International
XL Group Is Reportedly Drawing Potential Suitors, Including Allianz
Bermuda-based insurer XL Group Ltd. is attracting interest from rivals including Allianz SE of Germany, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Interest from insurers in potentially ...
Swiss Re in Talks Over a Possible Huge Investment From Japan’s SoftBank
SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to buy as much as a third of reinsurance giant Swiss Re AG, according to people familiar with the discussions. Swiss Re confirmed the talks and said they are at a ...
Sapiens Boosts North American Market Share With Adaptik Acquisition
Sapiens International Corp. has agreed to snatch up Adaptik, a rival insurance software company focused on policy administration and billing. The move is expected to help the Israeli company boost ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Business Wire Dealing With Ongoing Cyber Attack
Business Wire, the corporate news release distributor owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, on Tuesday said it has been suffering for nearly a week from a cyberattack designed to disable ...
Conservative UK Lawmaker Pushes for Harder Brexit, Threatens May’s Leadership
It was appropriate that Jacob Rees-Mogg should have found himself in the middle of another fight. The British Conservative lawmaker has been in the middle of all the important fights lately. ...
XL Catlin Expands New P&B Aviation Insurance Platform With Added Features
XL Catlin has added enhancements to its new P&B aviation insurance platform in a push to give brokers more options. The carrier's VP Bind Speed platform was designed to boost its underwriting ...
UK Exports of Finance, Insurance Services Reach Record in 2016
U.K. exports of financial and related professional services grew to a record in 2016 as all regions surged. Exports rose 15.8 percent to 95.7 billion pounds ($136 billion), according new data ...
Executives On The Move at Chubb, AIR Worldwide and Aon Benfield
Chubb brought on an AIG veteran as its new chief claims officer. AIR Worldwide has a new senior vice president of Global Resilience. Aon Benfield's UK arm named a new chief operating ...