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This week's episode at Towergate
It's the story that just keeps giving.
No levy for brokers - a victory for the workers
There has finally been an exciting development regarding FSCS levies. Brokers won't be charged this year!
Bah humbug: It’s a Bankstone News Christmas
Christmas comes but once a year. Just as well, judging by this year’s sparse, depressing, and generally lacklustre crop of festive-themed PR fluff.
Who regulates the regulator?
We’ve been awaiting the findings out the Davis Report ever since that fateful Telegraph article which saw millions of pounds wiped of the value of shares for the major insurers.
Christmas in insurance land ....
With Christmas just around the corner, up pops Towergate with a festive whodunnit - or perhaps more accurately: who's going to buy it?
The ever-changing QBE
Over recent weeks we have covered several changes in structure and management at QBE.
Are journalists supposed to be this healthy?
As I near the end of my first week working as a reporter in the insurance industry, I've learned some interesting and important things.
Confessions of a beginner
I joined team Insurance Age on Monday as a reporter.
Will brokers go to bed with Nigel Farage?
Rabble-rousing Bankstone News is, as the industry knows to its cost, always happiest when it is upsetting everyone.
Goodbye and good luck
It’s September, the days are drawing in, leaves are turning brown, and it’s hard to shake off the feeling that it’s time for a change.
Compulsory culture
Should a code of conduct be voluntary?
Insurance - perceptions of a novice
What a difference two weeks makes.
The other results
August is renowned for a number of things (don’t worry, this isn’t another blog about the silly season).
L&G goes out on a limb
The stand out story by miles this week was Legal & General's shock withdrawal from the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
The results before silly season
What does the flurry of half-year results tell brokers about their insurer partners?
All go at Gallagher
Readers of Insurance Age will be well aware that over recent weeks we have covered several departures from Arthur J Gallagher.
Sector shows its best side
I joined Insurance Age on Monday as the commissioning editor with a responsibility for looking after the features, videos and roundtables on the website and in the monthly magazine.
All fight on the night
Markerstudy's Lizzie Smith-Foreman gives a blow-by-blow account of the provider's inaugural Fight Night, held in conjunction with Insurance Age.
Public want full commission disclosure
Axa commercial lines and personal intermediary CEO says she is expecting 'brickbats' for her views
Sole provider
The Northern Ireland market dominated headlines yesterday.
No smoking gun
The Financial Conduct Authority has set tongues wagging again in the past week with the publication of its thematic review into conflicts of interest among intermediaries when dealing with SME business.
Motoring on
The biggest news this week for brokers was the news that RSA is reducing its personal lines motor book by 35%.
#Bibafevered
So how was Manchester for you?
In safe hands
Don’t worry, this isn’t a blog about David Seaman. Not even a review of his biography.