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Insurance & Reinsurance

Risk manager prominence rising across boardrooms

Risk managers in financial institutions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are seizing the opportunity created by the financial crisis to demonstrate how they create value and are rapidly gaining new-found kudos in […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

Lloyd’s promises sanction against Bribery Act failures

Lloyd’s has issued a further reminder to members that it will punish those who ignore the risks posed by the UK Bribery Act 2010. According to law firm CMS Cameron McKenna, there is concern that […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

My top five headaches for the UK insurance industry

FOR THOSE RUNNING brokers and insurance companies in the UK non-life market, 2012 promises to be a challenging year with reputation topping my list of worries for the industry.

Issues ranging from closure of a Ā£500m tax loophole to how major property exposures can be managed once a decades-old pact to insure buildings at risk of flooding comes to an end; these and more will all vie for directors’ attention alongside the day to day running of businesses typically located at the grudge purchase end of the high street.

With concerns both legislative and market-driven requiring considerable thought, here’s my top five insurance industry headscratchers. […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

Referral fees – cash in while you can

Understandably the insurance industry reacted negatively to the news, but in the end cold, hard cash did the talking some days later. on 31st May, stock market analyst Collins Stewart was bullish about the prospects of FTSE 100 darling Admiral Insurance precisely because of the LSB’s protectionist stance. Referral fees are to continue and Admiral will carry on earning a tidy sum from them; a fact that won’t have gone unnoticed by the many pension funds with holdings in the motor insurer. […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

#BIBA2011: Insurance industry joins social media age

This week’s British Insurance Brokers’ Association conference may be the last of its kind, with the trade body announcing a proposed merger with the Institute of Insurance Brokers. But for me it will be remembered […]

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Legal

Is the rise of LPO now an inevitability?

This is the kind of processing nightmare that corporates have charged their in-house teams to deal with and as the Gazette article suggests, there are firms now that claim to have the infrastructure and wherewithall to manage it profitably at a fraction of the price. […]