Global Economy
London Wants Post-Brexit Regulatory Help For Financial District
Britain's regulators should put more emphasis on keeping banks globally competitive after Brexit, the City of London financial district's policy chief said on Thursday. Catherine McGuinness said ...
Solving Financial System Cybersecurity Challenges Won’t Happen With Regulation: Fed Official
More rules may not be the best answer to protecting the financial system against cyber attacks, a Federal Reserve official said. "I don't think the solution to the cybersecurity problem rests in ...
China Taiping Insurance Group Wants to Buy $1.3B Hong Kong Tower
A unit of state-owned China Taiping Insurance Group is in advanced talks to acquire a newly built office tower in Hong Kong from Henderson Land Development Co., according to people with knowledge of ...
AIG Names New Division Leaders for Lexington Insurance, North America General Insurance
American International Group recently made two new major domestic executive appointments: Lex Baugh is AIG's new chief executive officer, North America General Insurance, and George Stratts has been ...
Britain’s Legal & General Is Expanding Into Japan
British's third-largest insurer, Legal & General, is launching an operation in Japan to offer company pension scheme insurance and investment management, Chief Executive Nigel Wilson said on ...
Fracking Poised to Resume in UK, 6 Years After Tremors Halted the Practice
Six years after Britain's first fracking operation was stymied by earth tremors, its shale gas industry is poised to try again with a technology that could transform the UK gas market and drastically ...
UK Regulator Launch Investigation of Wholesale Insurance Brokers
Britain's financial services industry regulator is to launch later this week a long-promised investigation into competition in the wholesale insurance broking market, where one top executive has ...
Hurricanes Also Hurt Liberty Mutual’s Q3 Results
Liberty Mutual Holding Co. Inc. reported a net loss of $665 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017, versus net income of $455 million for the same period in 2016. The net loss in the ...