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Don’t be surprised if you see your boss rolling around on the grass inside an inflatable orb this April, because there’s a good chance you might be doing the same thing.
That’s the aim of Marquel Waldron, the man behind the Xtreme Sports Games, which...
DATE: Jan 08, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Information technology is advancing at such a rate that keeping up with it is one of the biggest challenges faced by many companies and organisations.
Helping them to do so is Bermuda’s CCS Group, which provides an extensive range of IT services and...
DATE: Jan 07, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
The oil price crash is not proving to be an unmitigated disaster for all sections of the oil service industry.
On the contrary, for ship operators and owners it is proving to be a lucrative time, and things are looking rosy for at least another year....
DATE: Jan 06, 2016
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Even with the arrival of January renewals there seems to be no end in sight to the soft market conditions that reinsurers have endured since 2012.
In a blunt assessment, Willis Re has concluded that hopeful forecasts for a “softening in the softening...
DATE: Jan 05, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Climate change could put Bermuda at risk of greater economic damage and dent its sovereign credit rating more than many countries and islands.
That is the finding of a speculative report by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.
Using direct damage data...
DATE: Jan 04, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
A sizeable number of Bermuda insurers and reinsurers have opened offices in the Dubai International Financial Centre in the United Arab Emirates.
This month a further three Bermuda-based companies joined the list; Axis, Partner Re and Qatar Re.
The ...
DATE: Dec 30, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
The financial services industry in Bermuda had foreign portfolio holdings of more than half-a-trillion dollars last year. At $516 billion, that was up 16 per cent on 2013.
While the Island does not feature in the world’s top ten places with the large...
DATE: Dec 24, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Clarien Bank will not increase its Bermuda dollar base lending rate in the wake of the US Federal Reserve yesterday announcing it was raising interest rates by 0.25 per cent.
The bank said it will “continue to monitor changes in the global interest r...
DATE: Dec 17, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Bermuda-based Qatar Reinsurance Company has been granted a licence to operate a branch office from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in the United Arab Emirates.
The approval was given by the Dubai Financial Services Authority and becam...
DATE: Dec 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
You might not expect to find freshly fired brick oven pizza for sale at a gas station, but that is just one of the delights on offer at the newly opened Gold Coast Express, North Shore.
The food concession is located inside Rubis Terceira’s gas stati...
DATE: Dec 02, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil