Regulation
MP warns of chaos if IBRC is abolished.
If the government abolishes the Insurance Brokers Registration Council it could lead to mass deregis...
Critical illness sales are up.
Sales of critical illness sales reached an all-time high last year with 626 584 new policies sold - ...
Low response to Y2K survey.
Brokers could face a bombardment of time-consuming year 2000 compliance questionnaires from individu...
David Gamble.
Clear thinking is required over the remuneration of brokers and intermediaries. A new code and an independent regulator with real powers must be the way forward.
Chairman of Lloyd's Regulatory Board gives his support.
John Young, chairman of Lloyd's Regulatory Board, has given his broad support to a single body regul...
Appointment at Resolve International.
Resolve International, the global consultancy group, has appointed David Hambly to the board of dire...
Conference and Exhibition at the NEC.
Brokers and intermediaries attending this year's Insurance and Financial Services Technology Confere...
The industry has its say.
The Treasury has received a substantial response to its call for submissions on the future of the IBRC. Tim Collison considers how the trade bodies' arguments stack up on this crucial issue.
Appointment at BUPA.
Peter Jacobs, chief executive of BUPA, has announced that he will be retiring this summer. He will b...
Iron Trades celebrate centenary.
Over 250 guests attended a dinner at the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace (above), last month to c...
Holy smoke.
The Arson Prevention Bureau has launched a guide to tackle the problem of arson attacks on places of...
Why we saved tour operator.
My company acts as guarantor of various travel companies who are required to provide guarantees to t...
ABI: no definitive Y2K exclusion guidelines.
Mark Boleat, director general of the Association of British Insurers, has said that the ABI is not i...
Intermediaries fall foul of code.
Seventeen independent intermediaries are facing across-the-board agency cancellations for failing to...
Appointment at Medical Insurance Agency.
Bridget Poulter has been appointed marketing co-ordinator at dental specialist Clinident, part of th...
All in the hands of the Treasury.
By the time this issue of Professional Broking is published, all submissions on broker regulation wi...
BIIBA submits its self-regulation plan to Treasury.
The British Insurance and Investment Brokers Association has sent its regulatory submission to the T...