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Key events in the history of Quanta Capital Holdings:
Formed in September, 2003 through a private offering. Founder Tobey Russ, with the help of Arlington, Virginia investment bank Friedman Billings Ramsey, tapped institutional investors for $550 mi...
DATE: May 29, 2006
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After more than six months of searching for a way to stay afloat, Quanta Capital Holdings is to close all but two of its units to new business.
Quanta will put into run-off Bermuda, US and European units that sold speciality types of insurance and re...
DATE: May 29, 2006
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Alea Group Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based company now closed to new business, has announced the sale of Alea North America Specialty Insurance Company to Insurance Corporation of Hannover, a member company of Praetorian Financial Group, Inc.
Praetori...
DATE: May 29, 2006
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An organisation representing Bermuda's biggest insurers has recruited Leila Madeiros, former deputy director of policy research and communications at the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
Mrs. Madeiros joined the the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Rei...
DATE: May 29, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index gained 1.69 points yesterday to close at 4,430.06.
On a quiet day of trading BF&M made the only advance as it rose 15 cents to close at $18.75 on volume of 1,000 shares.
The only other activity on the Ex...
DATE: May 27, 2006
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e are sitting in a traffic jam on Las Vegas Boulevard. Yes, hypocrites all, rumour has it that Las Vegas is the number one destination for thousands of Bermudians.
We are surrounded by massive pickup trucks and SUV?s including a three-quarter size Hu...
DATE: May 27, 2006
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First off, Skype.
Some weeks ago, I wrote that the Government of Bermuda had made Skype illegal. Skype is a free telephone service provided through the Internet, using a mechanism called Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
I was wrong. My assu...
DATE: May 27, 2006
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The Staff Benevolent Fund of Conyers Dill & Pearman has given its support to the Bermuda Autism Support & Education Society (BASE) by donating $3,000 to the charity.
Tricia Crow, president of BASE, on accepting the funds said: "On behalf of many grat...
DATE: May 26, 2006
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has established an office in Dubai to serve the Middle East, the Caspian states and the Indian Subcontinent.
The firm will operate from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) with the official opening scheduled for July.
The Dubai office is ...
DATE: May 26, 2006
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LONDON (AP) ? Cable & Wireless Group Plc, Britain's second-largest telecommunications company, reported a sizeable drop in annual earnings yesterday as price declines and depreciation costs eroded profitability.
The company said that net income fell ...
DATE: May 26, 2006
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