Spain’s Internet service provider, Terra Networks, announced that merger talks with U.S. Lycos had been successfully concluded and that the...
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ACE Ltd. isn’t the only insurance company to see earnings increase in the 1st quarter. Despite some difficulties, notably the...
U.K. automobile insurer, Direct Line, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBOS), announced a startling success for its 9...
Winterhur Insurance Group, a subsidiary of credit Swiss/First Boston, has agreed to pay £332 million ($515 million) for the British...
Europe’s largest mutual life insurer, Edinburgh-based Standard Life, has set a date of June 27 for a special general meeting...
CGU, the U.K.’s largest insurer, has agreed to establish an investment fund in partnership with the venture capital firm Quester...
The pending merger of U.K. Insurers CGU and Norwich Union was approved by the European Commission, and will accordingly proceed...
Driven in part by 1999’s particularly poor results, and perhaps encouraged by the recent mega-merger announcements from Europe (CGU-Norwich Union...
On March 9, the German financial world quaked with the announcement that Deutsche Bank (DB), Germany’s largest bank, planned to...
The distinct possibility that damage awards arising from automobile accident claims will substantially increase in the U.K. has prompted the...