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Financial & markets regulation
Treasury in discussions to speed up Solvency II reforms
...Questions have arisen over the timetable for the Solvency II changes, which were announced in November’s Autumn Statement....
February 10, 2023
Legal & General Group PLC
Legal & General’s new chief promises ‘simpler investment case’
...The company’s Solvency II coverage ratio, the amount of regulatory capital it holds as a percentage of the minimum required, sat at 224 per cent at the end of the year, above consensus estimates of 217 per...
March 6, 2024
FT Live
Global Insurance Summit
Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve
Thursday, 13 JuneLondon, UK
UK insurance industry
UK insurers urge public-private schemes to deploy £100bn green investment
...Ministers have promoted the Solvency II reforms, which ease capital rules and make other changes to EU-inherited regulation, as a key “Brexit dividend”....
February 19, 2024
Watches & Jewellery
British watchmakers stage London fair aimed at collectors
...These include variations of sought-after models by the record-breaking independent watchmaker Roger Smith and award-winning brand Christopher Ward....
January 26, 2024
News updates from December 14: BoE and ECB hold rates steady, ECB’s Lagarde pushes back against rate cuts expectations
Overhaul of insurance rules to unlock €100bn for investment, says EU
...The European parliament announced on Wednesday night that a deal had been reached over changes to the so-called Solvency II capital rules....
December 14, 2023
BT Group Plc
BT Tower sold to US luxury hotel group
...Addleshaw Goddard advised BT, while Herbert Smith Freehills counselled the buyer. Additional reporting by Jonathan Wheatley...
February 21, 2024
FT Live
Evolving retirement strategies in an ever-changing world
What new regulatory developments mean for IFAs
Tuesday, 30 April1 Friday Street, London
ReviewStyle
Knitwear label John Smedley wants to bring manufacturing home
...Catkin roll-neck sweaters; Sean Connery, who wore its blue polo shirt in the 1962 James Bond film Dr No, where he was the first actor to portray the fictional British secret agent; and Queen Elizabeth II...
April 24, 2024
The Big Read
The costly, controversial outsourcing of NHS mental health services
...“The transition to community care has not happened in the way that it needed to happen,” Smith says....
January 8, 2024
HTSI
Horology in the UK
...Christopher Ward celebrates its 20th birthday next year....
November 16, 2023
HTSIHTSI holiday special 2023
Party looks to shine in
...Make-up, Lydia Ward-Smith using Dior. Set design, Clara Metter. Photographer’s assistant, Danny Walker. Stylist’s assistant, Lucia Bustillo. Production, Ellen Miller at Laird and Good Company...
November 10, 2023
UK financial regulation
Bank of England unveils post-Brexit overhaul of insurers’ rules
...He said the implementation timeline “would see the UK introducing its Solvency II reforms ahead of the parallel process in the EU”....
June 29, 2023
The Big Read
The pension deal bonanza remaking the UK’s retirement sector
...asks Andrew Ward, who leads the risk transfer team at pensions consultancy Mercer....
July 9, 2023
Live news updates from June 22: Titan submersible passengers die in implosion, BoE lifts interest rate to 5%
UK unveils timetable for post-Brexit shake-up of insurance rules
...was “considering options to enable reforms to the matching adjustment”, intended to liberalise investments, to come into force by the end of June 2024, and the rest of post-Brexit changes to the Solvency II...
June 22, 2023
Live news updates from March 6: Taiwan’s president to visit US, Tesla enacts second price cut of 2023
Bank of England warns that Solvency II changes increase risk of insurer failure
...The Bank of England has told MPs that the government’s flagship changes to the Solvency II insurance rules will mean a “relative increase in the probability of failure of around 20 per cent”, underlining...
March 6, 2023
News in-depthMergers & Acquisitions
Bob Diamond and Rich Ricci are banking on a City revival
...Letter in response to this report:Panmure Gordon’s Liberum deal is puzzling / From Tony Smith, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, UK...
January 17, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
InterviewVisual Arts
Vivien Duffield: ‘At Tate we never got the garden right’
...The Clore Garden will be designed by landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith, in collaboration with architects Feilden Fowles and the Royal Horticultural Society....
April 13, 2024
News in-depthMiddle East
Houthis blow open murky world of ship nationality
...In the latest attack, on Monday, the Houthis fired two missiles at the MSC Sky II, a container ship operated by Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s biggest container shipping line....
March 5, 2024
Letter
Letter: Ghana’s cathedral — design in haste, repent at leisure
...Ciara Malins-Smith London SW4, UK...
May 19, 2023
AstraZeneca PLC
AstraZeneca chair says it is paying CEO enough to ward off US rivals
...In 2019, Namal Nawana, an Australian who had worked in the US, quit as chief executive of Smith & Nephew because the UK medical devices company could not meet his pay demands....
May 4, 2023
Pension Protection Fund
Employers call for changes to UK pension lifeboat levy
...Charles Smith, chair of Shoe Zone, the Aim-listed high street retailer, which has 1,500 employees, called for changes to the rules that limit the flexibility the PPF has to vary the levy every year....
September 19, 2023
UK financial regulation
PRA head tells UK insurers it is time to move on after Solvency II debate
...He also poked fun at the government’s brand for Solvency II — Solvency UK, or “SUK”....
February 20, 2023
US banks
FDIC to hit biggest US banks with $16bn bill for SVB clean-up
...The special assessment comes just two months after the FDIC, the Federal Reserve and Treasury department were forced to step in to ward off a more pronounced bout of banking-sector contagion after SVB and...
May 11, 2023
Labour Party UK
Labour says no longer ‘sneering at business’ and unveils 10 City advisers
...Additional reporting by Ian Smith...
December 7, 2023
Nuclear energy
Will Britons accept burying nuclear waste in their backyard?
...The UK has been generating nuclear waste since the 1940s, with the world’s first full-scale commercial power station, Calder Hall, opened in Seascale, Cumbria, by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956....
September 28, 2023
The Henry Mance Interview
Anti-monarchist Graham Smith: The British royals are ‘tax-funded Kardashians’
...Elizabeth II, the monarch whom even republicans admired, has passed....
June 5, 2023

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