All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2020 // AXA said that it has completed the sale of its life and savings, property and casualty, and pension businesses in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia to Austria’s UNIQA Insurance Group for a total cash consideration...
Oct 15 2020 // European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday will pressure Britain for concessions in their troubled Brexit talks, saying a trillion euros worth of trade could be sunk if London does not budge on fisheries, fair...
Oct 13 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that Louise Kidd has joined its growing European team as head of Third Party Lines in Ireland.Kidd comes to BHSI with nearly two decades of industry experience with a...
Oct 12 2020 // UK privacy protections were criticized by an activist who told the European Union that the British shouldn’t be trusted to protect user data after Brexit.The personal data of EU citizens “do not at present have...
Oct 9 2020 // Britain’s full exit from the European Union could be bumpy for investors as banks staff new hubs in the bloc, but there are few threats to wider financial stability, the Bank of England said on Thursday.Britain left...
Oct 8 2020 // Premium income for the London company market grew by 10% last year with £21.436 billion of large commercial and wholesale risks underwritten by firms in the City.A new report from the International Underwriting...
Oct 7 2020 // Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, the European Union’s Copernicus...
Oct 7 2020 // Britain and the EU are closer to agreement on reciprocal social security rights for their citizens after Brexit, two diplomatic sources said, with one describing talks last week on an elusive trade deal as “one of...
Oct 6 2020 // The European Union’s top court ruled on Tuesday that unrestrained mass surveillance of phone and internet data is unlawful, in a move which could curb the powers of spying agencies in France and other EU...
Oct 6 2020 // Allianz CEO Oliver Baete said on Tuesday that European governments needed to be careful about spending record amounts on the COVID-19 crisis as many ordinary people would be angry when they were handed such a vast bill.The...
Oct 5 2020 // Bermuda-based reinsurance run-off specialist Premia Holdings Ltd. has agreed to acquire Navigators Holdings (Europe) NV and its associated companies from The Hartford. Navigators’ associated companies are...
Oct 5 2020 // SCOR Global P&C is making a number of changes to its organizational structure to be more responsive on a regional basis, according to SCOR Global P&C CEO Jean-Paul Conoscente, who sent a message to clients on...
Oct 1 2020 // More than 7,500 finance jobs and a trillion pounds in assets have already left Britain for the European Union as banks prepare for full-blown Brexit in January, consultants EY said on Thursday.Banks, insurers and asset...
Sep 30 2020 // Hg, the European private equity investor focused on software and service businesses, announced it will make a significant long-term equity investment in Hyperion Insurance Group Ltd., the insurance intermediary.The...
Sep 29 2020 // Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model.“For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have a strong offering, you...
Sep 28 2020 // Technology firms’ compliance with European restrictions on transatlantic data transfers is shockingly poor, Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems said on Monday, publishing a survey of companies including Facebook...
Sep 28 2020 // European governments will pay claims above an agreed limit against AstraZeneca over side-effects from its potential COVID-19 vaccine, under different terms to a deal struck with Sanofi, an EU official told Reuters.The...
Sep 25 2020 // New York again heads the rankings of the world’s leading global financial centres.The Global Financial Centres Index 28, launched by London think tank Z/Yen Group in partnership with the China Development Institute...
Sep 24 2020 // Having complained for years about hedge funds’ high fees and lackluster performance, insurance firms may be preparing to cut allocations to the sector after its poor performance during recent market upheaval left...
Sep 23 2020 // Toyota is the newest partner in the Swiss Re platform that provides a risk score on vehicles so insurers can develop premiums that reflect new safety features.Through this partnership with Toyota Insurance Services...