E-Trading
Beckett Group to buy mystery consultancy by end of this year.
Intermediary Beckett Group is set to tie up its sixth acquisition in four years with the takeover of...
Henderson merges two acquisitions into a new brand.
Henderson Insurance Brokers has kicked off an expansion drive with the acquisition of John Taylor In...
Cox reports £11m loss.
LLoyd's insurer Cox has posted a loss of £11m for the first six months of the year, compared with a ...
Piloting brokers give 24-7 the thumbs up.
Technology provider 24-7 has rolled out its broker software to pilot brokers, to a positive receptio...
E-Commerce Watch
The company hopes to improve communication with its nationwide network of intermediaries and streamli...
Lancaster: rethink needed.
Underwriting standards came under fire at the Chartered Insurers Institute conference, with Tony Lan...
Onward spread.
The purely organic growth of Ward Evans continues to develop with pace. Martin Ward tells Catherine Tennant about the next phase in its evolution.
Chubb offers cyberliability product
Insurance giant Chubb has launched a new product aimed at protecting financial institutions' cybersec...
Cox stays on with Yahoo!
Cox Insurance Retail Division has renewed its contract to provide online insurance services for Yaho...
SafeData to give smaller companies cyber security.
Digital risk specialist, Safeonline, has launched a product aimed at small to medium-sized businesse...
Improved medical services.
Hospital Saturday fund has enhanced the benefits available under its cash plan schemes. Improvements...
Insurers focus on e-commerce drive.
Electronic commerce has failed to reduce costs as much as insurers hoped because intermediaries and ...
Digital watch.
Despite a growing awareness of the risks that accompany technology and e-commerce, many small to medium-sized businesses continue to leave cyber-security to chance. Brokers have a clear role to play, says Stuart McMillan.
Taxing questions for those wishing to take on freelancers.
Q: What are the tax implications of employing freelance workers? A: With employment comes the fina...
Increased vigilance call from ABI chief
John Parker, head of general insurance at the Association of British Insurers has called for the indu...
Alternative risk finance increases in popularity.
An increasing number of medium-sized companies are turning to alternative risk finance, according to...
HIGN launches expatriate range.
International private medical insurance provider HealthCare International Global Network has launche...
Appointment at Primary.
Pete Blakeley and Judy Nugent have joined Primary as schemes underwriters. Joining from Independent,...
E-Commerce Watch.
- CMG Admiral, part of global information and communications services group CMG, has found that thre...
Mining for gold.
Customer relationship management may be the catchphrase of the moment, but which systems offer brokers the best means of ensuring their databases work to their maximum potential, asks David Fanning.
St Paul extends policies to include cyberliability.
St Paul International Insurance Company has developed two new e-risk covers and is in the process of...
Ex-Indie director named deputy general manager of St Paul.
Andy Hawkes, the former director of Independent Insurance responsible for ground-breaking broker ini...
A frame of mind.
Photography is a complex area to insure, involving more than simply covering equipment, but it is a profitable one for brokers willing to take on a mediating and tailoring role, says Diane Smyth.
How do Microsoft licence changes affect us?
Q: We have Microsoft's Office 97 suite on our existing PCs but I have read this is no longer availab...