• April 23 2025
  EU financial regulation

  The trouble with Danish, squared

  Navigating a bancassurance accounting loophole

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• April 17 2025
  UnitedHealth Group Inc

  UnitedHealth shares plunge 22% after insurer slashes profit forecast

  US company says it ‘did not perform to expectations’ in first quarter

  
• April 17 2025
  Serious Fraud Office UK

  SFO charges Lloyd’s insurance broker over Ecuador bribery allegations

  United Insurance Brokers Limited charged with failure to prevent bribes being paid to officials

  
• April 14 2025
  Ageas SA/NV

  Belgian insurer Ageas agrees £1.3bn deal for UK’s Esure

  Acquisition will expand group’s motor and home insurance business

  
• April 14 2025
  UK insurance industry

  RSA brand to disappear from UK insurance sector

  Change comes four years after Intact Financial Corporation paid £3bn to take over its British and Canadian operations

  
• April 10 2025
  John Gapper

  Lloyd’s of London is Britain’s strangest success

  The inimitable insurance market has to ensure it remains attractive in the face of global competition

  
• April 9 2025
  Special Report

  FT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

  The 2025 ranking of fast growing companies in the Asia-Pacific region. Including: the Philippines looks beyond call centres, India’s Meesho taps WhatsApp, extending EV battery life, and cameras to keep drivers’ eyes on the road

  
• April 9 2025
  Saga Plc

  Saga avoids cash crunch as it forecasts lower profit

  The over-50s travel and insurance specialist reported improved underlying profit for 2024

  
• April 1 2025
  Luigi Mangione

  US to seek death penalty for Mangione in UnitedHealthcare killing

  Case involving murder of Brian Thompson has unleashed fraught debates over country’s for-profit healthcare

  
• April 1 2025
  Exchange traded funds

  First cat bond ETF opens new frontier in low-correlation returns

  Catastrophe bonds linked to randomly occurring natural disasters were previously considered too illiquid for ETFs

  
• April 1 2025
  Lloyd's of London

  Lloyd’s of London chair backs internal CEO replacement

  Bruce Carnegie-Brown endorses Patrick Tiernan as insurance market prepares for three top jobs to change hands

  
• March 28 2025
  Investments

  Directors’ Deals: Phoenix executive reduces stake

  Insurer pushes ahead with transformation programme

  
• March 27 2025
  Cryptocurrencies

  EU watchdog to set punitive capital rules for insurers holding crypto

  Higher requirements designed to discourage sector from holding digital assets

  
• March 24 2025
  UK insurance industry

  Threat of state-sponsored cyber attacks could make UK terror insurer ‘obsolete’, warns Pool Re chief

  Sector is unprepared to handle growing sources of systemic risk, says Tom Clementi

  
• March 24 2025
  Patrick Jenkins

  Pensions risk: the downside of weight-loss drugs

  The health benefits could be so extreme that it upends the annuity market, hitting retirement incomes and insurers

  
• March 21 2025
  India Business Briefing

  Allianz breaks up with India’s Bajaj Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Sunil Mittal looks to expand his holding in BT, and the FT’s exclusive interview with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

  
• March 20 2025
  Munich Re

  Munich Re to buy Next Insurance to target ‘significant’ opportunities

  Acquisition values California-based start-up’s shares at $2.6bn

  
• March 20 2025
  Protectionism will help push up insurance prices, says Lloyd’s of London chief

  John Neal warns geopolitics and regulatory requirements will add to cost of policies

  
• March 20 2025
  Prudential PLC

  Prudential says profit growth hit by Chinese bond yields

  FTSE 100 insurance group sees opportunities in Asian consumers’ low level of cover

  
• March 19 2025
  Cinven Group

  Cinven sells life insurer after scrutiny of private equity ownership

  Allianz, BlackRock and Japan’s T&D team up to buy Germany’s Viridium in €3.5bn deal

  
• March 19 2025
  UK insurance industry

  Hidden ‘double dip’ charges hit UK car insurance customers on monthly contracts

  Regulator probing whether ‘premium finance’ unfairly treats policyholders who do not pay up front

  
• March 14 2025
  Climate change

  US weather agency job cuts could jeopardise climate risk data, insurers warn

  Reinsurance trade group lobbies US commerce secretary about potential impact to monitoring hurricanes and drought conditions

  
• March 10 2025
  Lloyd's of London

  Lloyd’s of London forecasts $2.3bn losses from LA wildfires

  Commercial insurance prices likely to remain high because of natural disasters and geopolitical risk, says marketplace

  
• March 6 2025
  Admiral Group PLC

  Admiral delivers record annual results as UK motor insurance profits surge

  Group’s pre-tax profits up 90% as it declares final dividend more than twice 2023 level

  
• March 5 2025
  Special ReportThe Future of Digital Healthcare

  US health insurers face pressure over AI role in claim decisions

  Class action lawsuits in the US suggest that digitised medical services can bring downsides as well as benefits

  

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