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Five entrepreneurs are being offered the chance of an all expenses paid trip to London in a competition sponsored by British Airways in conjunction with the Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation (BSBDC) and the Economic Empowerment Zone (EEZ...
DATE: Aug 25, 2010
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The impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the tourism industry has prompted Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore to offer better protection against such events to the sector.
Ironshore Environmental has expanded its suite of asset-class specific SPILL...
DATE: Aug 25, 2010
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HSBC Bermuda mortgage holders face higher repayments after the bank announced yesterday it would increase its lending rate by 0.25 percent next month.
The increase, which becomes effective on September 1, takes HSBC's base lending rate for Bermuda do...
DATE: Aug 25, 2010
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The impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the tourism industry has prompted Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore to offer better protection against such events to the sector.
Ironshore Environmental has expanded its suite of asset-class specific SPILL...
DATE: Aug 24, 2010
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Bermuda-based specialty re/insurer Hiscox Ltd. saw its profits plunge by nearly a third in the first half of the year, on heavy catastrophe claims.
Hiscox, which is domiciled on the Island and also has a significant underwriting platform here, posted...
DATE: Aug 24, 2010
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Insurer, pension provider and investment company BF&M Ltd.'s insurance operating companies have seen their financial strength rating affirmed at A (excellent) by rating agency AM Best Co.
But the New Jersey-based agency has expressed some concern at ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2010
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Hedge fund manager Paolo Pellegrini — whose PSQR Capital Management has an office in Bermuda and who helped Paulson & Co. to make $3 billion out of the bets on the US housing crash — is to return money to investors in his fund by next month.
The PSQR...
DATE: Aug 23, 2010
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Bermuda-based Catlin Group has seen the financial strength ratings of its operating subsidiaries affirmed at A by ratings agency AM Best Co.
The New Jersey-based ratings agency said in its ratings commentary that the group's capitalisation is expecte...
DATE: Aug 23, 2010
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John Oros has resigned as executive chairman of Bermuda-based run-off specialist Enstar Group Ltd., to be replaced by the company's chief executive officer Dominic Silvester.
Mr. Oros will also step down from the company's board of directors to assum...
DATE: Aug 23, 2010
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Butterfield Bank chief executive officer Brad Kopp says the bank has bolstered its risk management structure to try to ensure there can be no repeat of the investment meltdown that brought the bank close to failure.
In an interview appearing in a spe...
DATE: Aug 13, 2010
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