Britain expects to seal a financial services cooperation pact with the European Union shortly, a senior finance ministry official told a conference on challenges from market fragmentation. The City of London’s ties with the bloc were severed after Britain left …
Roanoke Insurance Group is expanding to Canada to provide insurance and surety bonds to companies involved in logistics, transportation and shipping. The new entity, Roanoke Insurance Group Canada, Inc., (RIG CA), is an affiliate of Roanoke Insurance and part of …
BRUSSELS – The European Union threatened on Wednesday to ban exports of COVID-19 vaccines to Britain to safeguard scarce doses for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic that would jeopardize plans to restart travel this summer. …
Over the last decade, as insurers and reinsurers have sought profitable opportunities for growth, they increasingly have handed the underwriting pen to managing general agents, managing general underwriters, program administrators and other underwriting agencies. These specialized distribution partners have not …
Britain proposed weakening the market grip of “Big Four” auditors on Thursday and making company directors responsible for spotting fraud after the collapses of retailer BHS and builder Carillion. Directors would have to repay their bonuses if the company went …
With the volume of premium generated by managing general agents and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) rocketing skyward in recent years, AM Best had decided it is time to deliver assessments of these entities. “What we’ve seen is really …
Funds investing in “brown” or polluting companies would be hit far harder than environmentally friendly “green” funds in a climate-related market shock, the European Union’s securities watchdog said on Wednesday in its first study of its kind. Brown funds spread …
CFC, a specialist managing general agent, announced it has acquired Insane Technologies, an Australian cyber security and incident response provider. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is subject to approval by the Australian Foreign Investment Board. …
Xenia Broking Group, the credit insurance and surety specialist, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Status Credit Insurance Brokers Ltd., a specialist trade credit broker, headquartered in East Grinstead, England. The transaction will complete in April 2021, …
MILAN – Italy’s top insurer Generali is considering an acquisition in Russia worth about 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion), although the project is still at a very early stage, a source close to the situation said on Wednesday, confirming a …
