All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 19 2018 // The U.K. and the European Union are inching towards a plan that could help unblock Brexit negotiations and clear the path to a deal, raising hopes of progress after months of stalemate.While the EU summit in Brussels fell...
Oct 18 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Ten years ago, CoreLogic® (at the time, EQECAT) introduced the use of global Atmosphere-Ocean-General-Circulation Models (AOGCM) for insurance-oriented assessments of...
Oct 18 2018 // When insurance experts are asked what they see as the most important emerging risk for the property/casualty insurance industry, their consensus is cyber in some form.While cyber obviously poses tremendous risks, some...
Oct 18 2018 // British Prime Minister Theresa May signaled on Thursday she would consider extending a so-called transition period “for a matter of months” after Britain leaves the European Union, a move her critics say is a...
Oct 17 2018 // Hackers have infected three energy and transport companies in Ukraine and Poland with sophisticated new malware and may be planning destructive cyber attacks, a software security firm said on Wednesday.A report by...
Oct 17 2018 // Britain’s financial sector brushed off Brexit uncertainty in 2017 to attract more inward investment than eight rival centers vying for its business, the City of London Corp. said on Wednesday.The body that governs...
Oct 16 2018 // The European Union summit in Brussels this week was meant to be historic: a Brexit divorce deal would be reached and sent to parliaments to be approved. That is now not going to happen, once again raising the risk that the...
Oct 15 2018 // The U.K. and the European Union are on course to miss this week’s key milestone on the road to a Brexit deal after talks broke up in stalemate on Sunday, people familiar with the matter said.A weekend of intense...
Oct 12 2018 // Simplesurance founder and CEO Robin von Hein sat down last year with Insurance Journal’s sister publication, Carrier Management, to discuss the company’s strategy.Based on the edge of Berlin’s trendy...
Oct 11 2018 // The profitability of London market and Lloyd’s insurers is expected to remain under pressure in 2018, despite the fact that rates improved slightly following the catastrophe losses in the second quarter of 2017,...
Oct 11 2018 // Brexit negotiators are edging toward a compromise on the thorniest issue in talks, even as officials on both sides warned that obstacles still stand in the way of a deal.EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said...
Oct 10 2018 // At least two U.S. states and two European Union member states are investigating a breach at Alphabet Inc.’s Google that may have exposed private profile data of at least 500,000 users to hundreds of external...
Oct 10 2018 // Lloyd’s said it is working on transferring all European Economic Area (EEA) business to its EU headquarters, Lloyd’s Brussels, before the end of 2020 via a Part VII transfer. (Part VII transfers, in part,...
Oct 10 2018 // Despite thousands of jobs set to move to the continent due to Brexit, Britain’s financial services minister said on Wednesday he would do all he can to ensure the City of London remains a major financial center.John...
Oct 9 2018 // The Bank of England ratcheted up the pressure on the European Union to help stave off the threat a no-deal Brexit poses to trillions of pounds of derivative contracts and millions of insurance policies.The EU has made...
Oct 9 2018 // Britain said on Monday it could not agree a divorce deal with the European Union without a framework pact on future relations, throwing down the gauntlet to the bloc which also says it cannot move on talks until London...
Oct 8 2018 // Britain’s businesses are suffering from Brexit-related uncertainty as exports slow, recruitment difficulties mount and investment plans are scaled back, two surveys showed on Monday.The British Chambers of Commerce...
Oct 5 2018 // After months listening to the U.K. warn about the risks posed by a no-deal Brexit, European Union financial regulators are now stepping up plans to avert a market meltdown.Daniele Nouy, the European Central Bank’s...
Oct 3 2018 // U.S. Congress is taking the first steps toward setting national rules governing how companies use consumers data – although one of its goals might be to prevent states from enacting stronger privacy protections of...
Oct 3 2018 // KPMG expects Britain to ignore calls to loosen banking rules after Brexit and said in a report on Wednesday it may even become tougher with measures to protect consumers and defend its financial stability from cyber...