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Butterfield Trust, part of the Butterfield Group, has been named trust company of the year by the Society of Trust and Estate Practioners (STEP).
“We are honoured that Butterfield Trust has been recognised by our peer-professionals as trust company o...
DATE: Sep 15, 2015
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Back-to-back hurricanes and the closure of the Bermuda Sun newspaper were among factors that impacted the Island’s gross domestic product in 2014.
Bermuda’s GDP fell 0.4 per cent in real terms last year, final estimates show. While still in negative...
DATE: Sep 15, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
A court case in America could open the floodgates for the US Justice Department to demand access to US computer data stored overseas.
But internet giant Microsoft is fighting in a Manhattan court to overturn a search warrant demanding Microsoft relea...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A total of 84,925 shares worth $294,995 traded on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) last week.
During the four-day trading week, shortened for the Labour Day holiday, the Bank of Butterfield saw 62,625 shares move, leaving its price two cents (1.1 per...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda-based ILS Capital is to open a new office in London next month.
The company has also appointed Teresa Gallant as the new chief financial officer and Glenn Clinton, who will head up US property catastrophe underwriting.
ILS capital founder and...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Around 150 life and annuity professionals are set to congregate in Bermuda later this month.
The Bermuda International Long Term Insurers and Reinsurers (BILTIR) is to host its second annual life and annuity conference at the Fairmont Southampton on ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Reinsurance
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Tokio Millennium Re’s Bermuda operations will be led by Kathleen Faries from the start of next year.
The news came with the announcement that the firm had set up a new Capital Solutions unit, based on the Island.
Edwin Jordan will lead the new unit a...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Reinsurance
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Insurance group BF&M yesterday posted profits of $11.4 million for the first six months of the year.
The figure is more than $6 million down on the same period last year.
But BF&M president and CEO John Wight said: “Financial results in the first hal...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A total of 10,810 shares, worth nearly $20,058, traded on The Royal Gazette/BSX Index.
The Bank of Butterfield closed the day one cent up (0.6 per cent) at $1.80, after 10,510 of its shares were traded.
Insurance firm Argus fell 20 cents (5 per cent)...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Insurer Amlin has been placed under review by rating agency AM Best in the wake of this week’s announced agreement to be acquired by Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company in a $5.3 billion deal.
Amlin operates in the Lloyd’s of London market and ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil