All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 21 2021 // Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it will resume rolling out its COVID-19 vaccine in Europe after the region’s medical regulator said the benefits of the shot outweigh the risk of very rare, potentially lethal...
Apr 16 2021 // LONDON – Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff and a combined trillion pounds ($1.4 trillion) in assets to hubs in the European Union due to Brexit, with more pain to come, a study from New...
Apr 15 2021 // The European Union is poised to ban artificial intelligence (AI) systems used for mass surveillance or for ranking social behavior, while companies developing AI could face fines as high as 4% of global revenue if they...
Apr 14 2021 // BRUSSELS – European Union antitrust regulators have extended until July 27 the deadline for their decision on Aon’s $30 billion bid for rival Willis Towers Watson, a European Commission filing showed on...
Apr 14 2021 // Seven European countries, including Germany, France and Britain, will commit on Wednesday to stop public export guarantees for fossil fuel projects, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday.Coal, oil and gas...
Apr 14 2021 // BRUSSELS – Insurance broker Aon’s offer to sell assets in five EU countries and takeover target Willis Towers Watson’s reinsurance arm may not be enough to address EU competition concerns, people familiar...
Apr 12 2021 // Confidence among big businesses in Britain about their profits in the year ahead has hit a record high, helped by the country’s coronavirus vaccinations and hopes for less Brexit disruption, a survey of chief finance...
Apr 12 2021 // BRUSSELS – Insurance broker Aon has offered to sell assets in several EU countries and the reinsurance unit of takeover target Willis Towers Watson to gain EU antitrust approval for its $30 billion acquisition bid, a...
Apr 9 2021 // This wrap-up of International People Moves details recent appointments at Hiscox, Canopius, IGI and HDI Global.A summary of these new hires follows here. HiscoxSpecialist global insurer Hiscox has appointed Robert Dietrich...
Apr 7 2021 // A range of European Union institutions including the European Commission were hit by a significant cyber attack last week.A spokesperson for the commission said that a number of EU bodies “experienced an IT security...
Mar 30 2021 // LONDON – Britain should not be “short-sighted” and copy European Union rules just to keep financial activity in London, Bank of England executive director for financial stability Alex Brazier said on...
Mar 29 2021 // STOCKHOLM — “I get an email almost every morning from some SPAC seller telling me to do a SPAC with them,” said Johnny Boufarhat, CEO of Hopin, a virtual events platform. “It’s interesting,...
Mar 29 2021 // LONDON — Britain and the European Union agreed a new post-Brexit financial services pact on Friday that will allow them to cooperate on regulation but does little to improve the City of London’s access to the...
Mar 26 2021 // LONDON – There is a growing realization that Britain should not wait for unlikely European Union access for financial services but get on with building a more competitive City of London, a senior lawmaker said on...
Mar 24 2021 // The City of London may be better off staying out of the EU’s financial services market as it would have to sacrifice autonomy over setting rules to win full access, a report by Britain’s upper house of...
Mar 23 2021 // Policy makers who are raising the alarm over water scarcity could still be underestimating the scale of droughts in store for central European economies, according to new research.More frequent dry spells over the last...
Mar 18 2021 // Britain expects to seal a financial services cooperation pact with the European Union shortly, a senior finance ministry official told a conference on challenges from market fragmentation.The City of London’s ties...
Mar 18 2021 // BRUSSELS – The European Union threatened on Wednesday to ban exports of COVID-19 vaccines to Britain to safeguard scarce doses for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic that would jeopardize plans to...
Mar 17 2021 // Funds investing in “brown” or polluting companies would be hit far harder than environmentally friendly “green” funds in a climate-related market shock, the European Union’s securities...
Mar 10 2021 // LONDON/BRUSSELS – For money managers and advisers keen to market their sustainable investing credentials to European clients, going green is about to get a lot tougher.Under a suite of new EU finance rules due to be...