All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 9 2016 // Allianz Insurance plc, the U.K. subsidiary of Allianz SE, has partnered with global cyber security consultancy, IT Governance Ltd., to offer commercial customers a free online cyber risk assessment.The Allianz Cyber Risk...
Jun 6 2016 // When discussing his career as a chief financial officer, Patrick Regan, group chief financial officer for QBE, emphasizes the importance of people and the team the CFO builds.“You’re only as successful as the...
Jun 3 2016 // Brexit poses a grave threat to London’s insurance jobs and businesses, according to the International Underwriting Association of London (IUA), Lloyds, and Richard Brindle, group chief executive officer of Fidelis.In...
May 24 2016 // Britain would face trade barriers if it left the European Union and its single market, the EU’s financial services commissioner Jonathan Hill said on Monday.Hill, a Briton appointed to the European Commission by UK...
May 23 2016 // Aegon NV, the Dutch owner of U.S. insurer Transamerica Corp., divested the final 3 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) of annuities from its U.K. portfolio to Legal & General Group Plc.The transaction, which covers 27,000...
May 16 2016 // China has asked Britain for advice on plans to create a financial super-regulator, as it looks to improve financial oversight following last year’s stock market crash, sources with knowledge of the talks told...
May 13 2016 // Global, diversified insurers are best positioned to withstand the industry’s top economic and competitive challenges, according to a report published by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings.Geographic and...
May 13 2016 // Chubb announced the launch of a suite of three transactional risk liability insurance products for clients in the UK, across Europe and other international markets outside North America.In addition, Richard Britain has...
May 12 2016 // Pension Insurance Corp. agreed to insure 900 million pounds ($1.3 billion) of Aon Plc’s Retirement Plan in the U.K. as the world’s second-largest insurance broker seeks to reduce risk.The agreement with Aon...
May 3 2016 // Aegon NV agreed to buy BlackRock Inc.’s U.K. defined-contribution pension business to bolster its position in the country’s workplace-savings market. The deal will transfer 12 billion pounds ($17.6 billion) of...
May 2 2016 // Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said on Friday it expected Britons to vote to remain in the European Union by a small majority in a June 23 referendum, but that the risk of leaving was a negative for the...
Apr 25 2016 // Britain, Europe’s biggest financial center, votes on June 23 on whether to leave the European Union.The country’s banking and fund management industries are among those that could lose most from a so-called...
Apr 22 2016 // U.S. President Barack Obama made an impassioned appeal on Friday for Britain to remain in the European Union, saying membership had magnified Britain’s place in the world and made the bloc stronger and more outward...
Apr 20 2016 // The City of London should expect its preeminent role in the global financial system to fade if Britain leaves the European Union, according to Mark Carney.The governor of the Bank of England — the de facto custodian...
Apr 15 2016 // More than three-quarters of U.K. public companies surveyed by an auditors’ group haven’t discussed contingency planning for the nation’s potential exit from the European Union with the chairman or the...
Apr 14 2016 // New York-based private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners LLC on Monday entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Simply Business, an online brokerage service, which delivers tailored small business insurance...
Apr 12 2016 // AXA SA, France’s largest insurer, is in talks to sell most of its U.K. life-insurance and wealth-investments units, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. AXA is likely to sell parts of the businesses,...
Apr 12 2016 // In January, BAE Systems Plc got a routine call from a new client: The health-care company’s computer systems were mysteriously crashing. BAE’s sleuths soon discovered a dangerous new strain of a virus called...
Apr 11 2016 // Aegon NV, the Dutch owner of U.S. insurer Transamerica Corp., agreed to sell two-thirds of its U.K. annuity portfolio to Rothesay Life Ltd., helping to boost capital buffers under new regulations.Aegon will initially...
Apr 11 2016 // Sam Woods, a former U.K. Treasury official, was appointed as deputy governor for regulation at the Bank of England, replacing Andrew Bailey.Woods — who will continue as the central bank’s executive director of...