Commercial
Waiting for the gun.
Brokers are on their blocks and insurers in training for the start of the 1999 Insurance Athletic As...
Can't PAY won't PAY.
A company can face disaster if a client refuses or is unable to settle a major bill. Simon Threadgold says that this is where credit insurance can make the difference between going under and surviving.
Fired up on Cannon Street.
North West corporate broker Alec Finch & Company has opened an office in London. The premises in ...
Axa deal offers real-time quotes.
Axa Sun Life has teamed up with Netscape to offer the UK's first real-time Internet quotation servic...
£1.26 acquisition.
Danish banking company Unidanmark is set to buy insurer Tryg-Baltica Forsikring for $1.26bn. The mov...
Be heard or you may be sorry.
The select committee considering the Financial Services & Markets Bill, which held its first public ...
Allianz goes global.
Allianz is set to unveil its new logo from the end of the month following its acquisition of AGF. Al...
Demand for wedding insurance.
Californian caterers and hoteliers are increasingly demanding that couples set to marry carry weddin...
£5bn in kitty to buy.
The chairman of Dutch finance group ING has said it is planning to buy a US life insurance company b...
Miami nice Fortis deal.
Dutch/Belgian group Fortis has announced it has agreed to pay £2.6bn cash for Miami-based credit ins...
ABI's travel guide.
To ensure that Brits abroad have great holidays and not grating horrordays, the Association of Briti...
NU responds to IFAs with new term cover.
Norwich Union has developed a new term insurance product with enhanced levels of critical illness co...
The ART of the matter.
Brendan Lawlor argues that despite redundancies caused by consolidation, the take up of alternative risk transfer could create new opportunities for brokers and underwriters prepared to retrain.
NIG product pack.
NIG Skandia has introduced an information pack detailing the range of personal and commercial produc...
Good call over taped selling.
I agree with your editorial about the taping of telephone calls with customers ('Everyone wins with ...
Alliance tackles ADR.
The International Underwriting Association of London and the Lloyd's Underwriters' Association hope ...
Directory of firms.
Equifax and Yellow Pages have joined forces to produce a CD-ROM that allows small companies to maxim...
No laughing matter.
Comedian Roy Walker (above) chaired a recent Iron Trades' conference for intermediaries. Principles ...
More jobs fall under axe at NU.
Norwich Union this week announced another 230 proposed redundancies as part of the integration of in...
Preferential Travel Insurance.
Preferential Travel Insurance has decided to add avalanche cover to its specialist winter sports pol...
Woodburn is first GISC chief.
Months of speculation ended on Tuesday with the announcement that Chris Woodburn would be the first ...
A quest for profitability.
An holistic approach by fleet motor insurers could be the only answer in this currently soft market, but risk management still holds the key to success, claims Andrew Newman.
Appointment at Co-operative Insurance.
Stephen Wood, head of investments and deputy general manager at CIS, is to retire this month. Mr Woo...
The Big Gdanski.
European financial services and insurance group Eureko has launched a pension fund in Poland in part...