China
Former Axa and Groupama leader Laurent Matras joins Tesco Bank as CUO
Laurent Matras has returned to the UK market as chief underwriting officer at Tesco Bank.
L&G's general insurance up for sale - report
Sky News reveals disposal plans and £300m price tag.
China Re buys Chaucer Group for $950m
Previous owner Hanover appointed Goldman Sachs earlier this year to explore options.
First Chinese broker joins Lloyd’s
Shanghai Asian Insurance Brokers has formally registered with Lloyd’s.
UK Broker Conference 2012: Education key to economic recovery
Education should play a key part in harnessing an economic recovery, delegates were told at the 2012 Broker Conference keynotes speech.
Ace optimistic following improvement in COR
Ace has reported operating income of $1.444bn [£916.7m] for the first half of 2012, up from $932m in 2011.
Quinn purchaser sees net income slump
Liberty Mutual Holding has reported a 78.2% fall in net income to $365m (£232m) in 2011 from $1.68bn the previous year.
Forget Europe, let's just concentrate on China
I attended the Coface Country Risk Conference in Paris earlier this week, where I heard from a number of economists from all over the world.
Where now for Groupama et al?
So we’ve got three insurers up for sale, namely RBSI, Brit and now Groupama. Consolidation in the insurer space has been predicted for some time now but I don’t think people expected it to happen like this – more deals done behind closed doors than…
Agenda: Insurance and the state
The insurance industry and the state are inextricably entwined with a large number of common interests but competing in a number of areas in looking after the wellbeing of citizens and businesses. On a macro basis, the need for insurance in a communist…
Think-tank predicts economic growth but rising unemployment in the UK
A report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has predicted positive economic growth for the UK economy but also described a more gloomy outlook for unemployment.