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...“Capacity is still likely to be restricted due to global [catastrophe] losses continuing at record levels,” Adam Garrard, head of corporate risk and broking at Willis Towers Watson, one of the world’s biggest...
...One expert who thinks it will is Lloyd Minor, dean of Stanford Medical School, who argues that recent advances in AI will enable us to do what Watson’s creators envisaged....
...Managing director Jack Watson sold £1.1mn of shares last week. Similarly, non-executive director Mike Phillips sold £294,000 worth....
...AGM and Q1 trading statement, CME Group Q1, Eni Q1, Ford Motor Company Q1, General Dynamics Q1, Hasbro Q1, Heathrow Q1, Heineken Q1 trading update, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Q1, IBM Q1, Interpublic Q1, Lloyds...
...Co-founders “J” and “T” turned out to be Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, originally pals from a west London public school....
...Horta-Osório, best known in the UK for his time as chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, is likely to bring some high-level connections in Portugal to the bid....
...Nobel Q3, Alfa-Laval Q3, Asos FY, Boeing Q3, Carrefour Q3, Cazoo Q3, Chubb Q3, Dassault Systèmes Q3, Deutsche Bank Q3, Fresnillo Q3 production report, Heineken Q3, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Q3, IBM Q3, Lloyds...
...“Enabling the transition, I think, is a more productive outcome for society than shutting off the lights,” Carl Hess, chief executive of major insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson, said last year....
...British American Tobacco Q2, Carrefour Q2, Chubb Q2, Coca-Cola Company Q2, Danone H1, Deutsche Bank H1, eBay Q2, Enel H1, Equinor Q2, GSK Q2, Heathrow H1, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Q2, Just Eat Takeaway H1, Lloyds...
...In a subsequent MP hearing to dissect what went wrong, FCA interim chair Richard Lloyd pointed to the existence of a “gap in regulation” linked to investment consultants....
...Defence secretary Lloyd Austin echoed Watson’s assessment and said that US experts are on the ground helping with the investigation....
...Angus Duncan, a D&O specialist at insurance broker Willis Towers Watson, said insurers were asking for more information about clients’ climate policies, and even discussing policy “enhancements” — amendment...
...Since the 1960s, the UK clearing market has been dominated by groups that went on to develop into Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest....
...“People won’t return to the room unless the decision makers are in the room,” said Alastair Swift, head of global lines of business for risk and broking at Willis Towers Watson....
...Lloyds Pharmacy is selling a pack of five tests online for £9.49....
...Aon and Willis Towers Watson have abandoned a $30bn tie-up that would have created the world’s biggest insurance broker after the US government sued to block the merger....
...In November, the Lloyd’s Market Association, a body that represents underwriters in London’s specialist insurance market, tried to address the uncertainty by publishing some model clauses for these exclusions...
...The biggest deals included Marsh’s acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson for £4.3bn in 2018 while Willis combined with Towers Watson in an $18bn deal in 2015....
...Helen Watson, chief executive of UK wealth management at Rothschild, says: “One of the reasons we see industry consolidation is that rising costs make it more cost effective to be bigger.”...
...It’s debatable whether this is a “natural extension” to the bank’s business, as Lloyds has suggested....
...Consultants Willis Towers Watson’s latest Global Pension Asset Study shows that pension funds’ asset allocation to private assets including private equity, real estate and infrastructure has gone from seven...
...Willis Towers Watson has overhauled its board following the collapse of its $30bn merger with Aon....
...Juan Colombas, who served in risk roles at Lloyds Banking Group and Santander, will also join the board....
...The departures come as Credit Suisse’s new chair, former Lloyds chief executive António Horta-Osório, has promised sweeping changes....
...And last week, Moody’s described Lloyds Banking Group’s programme to promote black employees as “credit positive”, marking the first time a rating agency has explicitly linked an assessment to an ethnic...
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