All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2010 // German insurer Allianz has tapped Britain’s largest private pension fund and one that invests the pensions of Canada’s Mounties to make a joint bid for Britain’s sole high-speed railway, sources...
Oct 5 2010 // The Obama administration on Sunday warned Americans of potential terrorist threats in Europe and urged them to be vigilant in public places, including tourist spots and transportation hubs.A State Department travel alert...
Sep 27 2010 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has removed its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on U.K.-based non-life insurer AXA Insurance U.K. PLC (AXAI) from CreditWatch with negative...
Aug 18 2010 // Insurer Aviva PLC said Monday it rejected a £5 billion ($7.8 billion) cash offer from rival RSA Insurance Group PLC for some of its general insurance businesses because the deal wasn’t in the best interest of...
Jul 21 2010 // Britain and the United States said Tuesday it was not too late for a peaceful solution to the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program, but said they were determined to enforce new sanctions.The United Nations approved...
Jun 30 2010 // In a recently published report Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that it believes “underlying underwriting performance in the U.K. non-life insurance industry has come under increasing pressure from...
May 28 2010 // Deflation and a lost decade can be avoided it seems; all we need are perfect central bankers, sensible politicians, a biddable electorate and cooperative investors.Nothing to worry about there, then. In a speech on Monday,...
May 17 2010 // Volcanic ash from Iceland caused widespread disruption at airports in Britain and other parts of northern Europe on Monday, grounding 1,000 flights and delaying hundreds of thousands of passengers, aviation officials...
May 7 2010 // Britain’s opposition Conservatives became the biggest party in parliament on Friday in a bitterly fought election, but were set to fall short of a majority, leaving it unclear who would run the country.British asset...
Apr 21 2010 // European airports started to return to life on Tuesday after five days cut off from the rest of the world by a volcanic ash cloud, but some countries were more cautious after reports a new cloud might be on its way.The...
Apr 20 2010 // Flights from large parts of Europe are set to resume on Tuesday under a deal agreed by the European Union to free up airspace closed by a cloud of ash hurled into the sky by an Icelandic volcano.However, with the cloud...
Jan 10 2010 // American-born poet, T.S. Eliot, did little to further the cause of attracting people into the insurance business. As far back as 1922, in his famous work, “The Wasteland,” the sometime bank employee created a...
Dec 11 2009 // The European Union increased pressure on the International Monetary Fund on Friday to consider a global tax on financial transactions to limit the risk of another economic crisis.In a draft statement expected to be...
Dec 6 2009 // A series of violent storms struck the west coast of England, beginning Nov. 19. Cumbria, the county just below the Scottish border, was the most severely affected area, where heavy rain caused extensive flooding in a...
Dec 3 2009 // France tried to reassure Britain on Thursday that its push for tougher financial regulation in the European Union would not undermine the City of London, saying new rules would not hurt anyone system in particular.Tensions...
Oct 5 2009 // London’s insurance market comprises general carriers, specialty carriers, reinsurers, brokers, underwriters, claims handlers, lawyers, accountants and their adjuncts, who work together to sell “The...
Oct 5 2009 // London’s insurance market comprises general carriers, specialty carriers, reinsurers, brokers, underwriters, claims handlers, lawyers, accountants and their adjuncts, who work together to sell “The...
Jul 22 2009 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) and the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority (FSA) have agreed to work together on issues that affect insurance consumers in the U.K. and the U.S.Florida Insurance...
Jun 18 2009 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘A+’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings to Everest Reinsurance Co. (Ireland) Ltd. S&P also said the outlook on Everest Re...
Mar 19 2009 // John Ibbett and pigs go back a long way. “The pig manager pushed me round in a pram,” recalls Ibbett, whose family has been farming on the same site since 1939.Now he’s proud his family farm can turn muck...