All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 12 2017 // AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced the appointment of Michael Leahey as vice president and deputy head of Catastrophe Underwriting for Europe, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Israel, for AXIS Re.In addition to...
Apr 11 2017 // Ebix Europe, the electronic messaging communications specialists for the global re/insurance market, announced that insurer Beazley is the latest carrier to join its EbixExchange accounting platform.Using ACORD standards,...
Apr 10 2017 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), the London-based subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has appointed Alexandra Paton as head of Continental Europe for Global Financial Risks (GFR).Paton will be based in both Paris...
Apr 5 2017 // Britain will get 60 million euros (51.3 million pounds) from the European Union to repair damage caused by the floods last year, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.Britain had asked for EU support to rebuild infrastructure damaged...
Apr 4 2017 // PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has released the 2017 update of the PERILS Industry Exposure Database (IED).The updated database is composed of more...
Apr 3 2017 // The City of London should emerge largely unscathed from Brexit even though thousands of banking and insurance jobs could move to the continent, the financial district’s policy chief said.The “City” or...
Mar 30 2017 // Brussels expects to lure other financial players after convincing Lloyd’s of London, the world’s largest specialty insurance market, to make the city its post-Brexit European hub.While Lloyd’s choice on...
Mar 30 2017 // Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance market, announced it will set up a European insurance company in Brussels in preparation for the UK’s exit from the European Union.The Brussels’...
Mar 29 2017 // Failure to strike a trade deal with the European Union by a two-year deadline would force Britain to adopt World Trade Organization arrangements, bringing with it a host of new negotiations and complications.In a nutshell,...
Mar 29 2017 // Naples, Fla.-based RMC Group, a consortium of insurance and actuarial consulting firms, has announced it plans to expand its international operations by opening two new offices in the United Kingdom.“Establishing a...
Mar 29 2017 // Prime Minister Theresa May set the U.K. on course for leaving the European Union in two years’ time, a divorce that will redefine the country’s relationship with its largest trading partner and end decades of...
Mar 28 2017 // Lloyd’s of London, the world’s largest specialty insurance market, will this week pick Brussels or Luxembourg for its planned European Union subsidiary, after Dublin had been an early favorite, sources...
Mar 27 2017 // London has retained the mantle as the world’s top financial center, though uncertainty about the implications of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union saw its lead over Asian rivals narrow, according to a...
Mar 24 2017 // One afternoon in mid-January, Prime Minister Theresa May walked into a meeting room in the Swiss resort of Davos to face Wall Street’s most powerful bankers.May had delivered her vision two days earlier for pulling...
Mar 24 2017 // PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has settled a $3 billion negligence lawsuit over the October 2011 collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd, the futures and commodities brokerage once run by former New Jersey governor Jon...
Mar 23 2017 // The European Commission could introduce EU passporting and lower regulatory requirements for financial technology firms, moves that could undercut London’s leading position in “fintech” as Britain gets...
Mar 21 2017 // The 20 largest European cedants have continued to buy more reinsurance as soft market conditions prevail, although the pace at which retention ratios are falling has been more subdued, according to A.M. Best in a new...
Mar 21 2017 // Allianz Research projections show that total global premium income rose to a new record high of 3,650 billion euros ($3.9224 billion U.S. dollars) last year (excluding health insurance).In a year-on-year comparison, the...
Mar 20 2017 // The chairman of China’s privately-held Anbang Insurance Group said at the China Development Forum on Saturday he is bullish on investing in Europe despite great uncertainty over issues including refugees, economic...
Mar 17 2017 // Greenlight Reinsurance Ireland DAC*, the Dublin-based subsidiary of Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., announced the promotion of Patrick O’Brien to chief executive officer.O’Brien joined Greenlight Re Ireland as...