All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 2 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) and Lockton Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. BHSI Promotes 2 Regional Leaders for Europe, Middle...
Apr 26 2023 // European Union lawmakers on Tuesday backed rules requiring thousands of large companies to identify and mitigate human rights abuses like child labor or slavery, and environmental damage by suppliers.The European...
Apr 25 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Howden Broking and Chubb.A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden Names Holz as CEO for Germany, Creating Howden DeutschlandHowden, the...
Apr 25 2023 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance broker, announced the launch of Specialist Risk Europe, the platform for SRG’s European operations, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. SRG’s latest...
Apr 24 2023 // Issuing “catastrophe bonds” and setting up public-private partnerships could help plug the “insurance gap” to better cover damage from climate change, a discussion paper from the European Central...
Apr 21 2023 // The record heat and drought hurting European farmers, power utilities and insurers foreshadows even faster change to the continent’s climate, with scientists warning that feedback loops from a drying Earth likely...
Apr 19 2023 // The European Commission on Tuesday announced a 1.1-billion-euro ($1.2 billion) plan to counter growing cybersecurity threats, underscoring mounting concerns about a series of high-profile hacking incidents.The growing use...
Apr 18 2023 // Greenpeace and other campaign groups are set to take the European Commission to court on Tuesday, seeking to overturn European Union rules that class nuclear energy and natural gas as climate-friendly investments.The...
Apr 6 2023 // Financial services companies would be required to take action if their clients were failing to protect human rights and the environment, a preliminary deal due to be voted on later this month by a panel of European Union...
Apr 4 2023 // Car services groups on Friday warned a stalled EU proposal to ensure fair access to valuable vehicle data could pave the way for unfair competition from U.S. and Chinese tech companies.The vehicle data tussle between...
Mar 30 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Everest Insurance and OONA Insurance (formerly Mapfre Insurance).A summary of these new hires follows here. Everest Insurance Names Chubb’s Kendrick...
Mar 24 2023 // The rapidly unfolding crises of confidence at Credit Suisse Group AG and Silicon Valley Bank are prompting some regulators gathered at the European Central Bank to rethink their treatment of liquidity risk.The watchdogs...
Mar 22 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at media, tech and cyber MGA, Nirvana, and the broker Verlingue.A summary of these new hires follows here. New Specialty MGA Nirvana Taps Sompo’s...
Mar 22 2023 // The European Commission proposed rules on Wednesday that would require companies in Europe to back up climate-friendly claims about their products with evidence, to stamp out misleading green labels for products from...
Mar 21 2023 // Top officials from Britain’s financial sector said on Tuesday they would set out a blueprint later this year to “kickstart” London’s role as a post-Brexit global financial center by 2030.The City of...
Mar 14 2023 // The European Union is starting to prepare the region’s next stress test to measure the financial sector’s readiness for climate change, with the exercise set to involve the insurance industry for the first...
Mar 13 2023 // Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, updated its Impact Forecasting Europe Windstorm and Severe Convective Storm (SCS) catastrophe models to incorporate emissions scenarios that inform current and future...
Mar 10 2023 // The European Central Bank plans to test the cyber resilience of the euro zone’s top banks after a sharp rise in cyberattacks, including after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ECB supervisory chief Andrea Enria...
Mar 9 2023 // Britain’s revamped financial market rules will largely be aligned with U.S. and European Union regulations to minimize disruption to global companies, its financial services minister Andrew Griffith said on...
Mar 3 2023 // Canada will bar civil servants from using TikTok Inc. on government-issued mobile devices due to security concerns around data collection.The social media app, which is owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd., will be...