something of a watershed, with the corpor...
Slow to change in San Diego.
Janina Clark found few signs of improvement in the US reinsurance market at the NAII's annual meeting.
New CEO for Axa Ireland.
Axa's reorganisation of its Irish business has continued with the appointment of a new chief executi...
Plastic policy.
NIG Skandia has launched a Plastics Combined policy to add to its growing portfolio of commercial pr...
Insurers set for IT spree.
Insurance companies will spend at least five times more on e-commerce in 2000 than in 1998, with ret...
Mortgage software to save time and money.
Brokers and advisers working in the mortgage sector are being promised savings of hundreds of pounds...
Power shift strengthens insurers.
Brokers will continue to exist and thrive because insurance is still a purchase that needs to be act...
Lloyd's wins US court victory over Names cash.
Lloyd's has welcomed a US court judgment that moves it one step closer to retrieving monies owed by ...
Chinese insurance wall close to falling.
The trade deal concluded last week between China and America has failed to provide a new window of o...
Newcomer to commercial lines.
Paul Saffer, a former director of Rebus and NetSoft, has founded a new company designed to facilitat...
MiniBusPlus to expand into e-commerce.
Minibus and fleet insurance specialist MiniBusPlus has restructured its systems team to complement t...
Web warning.
Household insurers must avoid e-commerce complacency, according to consultants Bacon & Woodrow. Seni...
Re-entering the space debate.
I am concerned at several statements attributed to SBW in your story 'Lloyd's facing black hole in s...