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Bermuda’s real estate firms are to join forces to help provide accommodation for America’s Cup crews and staff.
The industry has got together in a bid to provide a seamless service to the thousands of people expected to descend on Bermuda in the run-...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The agency set up to drum up new business for Bermuda is to target London.
Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) CEO Ross Webber said legal firms and top financial services figures would be invited to a special think-tank next March.
Mr Webber ad...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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International Business
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Internet giants Google could spearhead the transformation of Bermuda into a ‘Silicon Island’ hub for high technology, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
It is believed the global search engine firm, based in California’s Silicon Valley, has been locked in...
DATE: Dec 10, 2014
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International Business
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Insurance firm BF&M forked out more than $10 million on damage claims from a double whammy from hurricanes in October, the firm revealed yesterday.
BF&M CEO John Wight said that the financial impact of Hurricanes Fay and Gonzalo will be mostly record...
DATE: Dec 10, 2014
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Reinsurance
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Major international firms are underprepared and lack confidence in dealing with risks to their reputation, a new survey has revealed.
The survey — carried out by Forbes Insights for global financial services firm Deloitte — showed that more than two-...
DATE: Dec 10, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Financial services firm Deloitte is to host a careers night to encourage students to look at work in the field.
The firm said that it offered careers in the accounting, actuarial, consulting and advisory professions.
Katherine Cupidore, director of t...
DATE: Dec 09, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s professional body for engineering is to host a free competition for students and young professionals.
And the overall winner will get an all-expenses paid trip to compete at the Americas regional final, to be held next June.
The Bermuda Ass...
DATE: Dec 09, 2014
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The insurance market is set to grow to a massive $2 trillion in just over a decade, the chairman of London insurance hub Lloyd’s told a Bermuda conference.
John Nelson said that the market stood at $600 billion at the moment — but economic powerhouse...
DATE: Dec 09, 2014
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Reinsurance
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
An Island recruitment and professional services firm has promoted three Bermudian staff members to full partners.
And Doug Soares, managing director of Hamilton-based Expertise, predicted that better times for Bermuda were around the corner as he sig...
DATE: Dec 09, 2014
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Aspen Insurance Holdings has appointed a new group chief financial officer in the wake of the previous postholder’s departure.
Scott Kirk, who was Aspen’s chief financial officer for the firm’s insurance business, takes over from John Worth, who is l...
DATE: Dec 08, 2014
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Reinsurance
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor