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...But one government official with direct knowledge of the matter said: “The Treasury is working towards a September fiscal event and will try to cut national insurance by another 2p. That’s the plan.”...
...“If there’s a spill, voters will demand to know why their governments didn’t do more.”...
...Munich Re’s main insurance business Ergo provided about €700mn in loans, while Germany’s fourth largest insurance group R+V lent €500mn, more than half of which is not collateralised, according to the documents...
...Lloyds is two years in to a £4bn, five-year investment plan to diversify its income away from mortgages towards income streams less dependent on interest rate changes including wealth management and insurance...
...The company conducted work to compare listing venues....
...“For companies that have to make investment decisions, that is absolutely toxic.”...
...Under such schemes, governments share losses from natural disasters with the insurance sector, or create structures to pool risk....
...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....
...Ageas has 44,000 employees in 13 countries. Its existing UK operation is the sixth largest in car and home insurance, according to the company....
...The group’s hiring strategy got it into hot water last year when it accepted that it, and certain executive officers, had “engaged in unlawful recruitment” of about 30 employees from reinsurance broker Guy...
...The rising cost of home insurance and motor insurance has exacerbated cost-of-living pressures on households....
...This is a test of the government’s commitment to support financial services. Lloyd’s may not get the attention its near-quarter share of City GDP deserves....
...The US government has said insurance payouts should “ultimately” contribute to the construction costs, but it does not want financing concerns to delay the rebuilding effort....
...“They’ve really been pushing $40 [an hour] and free health insurance.”...
...“The big question is, can the PE firms be a trusted owner of a life insurance company?” said Isabelle Santenac, global insurance leader at consultancy EY....
...The transport companies were so busy moving art, they ran out of trucks.” If Germany wants this art back, “the law should be scrapped,” says Blau....
...Barings won a preliminary injunction against the company and key employees in a North Carolina court last month....
...Earlier this week, Knight Insurance Group, one of more than a handful of companies that make up Hankey’s financial empire, put up a $175mn bond for Donald Trump, an amount the former president had to post...
...In July 2022, the firm secured a €7bn pool to lend to European midmarket companies, the largest fund it has ever raised....
...Monday’s report also called for bodies such as the National Infrastructure Commission, an executive agency that provides advice to the government, to be given a “broader remit and be less at the mercy of...
...The area of private medical insurance that has seen the strongest growth has been in the number of people taking out personal cover, according to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights, a research company...
...But public car insurance would be even harder to design than flood-zone home insurance: how would any government limit the number it covered?...
...First: the insurance sector is continuing to pay large ransoms to hackers, on behalf of companies, even though the governments of countries such as the US and UK have urged them to stop, arguing that this...
...Citizens Advice has previously urged the government and insurers to consider “bold ideas” that can take pressure off cash-strapped households for a financial product it deems an “everyday necessity”....
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