Netherlands News

ING Sells 36 Million Shares, Raises $666 Million

The Netherlands ING Group has sold 36 million shares, about 1.8 percent of the total outstanding, at approximately 18.50 Euros per share, raising around $666 million in additional capital. (The dollar and the Euro are currently of equal value) The …

Aon’s ‘Running to Remember’ Raises Money for 9-11 Victims

Aon Corp. announced that company employees who participated in the October 13 Chicago Marathon and the November 3 New York Marathon to support the Aon Memorial Education Fund had raised over $190,000. “Over 120 runners from the US, Canada, Netherlands …

RMS ESTIMATES WINDSTORM JEAN-ETT CAUSED MAJOR FINANCIAL IMPACT

California-based Risk Management Solutions Inc. (RMS), announced that the windstorm, designated Jeanett, which has hit the U.K., France, and the rest of northern Europe in late October, could cause up to 1 billion Euros ($983 million) in damages. The storm, …

German Broker Becomes inreon’s 100TH Member

inreon, the Internet-based reinsurance trading platform announced that German broker Koenig & Reeker has become its 100th member. The company joins 81 other cedants and brokers from 17 countries across Asia, North America and Europe that have signed membership agreements …

Aegon Q3 Net Drops 28% to $429 Million

Aegon NV, the Netherlands giant insurer and financial services group, beat analysts’ expectations for the third quarter as it recorded a net profit 429 million Euros [the Euro is currently trading at parity with the dollar], a drop of 28 …

RMS Update Shows European Windstorm Damages Climb Upward

Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) has updated its estimate of damages and insured losses from Windstorm Jeanette, originally released on Oct. 30. RMS now estimates that total damages from the storm, which impacted northern Europe on Oct. 27 and 28, …

RMS Estimates Windstorm Jeanett May Cause $983 Million in Total Damages

California-based Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS), announced that the windstorm, designated Jeanett, which has hit the U.K., France, and the rest of northern Europe over the last several days may cause up to 1 billion Euros ($983 million) in damages. …

Eureko Starts Arbitration with Polish Gov’t. Over PZU

The ongoing dispute between Eureko, the Pan-European insurance consortium, and Poland’s Treasury Minister Wieslaw Kaczmarek over the control of Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen (PZU) has been submitted to formal arbitration proceedings before an international tribunal in Stockholm. The conflict, which has …

Ratings Roundup: S&P Lowers Eureko; A.M. Best Lowers Gerling and Trenwick

Standard & Poor’s has lowered its ratings on the Netherlands-based Eureko insurance group to single-‘A’-plus from double-‘A’-minus, while A.M. Best announced that it has lowered its ratings on Gerling-Konzern Globale Ruckversicherung AG (GKG) to B++ (Very Good) from A- (Excellent) …

AEGON Places 350 Million Shares for Sale at €10

The Netherlands insurer and financial services company AEGON N.V. and its largest shareholder Vereniging AEGON (the “Association”) announced the placement of 350 million existing AEGON common shares at an offering price of €10.00 per bearer share and $ 9.71 per …