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Lloyd's FD to quit to join Aviva

Andrew Moss, the director - finance, risk management and operations at Lloyd's, is set to join UK insurance giant Aviva as its new group finance director. A starting date has yet to be confirmed.

29 Jan 2004

Lloyd's FD to quit to join Aviva

Andrew Moss, the director - finance, risk management and operations at Lloyd's, is set to join UK insurance giant Aviva as its new group finance director. A starting date has yet top be confirmed.

29 Jan 2004

UKI Partnerships wins Stroud & Swindon Building Society contract

UKI Partnerships has won the household insurance account for Stroud and Swindon Building Society, available throughout its 22-branch network.

27 Jan 2004

Axa loses two heads to Groupama

Phil Bird will be joining Groupama from Axa as director of non-motor and SME underwriting, while Kate Mutter, also from Axa, will be joining Groupama to head the group's sales and agency activities.

23 Jan 2004

New elections to Council of Lloyd's

Five appointments to the Council of Lloyd's, the ultimate governing body of the market, have been made following an election of members which closed at 1.00pm on Monday 19 January 2004.

20 Jan 2004

Cobra appointments boost offering

Independent commercial broking alliance Cobra, has announced three new appointments to strengthen its compliance and broker development teams.

19 Jan 2004

NIG shake up sees Bunker step down as MD

RBS Insurance today announced that Charles Crawford will assume responsibility as managing director of NIG following the decision of Phil Bunker to leave in March 2004.

15 Jan 2004

Brit completes Creechurch property integration

Brit Insurance, a subsidiary of Brit Insurance Holdings, has completed the integration of the Creechurch property insurance portfolio first announced in December 2003.

15 Jan 2004

Axa Insurance looks to reduce headcount by 700 as part of new strategy

Insurer to stop promoting Direct brand and off shore more jobs to India.

14 Jan 2004

Willis looks to Copenhagen

Willis has announced that it has agreed to acquire Copenhagen-based reinsurance broking company Kirecon. The exact terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed.

13 Jan 2004

Capita's non-compete gag expires on Eastgate founders

Specialist non-life run off manager, The Randall Group, has acquired Cavell Management Services and obtained approval from Lloyd's to run its own Managing Agency.

13 Jan 2004

Ilium boosts syndicate with senior appointments

Lloyd's liability syndicate, Illium syndicate 4040, has strengthened its team with the appointment of four underwriters.

12 Jan 2004

Collins steps down as chairman of JLT Risk Solutions

Global broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson today announced that John Lloyd, a director of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, will take up the position of chairman of JLT Risk Solutions Limited with immediate effect.

08 Jan 2004

Broker offshores 200 jobs to South Africa to aid UK expansion

Broking group Budget has announced that it is opening a new contact centre in South Africa. It will be located at Knowledge Park in Century City, Cape Town and is scheduled to open in June 2004.

07 Jan 2004

Groupama recruits new chief actuary

Groupama Insurances has appointed Steven Blake as its new chief actuary.

06 Jan 2004

Aon chief urges UK market reform for 2004

The insurance industry must "get serious" about reform in 2004 or face losing insurance premium from corporate buyers, according to Aon's end of year market review.

22 Dec 2003

New director takes the helm as Groupama confirms distribution strategy

Groupama Insurances has appointed Amanda Blanc into the new role of distribution and customer services director. The moves comes as Groupama confirmed that it is close to finalising work on a new distribution strategy – a project that has involved the…