All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2013 // The European Union fined Microsoft Corp €561 million [$731.5 million] on Wednesday for failing to offer consumers a choice of web browser, a charge that will act as a warning to other technology firms involved in...
Mar 5 2013 // Spain’s Bankinter has joined forces with U.S. investment fund Apollo Global Management to bid for Italian insurer Generali’s Swiss private bank BSI in a deal worth up to €2 billion ($2.6 billion), three...
Mar 5 2013 // Willis Group Holdings announced that Toby Wemyss has been appointed as Regional CEO of the Group’s Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, effective April first.He will be based in London and...
Mar 1 2013 // Willis Group Holdings has appointed Lesley Harding as CEO of the Willis Global Captive Practice in Europe, effective March 1. She reports to Malcolm Cutts-Watson, Chairman of the Willis Global Captive Practice – Europe,...
Feb 22 2013 // UK-based Tempo Underwriting announced that it has started underwriting Commercial D&O through a binding authority arrangement with W. R. Berkley Insurance (Europe), Limited, the European affiliate of W.R....
Feb 21 2013 // While 2012 was a flat year for financial services mergers and acquisitions (M&A) overall, there was a surge in the fourth quarter and there is reason to think activity will pick up in 2013, according to a new...
Feb 18 2013 // Accusations, denials and threats to sue reverberated around Europe on Friday as meat traders, food processors, retailers and governments all rejected blame for horsemeat found in ever more beef dishes across the...
Feb 15 2013 // The Group of 20 major economies struggled on Friday to find common ground on currencies and borrowing, exposing rifts between advocates of a dash for growth and supporters of more austerity to revive the world economy.A...
Feb 14 2013 // The European Union’s executive formally proposed on Thursday a tax on financial trading in 11 countries to raise up to €35 billion [$46.7 billion] annually, a step investors said would hit savers and pension...
Feb 14 2013 // In a joint statement the U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue and the President of BUSINESSEUROPE Jürgen R. Thumann welcomed the release of the final report of the U.S.-EU High Level Working Group...
Feb 13 2013 // Negotiations for a free-trade agreement between the United States and the European Union are set to begin within months, almost two decades after the idea was first floated between the world’s two largest...
Feb 13 2013 // The Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Munich-based Ifo institute for economic research have released findings, which conclude that the “world economy is showing signs of brightening after...
Feb 11 2013 // While global economic losses were close to average in 2012, insured losses were 36 percent higher than the 10-year average ($72 billion versus $53 billion) because the two most costly events of the year occurred in the...
Feb 5 2013 // Swiss-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that Julian James has been named President of Allied World’s European platform effective March 4, 2013, pending certain regulatory approvals.James...
Feb 5 2013 // Ironshore Europe Ltd. (IEL) announced that Jamie R. Lewis has joined the company as Senior VP –Healthcare. He will be, working closely with Matt Dolan, the president of IronHealth, and will be responsible for developing...
Jan 28 2013 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a” of UK-based AIG Europe Limited (AEL), formerly Chartis...
Jan 25 2013 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B++’ (Good) and the issuer credit rating of “bbb” of Jordan’s First Insurance Company (FIC), both...
Jan 24 2013 // While global economic losses were close to average in 2012, insured losses last year were 36 percent higher than the 10 year average ($72 billion vs. $53 billion) because the two most costly events of the year occurred in...
Jan 24 2013 // Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, has published its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report along with the establishment of a new website, Catastrophe Insight,...
Jan 23 2013 // Prime Minister David Cameron promised on Wednesday to give Britons a referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave if he wins an election in 2015, placing a question mark over Britain’s...