All the headlines from our London Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2020 // The chances of Britain leaving the European Union without a trade deal have risen sharply as negotiations have been threatened by London’s insistence that it have full autonomy over its state aid plans, negotiators...
Aug 25 2020 // Lloyd’s of London has named Carey Bond as U.S. head of Claims, a newly created role that stems from the Future at Lloyd’s strategy.Based in Greenville, South Carolina, he’ll be responsible for overseeing...
Aug 24 2020 // Britain and the European Union made scant progress towards a deal on future ties in talks last week, and their chief negotiators blamed each other for the stalemate as time ticks down to an end-of-year...
Aug 18 2020 // Specialist insurer International General Insurance Holdings announced the appointment of Brian James as class underwriter for Cargo.James will be based in IGI’s London office and will be responsible for developing a...
Aug 17 2020 // After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students.So, in 2017,...
Aug 14 2020 // Insurers in the Middle East are expected to absorb a large part of the losses from Beirut’s explosion last week with Lloyd’s of London and other international players expected to be less exposed, insurance...
Aug 13 2020 // Like all pandemics, COVID-19 is not an accidental or random event, Frank Snowden argues in his magisterial history “Epidemics and society: from the Black Death to the present.”“Epidemics afflict societies...
Aug 5 2020 // New Jersey-based specialty lines program administrator Axon Underwriting Services has acquired the renewal portfolio of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty’s (AGCS) U.S. contaminated and consumer products recall...
Jul 30 2020 // London’s normally buzzing financial districts will still be a pale shadow by the end of the year, as banks plan for no more than half their staff, who have mostly worked from home throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, to...
Jul 29 2020 // Aritra Chakravarty, founder of London-based online accounts and investments provider Dozens, admits it’s a tough time to be seeking up to 15 million pounds ($19 million) for a start-up.“It’s definitely a...
Jul 27 2020 // AXA XL announced the new leadership team for its UK & Lloyd’s region. Effective immediately, the appointments are part of the proposed changes to the operating model of AXA XL’s Insurance business following...
Jul 24 2020 // A new model clause for clarifying coverage of motor terrorism risks has been published by the International Underwriting Association.It has been developed after a growing spate of terrorist attacks using vehicles led to...
Jul 24 2020 // Tysers, the independent, London-based wholesale insurance broker, announced that Clive Buesnel will become its next chief executive officer, subject to regulatory approval.Buesnel has spent much of his career in both...
Jul 24 2020 // Britain and the European Union clashed on Thursday over the chances of securing a free trade agreement, with Brussels deeming it “unlikely” but London holding out hope one could be reached in September.Since...
Jul 23 2020 // A Boston-based national wholesale insurance broker is offering what it says is “among the first and most accessible” insurance policies for commercial risks arising from pandemics and epidemics.The policy,...
Jul 23 2020 // Insurer Zurich has decided not to renew cover for the Canadian government’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline, said a spokeswoman for the project, which is opposed by environmental campaigners and some indigenous...
Jul 22 2020 // Ki, the first fully digital and algorithmically driven Lloyd’s of London syndicate, launched in collaboration with Brit Ltd. and Google Cloud, has announced the appointment of Dan Hearsum as managing director....
Jul 21 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. is bracing for a long summer of legal battles that could see the end of its reign in London and entitle its drivers to a long list of workers’ rights.A dispute over whether its drivers should...
Jul 20 2020 // UK financial regulators took aim at insurers’ attempts to compare the coronavirus lockdown to government warnings on cigarettes and alcohol, telling a London court that businesses had no choice but to shut down...
Jul 17 2020 // The London Market Group (LMG) launched a paper outlining an ambitious approach to free trade in financial services, using the forthcoming UK-Switzerland trade discussions as a template for an approach to other third...