All the headlines from our Italy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2020 // The number of people infected with coronavirus topped 110,000 across the world as the outbreak reached more countries and caused more economic damage.* More than 110,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus across...
Mar 3 2020 // AIR Worldwide published an evaluation of potential coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in other countries, using its pandemic model to run hypothetical scenarios, which could reveal those countries at the highest...
Mar 2 2020 // The rapid spread of the new coronavirus has increased fears of a pandemic, sending global markets into a dive and prompting governments to step up control measures. As of Monday, there have been over 89,000 cases of the...
Feb 28 2020 // The World Health Organization says the coronavirus isn’t yet a global pandemic. Bonds that insure against just such a catastrophe say that it probably is.The bonds, sold in 2017 by the World Bank to raise money for...
Feb 27 2020 // Trieste, Italy meet Columbus, Ohio. Ciao! Hello!Two large insurers — Ohio’s Nationwide and Italy’s Generali — are teaming up to serve commercial insurance customers with global needs. The insurers announced...
Feb 25 2020 // Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 16 on Tuesday, the most outside China, heightening its international isolation as dozens of worst-hit nations from South Korea to Italy accelerated emergency measures to curb the...
Feb 21 2020 // Axel Theis (62), member of the board of Allianz SE responsible for insurance in German-speaking countries and Central and Eastern Europe, is retiring at his own request on March 31, 2020 after more than 33 years at...
Dec 27 2019 // The fourth and final insured property loss estimate for the hailstorms that hit the greater Sydney region in December 2018 rose to A$798 million ($553.2 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based...
Dec 10 2019 // Victor Insurance Holdings, managing general underwriter, has received approval from Lloyd’s if London to establish Victor Syndicate 2288 and commence underwriting effective January 1, 2020 with stamp capacity of...
Nov 15 2019 // Venice suffered its second exceptionally high tide in a week, with waters rising 154 centimeters (61 inches) above their benchmark late morning Friday, the Ansa news agency reported.The historic city is still reeling from...
Oct 10 2019 // Eyewear tycoon Leonardo Del Vecchio on Wednesday urged Mediobanca to build up its investment banking business in a challenge to venerable merchant bank’s strategy, nearly a month after he snapped up a 7% stake that...
Sep 27 2019 // AXA XL Insurance announced the appointment of Saverio Longo as country leader, Italy. He will join AXA XL in November and will be based in Milan. He succeeds Simona Fumagalli, who was appointed head of International...
Sep 23 2019 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Francesco Semprini as head Italy, effective Nov. 1, 2019. Based in Milan, Semprini will be responsible for managing the strategy, development and performance of Swiss Re Corporate...
Sep 23 2019 // HDI Global SE announced that Francesco Semprini, the long serving managing director of its Italy branch is leaving the company on Oct. 31 to become Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ head Italy.He will be succeeded by...
Sep 17 2019 // The long-standing head of Italian infrastructure group Atlantia is ready to step down as a probe into a deadly bridge collapse snowballs, prompting its top shareholder, the Benetton family, to pull support, sources said on...
Jul 31 2019 // AXA XL Insurance announced the appointment of Simona Fumagalli as head of International Financial Lines, Europe, based in Milan. In her new role, Fumagalli will be responsible for developing the business line’s...
Jul 10 2019 // Two of Italy’s largest financial institutions, insurer Assicurazioni Generali and state fund CDP on Wednesday urged China to do more to open up its financial services industry to Italian firms and other foreign...
Apr 23 2019 // It’s a thin line where the patina of age on Europe’s countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect. Like with so many loved ones, all is assumed to be fine, until suddenly it’s not.In the wake of...
Mar 15 2019 // Italy’s top insurer Generali said it was ready to look around for growth opportunities in Europe, Asia and the U.S. on Thursday and said it was well positioned to achieve the targets it set in November for the years...
Mar 14 2019 // Italy’s top insurer Assicurazioni Generali raised its dividend for 2018 after beating its business plan targets and posting growth in net and operating profits.In a statement on Thursday, the company said it was also...