Editor's comment: All action, no talk
Mergers & acquisitions have definitely dominated the insurance headlines this week. Nothing unusual in that — except, for once, it's been more a case of all action and little talk, rather than the reverse, as is so typically the case. But it also remains a tale of two halves.
First we had the romance. The cuddly coming-together, stronger-as-one merger song is being sung by the trade bodies, as the long-predicted tie-up between the British Insurance Brokers' Association and
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