All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2018 // October was a deadly and costly month due to natural catastrophes, with the the U.S. and Europe being hit particularly hard, according to Aon’s Impact Forecasting.Total U.S. economic losses from October’s...
Nov 5 2018 // The U.S. reimposed sanctions on Iran’s critical oil industry Monday, raising pressure on the Islamic Republic to scale back its ballistic missile program and involvement in conflicts across the Middle East.The...
Nov 5 2018 // The United Kingdom is confident that it is on the verge of reaching an agreement with the European Union to give London’s vast financial center access to EU markets after Brexit, Britain’s financial services...
Nov 5 2018 // Arron Banks, the insurance businessman whose millions of pounds of donations to a pro-Brexit campaign are being investigated by police, denied Russia was involved and said the funds came from his U.K. business.“There...
Nov 2 2018 // Donations made by pro-Brexit groups including Arron Banks’ Leave.EU will be investigated by police after the Electoral Commission said they may have “knowingly concealed” the true source of 8 million...
Nov 2 2018 // A senior Democratic U.S. senator on Thursday unveiled draft legislation that would allow hefty fines and as much as 20-year prison terms for executives who violate privacy and cybersecurity standards.Senator Ron Wyden...
Nov 1 2018 // Arch Insurance Europe has purchased the UK Commercial Lines business owned by The Ardonagh Group and part of its Geo Underwriting operating segment.The acquisition will give Arch a meaningful presence and an extended...
Nov 1 2018 // QBE announced changes to its structure, designed to further simplify its operations and build a more streamlined, agile and customer-oriented business.Following the underwriting remediation in Asia, which is now largely...
Nov 1 2018 // The United Kingdom and the European Union have made progress on a deal to give London’s dominant financial center basic access to EU markets after Brexit, two British officials said, but no agreement has yet been...
Oct 31 2018 // A no-deal Brexit would be likely to tip Britain into a recession as long as the downturn that followed the global financial crisis, and investors should no longer ignore this danger, credit ratings agency Standard &...
Oct 30 2018 // More than a day after a brand-new Boeing Co. 737 Max jet flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea, the search for the plane failed to yield much as investigators continued the grim task of uncovering...
Oct 29 2018 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has launched a windstorm forecasting platform in Australia and updated its existing service in Europe.The website,...
Oct 27 2018 // Ratings agency Fitch said on Friday it no longer assumed that Britain would leave the European Union in a smooth transition and said a “no deal” Brexit could lead to a further downgrade of its sovereign credit...
Oct 26 2018 // American International Group, Inc. announced its European subsidiary, AIG Europe Ltd. (AEL) has received approval from the High Court of England & Wales to transfer its business into two new entities: American...
Oct 26 2018 // A no-deal Brexit would drag the U.K. economy to a near standstill next year, according to a new report.If Britain leaves the European Union without an agreement, reverting to World Trade Organization’s...
Oct 26 2018 // U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Cabinet is not close enough to agreeing on a way forward for top level Brexit negotiations to resume, even as time is running short to reach a deal, according to people familiar with...
Oct 25 2018 // The European Union might grant temporary permission for clearing houses in Britain to continue serving EU customers if there is a no-deal Brexit next March, an EU document seen by Reuters showed.LCH, a unit of the London...
Oct 24 2018 // Fidelis Insurance Holdings Ltd. announced it has established a regulated re/insurer in Ireland, called Fidelis Insurance Ireland DAC (FIID), to take advantage of opportunities in the European Economic Area (EEA) after...
Oct 23 2018 // U.S. hog farmers are ramping up safety procedures and leaving animal-feed ingredients imported from China in storage in an attempt to keep out a highly contagious swine disease that is sweeping through Asia and Europe.U.S....
Oct 21 2018 // Four-fifths of U.K. companies have cut or withheld investment because of the uncertainty caused by Brexit, Britain’s biggest business lobby said.Some 58 percent of businesses have made plans to cut jobs, adjust...