Latest Europe Headlines
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Supreme Court to Hear Eurail Case on Foreign Entity Liability
Oct 5 2015 // The new Supreme Court term will include high-level discussions of affirmative action, free association and religious liberty. But the first Monday in October is starting with a suit about a Eurail pass. Specifically, the...
FERMA Launches 1st Professional Certification for European Risk Managers
Oct 5 2015 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has formally launched its program of European Certification for professional risk managers. It is the first such designation and is designed to reinforce the...
Insurers Respond Slowly to Growing Demand for Cyber Insurance: Timetric Report
Oct 5 2015 // The cyber risk insurance market is experiencing rapid development, with the size of global gross written premiums growing from US$850 million in 2012 to an estimated US$2.5 billion in 2014, according to a new report by...
Competition, Customer Demand Worry Global SMEs but Optimism Rises: Zurich
Oct 2 2015 // Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) around the world are increasingly concerned about the impact of competition on margins and lack of consumer demand, according to Zurich Insurance Group’s third annual global...
Watchdog Says Corporations Say One Thing, Do Another on Climate Change
Oct 1 2015 // It’s all a masquerade. The business world has not embraced action on climate change as statements from some corporations seem to indicate. So says a new watchdog group out of London. Nonprofit InfluenceMap late last...
EU to Ease Capital Regulations for Banks & Insurers to Revive Growth
Sep 30 2015 // The European Union will ease capital rules it has imposed on banks and insurers since the financial crisis to help markets raise more funds for reviving sluggish economic growth. The bloc’s financial services chief,...
A.M. Best: European Insurers Continue Emerging Markets’ Growth – with Caution
Sep 30 2015 // In an attempt to deploy excess capital, some major European insurers have developed overseas operations over the past several years but are now taking a more cautious approach, as not all overseas strategies have proven...
Volkswagen to Recall 11 Million Vehicles for Diesel Fix
Sep 29 2015 // Volkswagen announced plans on Tuesday to refit up to 11 million vehicles and overhaul its namesake brand to try to move on from the scandal over its cheating on diesel emissions tests. New Chief Executive Matthias Mueller...
Europe’s Rich Families – Such as EXOR’s Agnellis – Turn Dealmakers
Sep 29 2015 // John Elkann, the leader of Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family, has a way of preparing his relatives for a big takeover battle that you won’t see at your everyday company. In June, he gathered two branches of...
How Regulators Caught Volkswagen’s Diesel Deception
Sep 25 2015 // The confession of cheating that’s embroiled Volkswagen AG in one of the biggest scandals in auto industry history came on a cool California morning, on the sidelines of an academic conference focused on green...
Zurich Joins CityMobil2 to Test Automated Self-driving Buses in Europe
Sep 25 2015 // Zurich Insurance Group announced that it has been selected as the insurance associate to CityMobil2, an EU-funded research project that is staging tests of automated road transport systems with self-driving buses across...
EU Supervisors Face ‘Binding Mediation’ on Simple ABS Disagreements
Sep 24 2015 // National authorities in the European Union will have to submit to binding arbitration if they can’t decide whether to apply the bloc’s new rules on simple securitizations to a transaction, a European Commission...
ACE Names Littooij European Product Champion, Small Marine Commercial
Sep 22 2015 // ACE Group announced the appointment of Paul Littooij, currently marine manager for ACE in Benelux, to the additional role of European product champion, Small Marine Commercial, as it continues to expand its team to better...
EU Weighs Solvency II Capital Relief for Insurers’ Investments in Infrastructure
Sep 21 2015 // The European Union is preparing reduced capital requirements for insurers in a bid to spur investment in long-term infrastructure projects. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is considering amending...
Intellectual Property News: KitKat, Williams Sonoma, Whole Foods, Skechers, Segway, GoDaddy, Apple
Sep 18 2015 // This wrap-up of recent intellectual property cases covers chocolate bar shapes, cookware designs, sneaker similarities, Korean TV copyright device, Quizno’s commercials, personal transporter technology, Oscar award...
National Promises to Cut Carbon Emissions Will Not Be Enough: United Nations
Sep 17 2015 // National promises to cut emissions as part of preparations for a United Nations summit at the end of the year would cap global warming at the unacceptably high level of 3 degrees Celsius, the UN’s climate boss said...
XL Catlin Forms New Leadership Team for Germany
Sep 9 2015 // XL Catlin has announced a new insurance leadership team for Germany. The integration process is now well underway across XL Catlin, with the company maintaining a strong focus on bringing together and retaining its top...
Xuber Survey Finds London Insurance Execs Fear ‘Brexit’
Sep 8 2015 // Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, has published a survey, which concludes that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of insurance executives believe a UK exit from the European Union would be bad for...
Insurers Look to Cyber, M&A Coverage as Prices Decline: Marsh
Sep 7 2015 // Commercial insurance rates continued their global decline in the second quarter of 2015, a trend driven by an abundance of global capacity and a lack of large insured loss activity, Marsh said in its latest Global...
Aon Benfield August Cat Report Highlights Global Droughts, El Niño, Typhoons
Sep 4 2015 // The monthly report for August from Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting catastrophe model development team cites the “severe drought conditions” in the western U.S. as resulting in “economic losses...
