All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2018 // Lloyd’s of London reported that it has received licence approval from the National Bank of Belgium for Lloyd’s Insurance Co.Lloyd’s Brussels will be able to write non-life risks from the European Economic...
May 23 2018 // Lisa Meyer’s London hair salon is a cozy place where her mother serves homemade macaroons, children climb on chairs and customers chat above the whirr of hairdryers.Most of the time Meyer is focused on hairstyles,...
May 22 2018 // Regulators are beginning to teach robots who’s the boss.After spending billions of dollars on cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, Europe’s banks and insurers face tougher scrutiny of the tools...
May 22 2018 // Data privacy rules coming into force this week are giving Europe’s fledgling cyber insurance market a boost as they make companies more aware of the risks caused by customer information breaches.Europe’s...
May 21 2018 // CNA Hardy, a specialist commercial insurance provider for clients within the Lloyd’s and company markets, is has appointed Delphine Leroy as country manager for France. Reporting to Stuart Middleton, CEO Continental...
May 21 2018 // Lloyd’s of London remains on schedule to have its post-Brexit outpost ready for business beginning in January 2019, CEO Inga Beale confirmed at a recent meeting of U.S. regulators in Washington,...
May 17 2018 // There is no guarantee that Brexit won’t disrupt millions of insurance and derivative contracts and it is still up to firms to take preventive measures, the European Union’s financial services chief said on...
May 16 2018 // Bermuda’s Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has asked the Central Bank of Ireland to authorize a new insurance subsidiary in Dublin, Ireland.Aspen said it is pursuing the new Irish subsidiary – Aspen Insurance...
May 16 2018 // The civil fines for non-compliance with the European’s new data privacy law can be steep but organizations across Europe should not expect to have their insurance cover them.Unless the business or organization is in...
May 15 2018 // If European powers are to succeed in holding together a nuclear deal with Iran that the U.S. abandoned a week ago, then one issue they’ll need to consider is the insurance of oil tankers hauling the Persian Gulf...
May 13 2018 // European countries and companies that continue to do business with Iran could face U.S. sanctions, National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday.Part of the flaw with the Iran deal that President Donald Trump rejected...
May 11 2018 // Oil tanker owners are facing a nervous wait to find out whether they can carry on doing business with Iran after President Trump said on Tuesday he was reinstating a raft of sanctions against the Persian Gulf country.The...
May 10 2018 // During April, five separate storm systems caused severe thunderstorms across the United States, the strongest of which affected the Plains, Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast, with nearly 70 tornado...
May 9 2018 // FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS/PARIS— Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web.There’s one problem: many of the regulators...
May 8 2018 // Tokio Marine Group said it has received regulatory approval from Luxembourg’s Commissariat aux Assurances and the Japanese Financial Services Authority to set up a new insurance company in Luxembourg.The new carrier,...
May 8 2018 // Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer Sompo International Holdings Ltd. said that the integration of Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Company of Europe Limited (SJNKE) into Sompo International reached a significant...
May 7 2018 // Lloyd’s of London, AIG, Allianz and other insurers are ignoring assurances and establishing new hubs in Britain and the European Union before Brexit in March 2019 to ensure access to customers.The moves come despite...
May 3 2018 // The European Central Bank has designed a new test simulating cyber attacks on banks, stock exchanges and other firms that are critical for the functioning of the financial system, it said on Wednesday.The move follows a...
May 2 2018 // Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU...
May 2 2018 // The European Central Bank and the Bank of England have been drafted in to study the threats that Brexit poses to financial services. Just don’t expect this “technical working group” to save the...