Managing general agents (MGAs)
Keychoice unveils senior management team
Keychoice Underwriting has unveiled its senior management team as it prepares to launch later this year.
Ex-Axa heads reunite at underwriting agency ahead of launch
Derek Findlayson and Dene Smith join Jonathan Davey and Tony Griffith as Keychoice management team.
Xchanging brings in new experienced non-executive director
Ewen Gilmour to represent the Lloyd's market association on the board of Xchanging Ins-sure Services.
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Argenta to manage new syndicate
TSM Agencies' Syndicate 1110 trading from 1 January
Fusion boosts Scottish presence with new hires
Trevor Hillman joins from RSA as regional manager
Antares receives approval to form managing agency
AMAL to manage Lloyd’s syndicate 1274
APC boosts underwriting and claims units
Lauren Wickes and Mellissa Gill join underwriting agency
MGA market predicted to grow in 2010
At least 12 new MGAs to launch in London this year, Total Objects predicts.
EMB founder plots return with underwriting agency
One of the founding partners of specialist general insurance consultancy firm EMB, Mike Brockman, is understood to be in talks about returning to the market with a personal-lines-focused underwriting agency.
CFC appoints Janine Eagles as media underwriter
Ms Eagles joins from Axis Capital to establish new media division.
Smith departs Provident to become Ink MD
Provident sales and marketing director poised to join Ink
An agent for change
One of the early champions of the managing general agent approach at Oxygen, Sian Fisher is taking the model to new territory. She talks to Mairi MacDonald about overcoming the suspicion of insurers and bringing in SME business.
Access all areas
Last year's amendment of the Lloyd's Act 1982 was meant to pave the way for those brokers in the non-accredited regional community to do business in the London market. But, reports Edward Murray, the take-up of entry has been slow.
The Wright stuff
Leigh Jackson talks to new Fusion managing director Nick Wright about his plans to build on the foundations left by the company's founders, upping its broker numbers and the benefits of fresh capacity.
All hands on decks: making music at Oxygen
Nigel Barton, chief executive of Oxygen Holdings, talks to Jonathan Swift about his love of dance music, the perils of starting up a broker from scratch, lack of insurer support, blind alleys taken and the successes he has achieved in the market.
Independence day
After being acquired by Axa in early 2008, SBJ Global Risks soon realised it wasn't core to the insurer's business.Mairi MacDonald talks to its senior executives about the management buyout that followed and revitalising the company.