Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
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ebix.com Partners With Warranty Gold
Apr 12 2000 // ebix.com has paired with Warranty Gold, referring its customers to the vehicle service contract provider for extended vehicle warranties. In turn, Warranty Gold will refer customers to ebix for insurance needs. The...
ChannelPoint and InsurQuote Complete Merger
Apr 10 2000 // ChannelPoint Inc., a provider of Internet-based business-to-business solutions has completed its acquisition of InsurQuote Systems. The combined company, called ChannelPoint Inc., has approximately 1,000 employees based in...
PEOs Change Focus by Courting Agents as Partners, not Customers
Apr 10 2000 // As much as 10 years ago, independent insurance agents were being courted by professional employer organizations (PEOs), which viewed the small structure of agents’ offices as ripe for their human resources...
Dresdner Bank Head Resigns Just Days After Merger Failure
Apr 7 2000 // Dresdner chairman Bernhard Walter resigned Thursday, in part over the failed attempt to merge Dresdner Bank with Deutsche Bank. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank’s chairman held fast to his post amid criticism over the...
Allianz Stock Tumbles After Merger Failure
Apr 6 2000 // Allianz AG shares fell more than 10 percent Wednesday following the announcement that Deutsche Bank AG and Dresdner Bank AG had called off their planned merger. On Tuesday, Dresdner Bank accused Deutsche of undermining the...
Dresdner Suddenly Calls Off Planned Bank Merger
Apr 5 2000 // A month ago Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank (DB) announced plans to merge. With considerable help from their mutual shareholder, insurer Allianz AG, the two German banks seemed set to become the world’s largest bank,...
FirstFed Acquires Two Agencies
Apr 3 2000 // FirstFed Insurance Agency, which is part of FirstFed America Bancorp. Inc., has acquired Smith-Cochrane Insurance Agency and All Risk Insurance Agency, both of Swansea, Massachusetts. Frank Smith, the agency principal for...
CGU, Norwich Shareholders Approve Merger
Apr 3 2000 // Shareholders from both CGU PLC and Norwich Union PLC have approved the companies’ planned $12 billion merger. The marriage will create Britain’s largest insurance group and Europe’s fifth largest insurer....
Australia Juggles Mergers & Disasters
Apr 3 2000 // Driven in part by 1999’s particularly poor results, and perhaps encouraged by the recent mega-merger announcements from Europe (CGU-Norwich Union and Deutsche Bank-Dresdner Bank), Australia’s insurance/...
Allianz Comes Out the ‘Big Winner’ In German Bank Merger
Apr 3 2000 // On March 9, the German financial world quaked with the announcement that Deutsche Bank (DB), Germany’s largest bank, planned to merge with cross-town rival Dresdner Bank. Insurance giant Allianz AG was a driving...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Apr 3 2000 // Armstrong/Robitaille, Neumarket Anticipating a larger combined volume, shared markets access, added services and growth potential, Armstrong/Robitaille Business and Insurance Services acquired Neumarket Insurance...
Hub Acquires C.J. McCarthy Agency
Mar 30 2000 // The Hub Group Ltd., based in Toronto, has signed a letter of intent to acquire C.J. McCarthy Insurance Agency of Boston, Mass. The agency was founded by the McCarthy family in 1867 and has annual commission revenue of...
Royal London To Buy United Assurance
Feb 25 2000 // Life and pensions insurer Royal London announced that it has reached agreement with door-to-door mutual insurer United Assurance Group (UAG) to take over the company for £1.5 billion ($2.4 billion). This new consolidation...
Allianz Acquires Egyptian Insurer
Feb 21 2000 // Germany’s Allianz AG acquired a controlling 80 percent interest in Cairo-based Arab International Insurance Company (AIIC) by purchasing the 40 percent share held by France’s AXA. In 1998, AIIC reported gross...
ING Group To Acquire Interest in Mexican Insurer
Feb 21 2000 // Holland’s ING Group announced that it had agreed to acquire a 39.7 percent interest in a subsidiary of Mexico’s Savia Group, which owns 71.6 percent of Seguros Comercial America (SCA). With a 27 percent overall...
Zurich Set To Buy Abbey Life
Feb 2 2000 // Allied Dunbar, the life insurance unit of Allied Zurich Plc, a part of the Anglo-Swiss group, Zurich Financial Services, announced today that it had agreed to purchase Abbey Life from its current owner Lloyd’s TSB,...
Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Acquires Kansas Agency
Feb 2 2000 // Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Co. has acquired substantially all of the operations of Dulaney, Johnston & Priest, an insurance agency headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With over...
Zurich Acquires Stake in New China Life
Jan 8 2000 // Zurich Financial Services announced that it has acquired a 10 percent stake in China’s fourth largest life insurance company, New China Life, for $ 39 million. Zurich is part of a group of investors which includes...
Munich Am Re Closes CNA Life Re Acquisition
Jan 5 2000 // Munich American Reassurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany’s Munich Re, has completed the previously announced purchase of CNA Financial Corporation’s life insurance business, CNA Life Re and...
AXA Completes Acquisition of AXF Minority Shares
Jan 4 2000 // As of January 2 AXA Financial Inc., officially ceased to be an independent company and became a wholly owned subsidiary of its French parent The AXA Group. Its shares are no longer listed on the NYSE. AXF, the...
