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Island jurisdictions like Bermuda should grab public-private investment opportunities and worry less about risk and the small print in contracts.
The view came in a report by professional services firm KPMG into infrastructure in island regions.
The ...
DATE: May 17, 2016
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Top names in the insurance industry are to team up with world bodies to boost climate resilience and sustainable growth.
Insurance Development Forum chairman Stephen Catlin has announced the appointment of a 14-strong steering committee of CEOs desig...
DATE: May 17, 2016
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Reinsurance
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A new-look menu with a Mexican flavour has been launched at restaurant Tribe Road Kitchen, on Reid Street.
Co-owner Russell Petty said: “We’ve changed the whole theme of things — it’s a new direction.
“We’ve pretty much gone full Mexican.”
Mr Petty e...
DATE: May 17, 2016
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Local Business
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s laws are to be beefed up to clamp down on bribery and corruption.
A special committee set up to recommend changes in the law last week published an information paper to keep the country in line with international standards.
And new bribery ...
DATE: May 16, 2016
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Financial services firm Estera last night celebrated its independence with a party at the Bermuda National Gallery in Hamilton.
But the company — which was Appleby Fiduciary Services until a management buyout at the start of the year — said it would ...
DATE: May 13, 2016
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International Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, yesterday admitted some Overseas Territories are ahead of the UK in financial regulation.
And Finance Minister Bob Richards said he had no doubt Mr Cameron meant Bermuda.
Mr Richards, who attended the UK’s a...
DATE: May 13, 2016
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda recorded a fifth successive quarter of economic growth in the last three months of 2015.
Quarterly gross domestic product figures released by the Department of Statistics today showed that GDP was $1.4 billion in the fourth quarter of last ye...
DATE: May 13, 2016
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Economy
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A Bermudian expert in insurance is to speak at a major conference in New York next week.
Michael Coles, the chief innovation officer at Blue Marble Microinsurance, will discuss new ideas shaking up the insurance industry in the keynote address to glo...
DATE: May 12, 2016
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Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
HSBC Bermuda is backing green energy with a new loans scheme.
The bank said that its new Green Loan scheme was a simple and affordable way for customers to invest in solar energy and energy-saving products.
The deal offers 100 per cent financing, HSB...
DATE: May 12, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Hamilton Insurance Group has opened up new offices in London to boost its presence in the Lloyd’s of London market.
And yesterday Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, joined Brian Duperreault, Hamilton’s chairman and chief executive officer, and De...
DATE: May 12, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor