Heavy Rains Lash Haiti, Complicating Rescue Efforts for Earthquake Survivors August 17, 2021 By Laura Gottesdiener LES CAYES, Haiti – Heavy rains lashed Haiti on Tuesday night, complicating rescue efforts and drenching thousands left homeless by...
Shell to Pay $111 Million to Resolve Long-Running Oil-Spill Dispute in Nigeria August 17, 2021 By William Clowes Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Nigerian unit agreed to pay a local community $111 million to resolve a long-running dispute over...
Hudson Structured Capital Management Buys Majority Stake in MGA Occam August 17, 2021 Occam Underwriting, the London-based specialist lines managing general agency, announced that Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM) has recently acquired a...
People Moves: Carpenter Names Willis Re’s Harden President of APAC; HUB Appoints Stait to Lead Canada Cannabis Specialty; Riega Is Fidelis’ Head of Sustainability August 16, 2021 This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Guy Carpenter, HUB International and Fidelis Insurance. A summary of these...
Russia TV Channel Abandons Talks with Google to Get YouTube Account Unblocked August 16, 2021 By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW – Tsargrad TV, a news channel owned by a sanctioned Russian businessman, said it had abandoned talks with Google...
Oneglobal Launches Netherlands Office, Naming van der Wyck as CEO August 16, 2021 London-based Oneglobal Broking announced the launch of a Netherlands office with Alex van der Wyck named CEO of Oneglobal Netherlands....
Willis Towers Watson Promotes Hess to President and Future CEO August 16, 2021 Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson announced that its board of directors has unanimously selected Carl Hess as the company’s new...
Death Toll Soars from Haiti Earthquake; U.S. Deploys Search and Rescue Teams August 16, 2021 By Jim Wyss and Ezra Fieser The U.S. deployed search and rescue teams to help find survivors among the debris of collapsed buildings in Haiti as...
HSBC Buys AXA Singapore for $575M in Push to Fuel Expansion Across Southeast Asia August 16, 2021 By Denise Wee HSBC Holdings Plc agreed to buy AXA Singapore for $575 million in a push to build a global wealth hub...
Accenture: Systems Restored, ‘No Impact’ From Reported Ransomware Attack August 13, 2021 By Tiyashi Datta Accenture said it has fully restored certain affected systems, after a CNBC reporter tweeted of a hacker group saying it...