All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2015 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. in Worcester, Massachusetts, reported on July 29 net income of $120.7 million for its 2015 second quarter, up 46 percent from $82.6 million net income during last year’s second...
Jul 27 2015 // Aviva plc will target 2.5 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) of investments in renewables and energy efficiency over five years to cut exposure to climate risks.The company, which manages about 250 billion pounds of assets,...
Jul 17 2015 // The head of Britain’s financial watchdog is stepping down early in a move some industry watchers said was a sign the government wants to take a less confrontational stance towards banks.Sources familiar with the...
Jun 4 2015 // This is the first of a two-part column on green bonds. The second installment will include interviews with Axa, QBE and Zurich.Ahead the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December, also called COP21 or...
Jun 3 2015 // The risk of a British exit [‘Brexit’] from the European Union is causing major political uncertainty for the insurance industry, the chief executive of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said on...
May 29 2015 // Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to renegotiate Britain’s ties with Europe and then give voters a referendum on European Union membership by the end of 2017. Following are the views of business...
May 11 2015 // Underground disposal of waste water produced from oil and natural gas wells has been blamed for triggering thousands of small earthquakes in Oklahoma and a number of other U.S. states since 2009.Heightened seismic activity...
May 1 2015 // London-based intermediaries Hyperion Insurance Group Limited* and R K Harrison Holdings Limited (RKH) have completed the merger of their two businesses, following receipt of applicable regulatory and legal...
Apr 21 2015 // As early as 2016 or 2017 commercial insurance will likely be bought and sold regularly over the Internet.That likely-to-be controversial opinion is courtesy of Compare.com CEO Andrew Rose. As he speaks to a reporter, in...
Apr 15 2015 // ACE Group today announced the appointment of Glenn O’Halloran as environmental risk underwriter as it continues to invest in building its environmental liability insurance capabilities in the U.K. and...
Apr 15 2015 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that Jonathan Evans will join the board of directors and become the Non-Executive Chairman of Allied World Managing Agency Limited, its Lloyd’s managing agency,...
Apr 9 2015 // Hastings Insurance Group increased its customer base by 20 percent in 2014, boosting profitability and setting the U.K. car insurer on track for a potential initial public offering this year.Hastings, which generates 90...
Apr 8 2015 // Insurers based in the United Kingdom underwriting a material amount of European business should be monitoring the potential consequences of the United Kingdom exiting or renegotiating its position within the European Union...
Apr 6 2015 // ACE Group has launched ACE Multinational Partner, an enhanced package of comprehensive property and casualty insurance cover spanning traditionally separate lines of business, for U.K. and Ireland based companies with one...
Mar 30 2015 // Towergate Finance plc said it won court approval for its plan to restructure 1 billion pounds ($1.49 billion) of debt. The restructuring will be completed by early April, the U.K. insurance broker said in a statement...
Mar 24 2015 // Last year 81 percent of large UK businesses and 60 percent of small companies suffered a cyber security breach. In response to this increasing threat, a report published by the UK government and Marsh, one of the...
Mar 20 2015 // The Bank of England said on Friday that it would apply new European Union insurance regulations “proportionately,” following industry fears that the central bank might seek to add extra rules for companies...
Mar 13 2015 // Munich Re has published a report, which notes that “over the past years, persistent extreme weather conditions have triggered severe natural catastrophes and caused losses in the billion range.”In addition the...
Feb 26 2015 // Insured losses in 2014 were at the lowest level seen since 2009, according to Guy Carpenter’s annual Global Catastrophe Review.The report says that significant insured losses in 2014 totaled approximately USD33...
Feb 24 2015 // Aviva plc was fined 17.6 million pounds ($27.2 million) by the U.K. financial markets regulator for failing to manage conflicts of interest among funds in its fixed-income business.From August 2005 to June 2013, Aviva...