End of The Line For Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions?
There is conflicting evidence as to whether the UK Insurance M&A Market is contracting. Certainly it looks like some of the much bigger UK Insurance boys are up for sale! We sent our Insurance Newshound Kris Oldland out to find out who is up for grabs; and just what is going on in the UK Insurance Mergers And Acquisitions Markets? UK Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions: Rumours round up! First up is Insurer Provident, who are looking good for acquisition after having had their long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings upped from stable to positive and affirmed at BB+ by ratings agency Standard & Poor
Learn more...Ooh Yes! Churchill The Car Insurance Dog Soft Toy Outsells The Meerkat
The holding company of Churchill Insurance, RBS, whose future remains in doubt, must be pleased as punch to learn that sales of the Churchill nodding dog soft toy were ten percent higher than those of rival car insurance comparison website Compare the Market over the christmas period, according to figures released today from the Association of British Toy Distributors. Buy The Churchill Dog Before they all go barking mad down at Churchill, it should be pointed out that the figures relate to sales of the bulldog stuffed toy against those of Alexsandr Orlov the Compare The Meerkat main character. Alexsandr Meerkat was only available through Harrods and supplies were restricted according to Benja Katya who runs the online Meerkat Toy Store in partnership with Amazon.
Learn more...Do I Have to Disclose Private Information if I Have a Claim?
If I had to cancel my trip, will your trip cancellation plans give me back all the money I’d lose for my airfare, cruise, excursions & hotel costs with no questions asked? I guard my privacy and I won’t disclose personal information
Learn more...Insurance Marketing : NewTools For A Modern World
When the World Wide Web opened up the Internet for everybody nearly twenty years ago, one of the phrases that was bandied about at the time was that this new ‘Information Superhighway’ would be a level playing field where small could shout as loud as large. This caused an initial flurry of activity by prescient insurance companies and a few savvy brokers, who bit the bullet and jumped into Internet Insurance transactional business, prior to the dot-com boom.
Learn more...Euro On The Point Of Collapse – Victim Of A Trojan Horse?
If the Franco-German alliance fails to bail out the Greek debt then the Euro will most certainly collapse! Mass Devaluation. Cheap Holidays in the Sun! Suddenly Europe will not be worth half as much as it was! Worse still for the Euro Bankers is the fact that the amount of Greek debt appears unquantifiable due to some smart bookeeping by the previous conservative government who were incumbent for most of the credit crunch and the subsequent recession
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