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Bermuda-based Igility Group has won the IBM agency licence in the Cayman Islands.
It has partnered with a Caymanian entity to form CDS Agencies Ltd. and is responsible for managing all aspects of the business.
Paul Gallagher has been named sales and ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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Government is set to "redefine its relationship" with companies that redomicile to the Island from the US to slash their US tax bill, Premier Ewart Brown said.
Companies including industrial giants Ingersoll-Rand and Cooper Industries have relocated ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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Relations between Bermuda and the US are on a solid footing, said Premier Ewart Brown and US Consul General Gregory Slayton in a joint interview this week.
In a wide-ranging conversation at Camden, the two men touched on issues of last week's bilater...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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Reinsurance companies may have a harder time recapitalising than they have done in the past, if the industry has to pay out heavily for a major catastrophe this year.
That was one of the conclusions of a report by global brokers Willis Group, which s...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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The Fairmont Southampton resort enjoyed its second successive record year in 2007 — and its marketing team has won an global award from the global hotel group to mark the achievement.
Revenue for the South Shore hotel soared by $11 million in 2007 co...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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Bermuda-based commercial insurer XL Capital Ltd. saw its share price sink to its lowest level in more than 13 years after the outlook on its claims-paying ability was lowered to "negative" by Fitch Ratings yesterday.
The ratings firm expressed concer...
DATE: Jul 01, 2008
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Like many executives of Bermuda's global reinsurers, Flagstone Re chairman Mark Byrne's job often involves flying to far-flung corners of the globe in a private jet.
Unlike most executives, however, Mr. Byrne often pilots the plane himself.
A self-co...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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The sub-prime mortgage crisis still has about half its course to run, according to an executive director of investment bank Morgan Stanley.
Speaking at the Bermuda Captive Conference yesterday, Christopher Rasmussen warned that the wave of payment de...
DATE: Jun 20, 2008
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A Hamilton store is claiming to be the first in Bermuda to be offering rental movies on the Blu-ray Disc format.
Wilmont Simmons, co-owner of Double W Home Entertainment on Parliament Street, said the store stocked about 100 titles so far in the high...
DATE: Jun 19, 2008
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Bermuda will be in a "socially dangerous space" if Bermudians believe they are not getting a fair careers opportunities in the high-paying insurance industry, Premier Ewart Brown told delegates at the Bermuda Captive Conference yesterday.
Dr. Brown, ...
DATE: Jun 18, 2008
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