Insurance Regulation

FCA Update on Avacade & Alexandra Associates Pensions Scandal

High Court orders illegal pension introducers Avacade, Alexandra Associates and their directors to pay £10,715,000 restitution to consumers. The two companies and three individuals must pay restitution to members of the public who were induced […]

Insurance Brokers

Purbeck Offers Personal Guarantee Solution for SMEs

Small business owners who have had to provide a personal guarantee to a lender for a business loan, are being urged to take action now to help prevent personal insolvency through business failure. A survey of […]

InsureTech

Coincover Secures Funding; Aims to Grow Cryptoasset Insurance Offer

The cryptocurrency market is heating up with significant growth in 2020 and a new wave of potential crypto investors ready to join in. But there is just one thing keeping them from taking the plunge […]

Emerging Risk

Quick Question; Do You Know How to Underwrite Cryptoassets Risk?

No, neither do we here at IE magazine. It is a confusing and rapidly evolving sector of the global finance and monetary system, but there is demand for asset protection of course. Now Evertas, the […]

Business

MBH Corporation Says SMEs Offer Great Investment Opportunities

New research from MBH Corporation plc, a UK headquartered listed diversified investment holding company that acquires successful, well established small to medium enterprises across multiple geographies and sectors, reveals that 94% of institutional investors and […]

Legal

Lockdown Showdown? Couples Keen to Draft Formal Asset Agreements

`Why should you have half my stuff? I bought it.’ That’s a common phrase heard around wine o’clock, after a co-habiting couple fractiously split up, following a hoo-ha over text messages from a work colleague. […]

Global insurance trends

State Street Finds That Asset Managers Are Coping With Covid

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced new research which reveals that 78 percent of insurers are confident their asset managers can navigate the current financial crisis caused by COVID-19. State Street surveyed insurance companies […]