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Tasker buys licensed trade sector broker
Tasker Insurance Group snaps up Dartford-based Pro Hospitality.
Ryan looks ahead
Our Christmas Q&A continues with Tim Ryan of Ryan Group.
Beaumonts to rebrand as Jelf Beaumonts
Alway anticipates smooth integration and describes aquisition pipeline as "healthy".
Red Apple to expand and create jobs in Wales
The broker, focused on products including cyber attack protection, receives £160,000 from the Welsh government.
Jelf buys Beaumonts for initial £10.1m
Deal cost will rise by £8.28m if Ebitda targets hit.
Lyons: client policies are “absolutely not” at risk
Part two of an exclusive Q&A with the consolidator’s interim executive chairman.
Towergate boss tackles: the sale progress so far, bidders, creditors and rivals’ reactions
An exclusive Q&A with Alastair Lyons, interim executive chairman at the consolidator.
Be Wiser chief executive predicts more consolidation in 2015
CEO and chairman Mark Bower-Dyke talks to Insurance Age about how he sees the market developing next year.
Moody’s downgrades Towergate again
Second downgrade in a month takes Towergate deeper into ‘junk bond’ territory.
Equistone sells A-Plan stake to HgCapital
Broker chief says it is "business as usual" for the firm.
FCA could stop firms using premium rate numbers
Regulator is considering changes to the rules on complaint handling and post-sale calls.
Griffiths & Armour targets across the board expansion
Broker looking to grow in corporate risks after recruiting six former Towergate staff to its professional risks division.
FCA chiefs to face MPs
Executives called to Parliament following Davis Report.
Mark Minton joins the Wilson Organisation
Minton takes on the new role of managing director of the group's general insurance division.
FCA proposes GAP insurance sales changes
New rules set to come into force in September 2015.
Who regulates the regulator?
We’ve been awaiting the findings out the Davis Report ever since that fateful Telegraph article which saw millions of pounds wiped of the value of shares for the major insurers.
Griffiths & Armour takes six from Towergate
Broker expands professional risk division with former Towergate Professional Indemnity staff.
FCA investigation cost £3.8m
Total costs include £2.04m for the Clifford Chance Review and £1m for advice to the FCA and witness representation.
Fusion opens for business in Manchester
Towergate-owned firm’s network expands to seven offices.
Be Wiser to work with Open GI
Broker appoints Open GI as technology partner for its commercial lines offering.
Ageas Retail secures £150m loan facility
Broker said money is needed to help it achieve growth strategy.
Des O'Connor joins Brightside Group
O'Connor becomes the group commercial director.
FCA executives to lose bonuses, reports say
Senior management set to loses bonuses as Davis Report criticism expected.
Editor's letter - December 2014
“‘Insurance is a people industry’… But it is precisely the people who are at risk of being forgotten in the quick-fire way this story is unfolding”