All People & Opinion articles – Page 2
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April Big Question - What does the future hold for Etrading?
With the Insurance Times eTrading Survey still open until Friday 12 April, we ask the experts what they think lies ahead for the world of eTrading
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NIG to focus on service for brokers - MD Sonya Bryson
New NIG managing director Sonya Bryson speaks to Insurance Times about the insurer’s focus with brokers this year
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Marsh in talks with £176m Jelf on possible bid
Jelf will listen to offers at 210p, according to sources
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Matthew Donaldson: Challenging the market
Not content with a 40% share of the UK aggregator market with Comparethemarket, the group chief executive of BGL has big plans to shake up the life insurance market and take the comparison model international
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Briefing: FCA and broker collaboration: a breakthrough?
There are few people in the insurance industry who can command the attention of the country’s top insurance brokers like the FCA’s head of general insurance and protection Simon Green
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Willis UK arm faces uphill struggle
Willis has plans to turn itself around after falling UK revenues
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Briefing: RSA bid unlikely, but Aviva is one to watch
This is an opinion of Insurance Times Editor Saxon EastSo is there going to be a major bid for RSA from the likes of Zurich or Generali? City rumours and a rising share price last week pointed to the affirmative. Yet a bid for RSA appears ...
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Fighting fraud: what's being done
Insurance Times’s Fraud Charter focused on the regulation of private investigators and the role that professional enablers and internal staff have to play in facilitating and fighting fraud
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Claims: take nothing for granted
Motor insurers pricing aggressively in anticipation of falling claims costs risk getting caught out
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‘Who will be the super consolidator?’
The time is ripe for a merger between the top consolidator brokers. There are significant obstacles, but such a move makes sense
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'Geddes must convince the City that DLG is spot on with its reserving'
The shake up at NIG is a step forward for parent Direct Line Group as it chases an improved COR.
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Arron Banks, Brightside
‘A ham sandwich should be able to run our company at the moment’
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IT interviews: Mike Kenney
‘The police were never involved. It was just an old-fashioned cock-up at the end of the day’
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Gabriel Bernardino, Eiopa
The chairman of the new Eiopa says that while delays are frustrating, he is confident Solvency II will lead to higher standards worldwide
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IT interviews: Joe Henderson
‘There’s not a chance of us borrowing 10 million quid to go and buy somebody’
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IT Interviews: Jack Straw MP
‘Insurers are not the villains of the piece, but they have been sucked into a disreputable system’
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IT Interviews: Vern Chalfant, McLarens Young International
‘If you’ve got the best people on the street, the clients will follow’
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Natalie Ceeney, Financial Ombudsman Service
‘I’ve never ducked a challenge, and that’s what attracted me to the FOS: PPI needed sorting’
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Interview: Matthew Fosh, Novae
‘When I walked into Novae, it was a troubled, miserable place. One way of beating that was with humour’
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Interview: Michael Casella, Chubb
'I need customers who recognise that I need to make money, or I won’t be in business with them’