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The new owners of Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. yesterday announced an agreement to buy First Bermuda Group Ltd.
Permanent Investments Ltd. (PIL), which acquired a 54 percent controlling interest in BCB earlier this month, announced the deal yesterday...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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A group of leading London insurance executives has proposed a set of tax policy changes that it believes could tempt Bermuda companies to move to the UK.
The London 100, a group of executives and chairmen brought together by industry newsletter Insur...
DATE: Apr 19, 2010
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The first three months of 2010 will likely turn out to be the most expensive first quarter in history for natural disaster reinsurance claims, according to global reinsurance broker Willis Re.
In a report entitled "Calm Amid Calamity", released last ...
DATE: Apr 05, 2010
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Bermuda-based re/insurer Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings has invested $12 million into the LeapFrog "micro-insurance" fund which aims to provide insurance to some of the world's poorest people.
LeapFrog, whose aim is to provide quality insurance to 25...
DATE: Mar 30, 2010
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US lawmaker Richard Neal yesterday held a meeting of Congressional colleagues and US insurance executives to muster support for a US tax measure that could hit the bottom lines of Bermuda re/insurers.
Rep. Neal's meeting yesterday, according to TheHi...
DATE: Mar 25, 2010
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What started out as a project to raise awareness of Bermuda re/insurer Catlin Group as a global brand has ended up being a ground-breaking — or more literally ice-breaking — scientific project.
For Catlin's chief executive Stephen Catlin, the Catlin ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2010
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The World Insurance Forum will be broadcast live via the Internet today and tomorrow.
The two-day conference, which features an array of industry leaders, gets under way at Tucker's Point Hotel this morning.
Panels of CEOs will discuss hot industry t...
DATE: Mar 15, 2010
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Payroll tax is to rise two percent to 16 percent, Finance Minister Paula Cox announced in her Budget statement this morning.
Government has also raised its debt ceiling by 25 percent to $1.25 billion, following last year’s 82 percent rise.
The rate o...
DATE: Feb 26, 2010
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The World Insurance Forum (WIF) is coming back to Bermuda with a brand new format and a host of international industry leaders signed up for its discussion panels.
After the eighth conference was held in Dubai in 2008 — the first time it had been sta...
DATE: Feb 23, 2010
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Only five students have applied for the 12 places on offer in an internship programme that offers an insight into the international insurance industry in Bermuda, London or Chicago.
For the second successive year the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2010
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