All the headlines from our AXA XL Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 15 2001 // France’s AXA abruptly announced that it was terminating its insurance coverage of the 2002 Soccer World Cup, scheduled to be held in Japan and Korea next May and June, following the terrorist attacks of September 11...
Oct 11 2001 // France’s AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance and financial groups, announced that it would implement cost cutting measures worldwide in an effort to reduce operating and related expenses by an overall...
Sep 24 2001 // Both France’s AXA Group and Germany’s Allianz AG, the world’s two largest insurance groups, raised their original estimates of potential losses from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 in the U.S. (See IJ...
Sep 17 2001 // Once upon a time in a country far, far away, a few visionaries (and yes, a few con artists) laid the foundations of the multi-billion dollar motion picture industry. It required taking considerable risks, and still does....
Sep 14 2001 // France’s AXA Group announced that its 1st half earnings had reached €1.222 billion ($1.11 billion) a 12.4 percent increase over comparable figures for the year 2000. The company noted that its buyout of the...
Sep 10 2001 // Unlike many lines of insurance, the fine arts and collections market has so far managed to avoid the difficulties of a hardening environment. But is it robust enough to carry the industry through tough times? Maybe not,...
Sep 3 2001 // Unlike many lines of insurance, the fine arts and collections market has so far managed to avoid the difficulties of a hardening environment. But is it robust enough to carry the industry through tough times? Maybe not,...
Aug 17 2001 // AXA’s U.K. operations will finally have a new CEO when Dennis Holt, currently the head of retail banking for Lloyds TSB, takes over as Group Chief Executive on September 1st. Holt’s selection ends a search for...
Jul 9 2001 // Manufacturers Bank announced that it had entered into a referral alliance with AXA Advisors LLC to provide bank customers with a full range of insurance and investment products through Shuster Financial Group, LLC. Michael...
Jul 9 2001 // On June 12, French police detained and questioned AXA’s Management Board Chairman Henri de Castries and his predecessor, the company’s founder Claude Bébéar, who now presides over its Supervisory Board, about...
Jul 5 2001 // AXA Insurance, the French giant’s U.K. unit, has acquired Independent Insurance’s small business website from the company’s liquidators. The site, www.business-risk.com, employs 17 people, who will be...
Jun 25 2001 // On June 12, French police detained and questioned AXA’s Management Board Chairman Henri de Castries and his predecessor, the company’s founder Claude Bébéar, who now presides over its Supervisory Board, about...
Jun 15 2001 // Claude Bébéar, AXA’s founder and head of its advisory board, and its current CEO, Henri de Castries, were freed yesterday after each posted a 2 million franc ($258,000) bond. The two business leaders...
Jun 13 2001 // French police detained and questioned AXA’s Management Board Chairman Henri de Castries, and his predecessor the company’s founder Claude Bébéar, who now presides over its Supervisory Board, about...
May 31 2001 // The ongoing negotiations between AXA, France’s largest insurer, and Germany’s Deutsche Bank have apparently ended without reaching any agreement for an alliance. I
May 17 2001 // France’s AXA Group and its U.S. Subsidiary, AXA Financial, Inc. announced that Christopher M. “Kip” Condron has been named to succeed Edward D Miller as the new President and CEO of U.S. operations. He...
May 10 2001 // AXA’s shareholders approved previously announced plans to split the company’s common stock on a four-to-one basis, and to increase annual dividend payments by 12 percent at a general meeting yesterday.
Apr 9 2001 // After a week of intensive negotiations, Allianz AG and Dresdner Bank, Germany’s third largest, announced on April 1 that they have agreed to join forces to create Germany’s biggest financial institution. With...
Apr 5 2001 // Two leading reinsurance groups, AXA Corporate Solutions Reinsurance Company (successor to AXA Re), and Bermuda-based Renaissance Reinsurance Company have taken equity stakes in International Catastrophe Insurance Managers,...
Mar 30 2001 // “Allianz and Dresdner Bank confirm strategic talks concerning the creation of a leading integrated financial services provider for insurance, investment and banking services. The talks are in an advanced stage, but...