February 8, 2024
AXA SA’s Chief Executive Officer Thomas Buberl says he intends to “scale up” the firm’s business insuring corporate risks in the next phase of the firm’s growth. “In a highly volatile and highly unpredictable environment it is important to take …
April 29, 2022
Thomas Buberl has been reappointed as AXA’s chief executive officer, while Antoine Gosset-Grainville has been name chairman of the board of directors, succeeding Denis Duverne, who has retired. Burberl first became CEO and a director of AXA in September 2016. …
November 1, 2021
AXA, France’s biggest insurer, said on Friday it would tighten its policy regarding investing in and insuring the oil and gas sector, as pressure builds on finance to help curtail new production. The announcement, which comes before global leaders meet …
September 29, 2021
Climate change has returned to the top of the list of insurers’ biggest concerns as the vaccine roll-out and gradual lifting of health restrictions see pandemic fears ease in many countries. Global warming was ranked as the biggest risk to …
August 2, 2021
AXA posted a 180% surge in first-half net income on Monday as the French insurer rebounded from a spike in pandemic-related claims that led to a 1.5 billion euro ($1.8 billion) charge last year. Europe’s second-largest insurer after Allianz said …
July 12, 2021
Eight of the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance companies on Sunday launched an alliance to help speed up a transition to a net zero emissions economy. The companies, which include Europe’s top three insurers by premiums – Allianz, AXA and …
March 12, 2021
AXA SA, France’s biggest insurer, is dropping German energy giant RWE AG as a client in a decision that highlights how taboo the coal business has become. Not even an appeal from RWE Chief Executive Officer Rolf Martin Schmitz to …
October 16, 2020
AXA said that it has completed the sale of its life and savings, property and casualty, and pension businesses in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia to Austria’s UNIQA Insurance Group for a total cash consideration of Euro 1.0 billion. The …
October 1, 2020
Pandemics became the top concern for insurance professionals this year as the COVID-19 crisis roils the industry worldwide. Infectious diseases and pandemics were ranked as the most significant risks to society over the next five to 10 years in a …
May 26, 2020
A Paris court ruled last week that AXA should pay a restaurant owner two months of revenue losses caused by the virus pandemic. AXA had argued its policy did not cover business disruption caused by the health crisis. Stephane Manigold, …