Articles by Katherine Chiglinsky and Alex Barinka

AXA Raises $2.75 Billion in Year’s Biggest IPO

U.S. initial public offerings have the seismic changes in the insurance industry to thank for 2018’s biggest share sale. Axa Equitable Holdings Inc. sold 137.25 million shares at $20 each on Wednesday to raise $2.75 billion. That’s well short of …

Ironshore Files for IPO in U.S. After A.M. Best Review of Parent Firm Fosun

Ironshore Inc., the insurer purchased by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International Ltd. last year, filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. after a ratings firm cited concerns about the parent firm’s financial strength. The company filed with an initial …

Oaktree Capital & Egan Cut Ties After Failure to Raise Funds to Form a Reinsurer

Bill Egan, the former Bank of America Corp. banker who was working with Oaktree Capital Group LLC to start a reinsurance venture, has cut ties with the asset manager, according to people familiar with the matter. His exit follows a …

IBM, Apple Release 10 Apps for Insurance, Banks, Retail, Other Businesses

Five months after Apple Inc.’s partnership with International Business Machines Corp. was announced, the companies are unveiling the initial fruits of the deal: 10 applications made for governments and businesses. The apps, including tools that can help pilots better utilize …

How IBM Handles Age Disclosure, Employee Privacy, Job Bias Claims

For at least a decade, International Business Machines Corp. gave fired employees information detailing a severance package that asked them to waive age- discrimination claims and also included a page listing the job titles and ages of workers being let …

‘Jeopardy’ Champ Watson Getting Own Division at IBM

International Business Machines Corp. is turning Watson, the technology that triumphed over human “Jeopardy!” contestants, into a separate division to help the computing-services giant return to growth. More than $1 billion will be invested in the IBM Watson Group, including …