Former Italian Cabinet Minister Lucio Stanca has been re-appointed to PartnerRe's board of directors.

Mr. Stanca previously served on PartnerRe's Board from May 12, 1998 until January, 2005. His resignation was the result of an Italian law that imposed restrictions on cabinet members of the national Government from being Board Members of any commercial enterprise.

Mr. Stanca, a former vice-president of IBM, lost his post as Minister for Innovation and Technology when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government was defeated earlier this year.

PartnerRe chairman, John Rollwagen said: "His prior knowledge of PartnerRe and his recentexperiences will be valuable assets to the Board and we look forward to working together again."

Robert Glauber has returned to the board of directors of XL Capital.

Mr. Glauber served on the XL board from 1998 to May 2005, but stepped down to "focus on other business commitments," said a company bulletin on Friday.

He most recently served as the CEO of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. from November 2000 to August 2006 and, in addition, as chairman from September, 2001 to August, 2006.

Mr. Glauber, who is a director of Moody's Corporation and Freddie Mac, has also served on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a number of Dreyfus mutual funds and the Investment Company Institute.

From 1989 to 1992, he served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Finance and, prior to that, was a professor of finance at the Harvard Business School.

After leaving the Treasury, he was a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before joining NASD (National Association Of Securities Association. He is now a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Law School.

BF&M Ltd. has appointed Lynda Davidson Leader as corporate secretary of the company. Ms Leader, a chartered accountant, succeeds Michelle Dallas who recently resigned. Her appointment takes effect on October 2.