All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2014 // Vienna Insurance Group AG (VIG), Eastern Europe’s biggest insurer, said it won’t expand into Russia even as the number of acquisition targets in other parts of the region shrink.VIG, which is based in the...
May 29 2014 // ING Groep NV will try to execute Europe’s biggest initial public offering this year even as investor demand declines and competing share sales increase.The largest Dutch financial-services company is seeking to value...
May 27 2014 // Jacob Rosengarten, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer for XL Group, in a keynote speech at the European Insurance Forum in Dublin, examined how greater connectivity and technology are intensifying global risks and contributing...
May 22 2014 // Despite risking offense to non-believers, Hank Watkins didn’t hesitate when he was asked if climate change was upon us.Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America, talked about an extensive report Lloyd’s of...
May 22 2014 // Independent insurance network Brokerslink announced that it has reorganized its previous Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) trading area by splitting it into two separate regions: Europe and Middle East & Africa...
May 20 2014 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Southeast Europe is experiencing record levels of flooding after three months’ worth of rain fell in just three days. The report cited the “many...
May 19 2014 // Ireland has been through some difficult economic times, but this year’s European Insurance Forum, held at the Four Seasons Hotel on May 15 and 16, highlighted the progress that’s been made, and the bright...
May 19 2014 // Cars could be driving themselves down the world’s streets far sooner than expected, thanks to a change in a global treaty backed by European countries.A little-noticed amendment to the United Nations Convention on...
May 15 2014 // Italian insurer Generali expects to meet key capital and asset sales targets ahead of time after kicking off talks with Brazil’s BTG Pactual for a possible sale of Swiss unit BSI, a central plank of its...
May 13 2014 // Google Inc. may be ordered to remove personal information from its search engine after the European Union’s top court paved the way for citizens to have a “right to be forgotten.”“Links and...
May 12 2014 // CME Group Inc.’s European clearinghouse and SIX Group’s central-securities depository have agreed to offer an integrated collateral-management service to insurance companies operating in Switzerland.Once the...
May 8 2014 // The RSA Insurance Group Plc reported a 15 percent decline in revenue for the first quarter after the U.K.’s biggest non-life insurer by market value sold assets to bolster its balance sheet.Net written premiums, a...
May 2 2014 // Allied World Europe has launched an Onshore Construction insurance line of business and appointed Alf Müller as senior vice president to lead the team. He will be responsible for building the line of business and...
May 1 2014 // RRJ Capital Ltd., run by Charles Ong, and his former employer Temasek Holdings Pte, have agreed to invest €1.28 billion ($1.8 billion) in ING Groep NV’s NN insurance business before the unit’s initial public...
May 1 2014 // U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue recently met with BUSINESSEUROPE President Emma Marcegaglia and Director General Markus Beyrer, as well as leaders of business federations and companies from...
Apr 29 2014 // If the UK exits the European Union, it could wreck London’s position as the only financial center to rival New York and isolate the country’s economy, research ordered by a lobby group for banks and money...
Apr 22 2014 // Jacques de Larosiere says he is an isolated and modest man. Yet the 84-year-old former head of the International Monetary Fund is one of the most influential voices in European and global finance.An eminence grise as...
Apr 17 2014 // PZU SA, central Europe’s largest insurer by market value, agreed to buy RSA Insurance Group Plc’s four units in the biggest foreign acquisition by a Polish financial company.PZU will pay a combined €360...
Apr 15 2014 // A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a” of UK-based Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Company of Europe, Limited (SFME), both...
Apr 9 2014 // European insurers such as Allianz SE and Axa SA are shifting investments into the loan market, taking business from banks that are being forced to increase capital and meet tougher regulations, Moody’s Investors...