E-Trading
Taking tips from the TUC
The insurance industry would do well to take note from the Trades Union Congress when trying to get its voice heard in Parliament
How safe is it to download software from the internet?
Q. I recently received some software from an IT firm via email. Is it OK to install programs received via email or from the internet?
Budget: Cape Town move
Budget is opening a 200-seat contact centre in Cape Town to accommodate ambitious growth targets for...
RA Cowen office move
Mansfield-based broker RA Cowen & Partners has opened a new office in Peterborough and is looking fo...
Dual Corporate Risks widens its private reach
Dual Corporate Risks is launching an online facility in February, offering a broad corporate risks p...
Foundation Degrees report
The financial services industry looks set to face a tough start to 2004, with more than half of all ...
Bulk delivery
Wholesale
FirstAssist licenses new software platform
FirstAssist has licensed a new software platform to generate its critical insurance business documen...
Cunningham Lindsey launches anti-fraud campaign
A new anti-fraud campaign has been launched by Cunningham Lindsey with the aim of deterring false cl...
Alan Boswell Group expands Norwich operations
Broker The Alan Boswell Group is expanding its Norwich operations by over 3,000 sq ft to accommodate...
Marlborough Stirling annual technology index
Independent financial advisers (IFAs) are set to transact £2.8bn per year electronically by 2008, ac...
Cifas members to save money
Members of the fraud prevention service Cifas are set to save £2.5m per year through lower administr...
Driven business?
Private Motor
RK Harrison to offer e-quotes
RK Harrison is set to roll out a new online quote facility to help launch its standalone policy for ...
Call-centre lie detectors 'to become widespread'
'Lie detectors', or voice stress analysis technology, will become commonplace over the coming year a...
HSBC Insurance Brokers install new software
HSBC Insurance Brokers has installed new software designed to speed up the exchange of documents bot...
Allianz products made available on Stargate
Allianz Cornhill has opened up three of its commercial-lines products to brokers via the Sirius Star...
FSA publishes new rules
Standardised data must be included in advertisements referring to past performance under new rules p...
No mean Fleet
Fleet
Insurance Age competition winner
The winner of last month's Insurance Age competition was Martin Cain of Routen Chaplin insurance bro...
Trafalgar Risk Management launches new insurance products
City of London insurance consultancy Trafalgar Risk Management has launched what it claims is the UK...
imarket targeting 700 members by year end
Polaris says it is looking to expand its imarket insurer panel and have 700 brokers registered to th...
Dual to offer online pricing for intermediaries' D&O business
Insurer Dual Corporate Risks has launched an internet quotation engine exclusively for brokers, to p...
Insurance disks not the answer, says the AA
Calls for the compulsory display of insurance discs in car windscreens are misguided and will do nothing to tackle the growing problem of uninsured drivers, says the AA, as a private members’ Bill to introduce insurance discs is placed through Parliament.