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A guide aimed at demystifying the process of getting connected to the internet on the Island has been published by the Computer Society of Bermuda (CSB).
The guide offers advice on which service to choose for different categories of internet user — l...
DATE: Jan 30, 2008
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Bermuda-based bond insurer Assured Guaranty is well placed to take advantage of the difficulties of its bigger rivals, a JPMorgan analyst said on Friday.
In a note to clients, Andrew Wessel said Assured had secured seven times its normal monthly shar...
DATE: Jan 28, 2008
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Bermuda-based Ironshore Insurance achieved most of what it hoped for in a successful first year in business, but one of its primary aims remains outstanding — to establish a foothold in the London market.
Ironshore's chief executive officer Robert De...
DATE: Jan 26, 2008
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The Island's biggest insurance brokerage firm Marsh will send representatives into the Island's public and private schools over the next two months to spread the word that there are huge opportunities for young Bermudians interested in becoming broke...
DATE: Jan 25, 2008
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Global healthcare products giant Covidien yesterday officially opened its new Front Street offices and marked the occasion by giving a $20,000 cheque to a Bermuda charity.
The Bermuda-domiciled company was formed last June after being part of industr...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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Bermuda's variable-rate mortgage holders got a boost yesterday when three of the Island's biggest lenders announced a a cut in their borrowing rates.
Butterfield Bank was the first to announce a 0.25-percent cut in its base rate.
HSBC Bank of Bermuda...
DATE: Jan 23, 2008
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Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group is building up its interests in online insurance.
The company, which owns Esurance, announced yesterday that it had paid $30 million for a 42 percent stake in Answer Financial Inc.'s outstanding debt and ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2008
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Shares in Bermuda-based Security Capital Assurance Ltd. shot up 30 percent yesterday on hopes that regulators will provide support to the struggling bond insurance industry by attracting new capital.
At the close of trading, SCA shares had climbed 50...
DATE: Jan 23, 2008
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Former Bermuda Police Service Superintendent Sinclair White was yesterday named as the chairman of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), the latest addition to the Island's armoury in the war on money laundering.
And Government has also hired form...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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The shares of Bermuda insurer and reinsurer XL Capital Ltd. plunged to their lowest level in almost eight years on Friday, after shedding 22 percent of their value in the space of two days.
But having dipped to $39.52 by the time the markets closed o...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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