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Government legislation on monitoring asbestos materials
Businesses will soon face tough new Government legislation on monitoring asbestos material in their ...
FSA reveals funding plans
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published its proposals for the funding of the Financial ...
Brokers are set to benefit from new Axa buying club
Axa is understood to be investing in a new support package for its personal lines intermediaries whi...
Insurers in scheme plea
Insurers have called on brokers to step into the secondary insurance sector or risk huge swathes of ...
City staff are in danger of prison and heavy fines
Thousands of City staff are in danger of prison and heavy fines by unknowingly breaching financial s...
New regulatory regime and new problems, or opportunities
The clock has been ticking fast in the run up to the new regulatory regime and new problems, or oppo...
Insurance Directory 2004 from Incisive Media published
The Insurance Directory 2004 from Incisive Media has just been published. This essential guide to th...
Compliance services - Getting coached to compliance
Broker Age Supplement
Lorega appoints Navigant Consulting for FSA compliance
Lorega claims and underwriting services (formerly known as The Loss Recovery Group) has appointed Navigant Consulting as the company’s external compliance and reporting consultants.
Assessment of FSA set for launch
The Financial Services Practitioner Panel is about to launch the first stage of its 2004 survey of regulated firms to obtain an authoritative industry assessment of the performance of the Financial Services Authority (FSA). This survey, which is carried…
Networks are no advantage
Letter
Slow progress for compliance and mergers in run-up to 2005
Professional services firm Grant Thornton has warned that some brokers are heading for disciplinary ...
FSA adopts XBRL reporting
The Financial Services Authority has joined XBRL UK and will use the XBRL reporting language from 20...
Acturis looks to networks to boost growth
Acturis is poised to break its 1000-user target before the end of the year, having signed several in...
High time for finance
Premium finance
Biba concern over secondary registrations
The British Insurance Brokers' Association is concerned about the lack of registrations to the Finan...
Auditors' liability - the great debate begins
The Department of Trade and Industry's new paper on audit practice in the wake of Enron offers a chance to redefine the nature of accountants' professional liability
Solicitor slams complaints charges imposed by FOS
Law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has criticised the level of costs charged to brokers by the Fin...
BIBA and ABI await approval for insurer/broker terms of business
The British Insurance Brokers' Association and the Association of British Insurers are ratifying new...
Personal lines brokers top performer in 2003 survey
Personal lines brokers with revenues of between £3m and £10m were the top performers in the broking ...
S&P revises outlook on Axa
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has revised its outlook on Axa to 'negative' from 'stable'. S...