Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company has named Travis Bethune as the new vice president for its distribution management and services leader. Based in the firm's Corporate Office in Novato, California, Bethune joined Fireman earlier this ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill is constructing a$250m integrated broiler poultry project in Chuzhou city,Anhui province,China,in an effort to strengthen its presence in the country. The integrated broiler facility,which is being ...
American agribusiness company Cargill reported that its net earnings for the fiscal 2013 first quarter ended 31 August 2012 soared 313% to $975m, compared to $236m the previous year. Revenues for the first quarter were $33.8bn, down 2.3% ...
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ReneSola has earmarked a deal with PowerGuard Specialty Insurance Services to provide a range of long-term insurance and warranty-related coverage for its high-quality solar products. PowerGuard will cater 25 years of complete coverage ...
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FoodQuestTQ has launched three new computer software tools that have been designed to help food businesses establish quantitative risk management for food safety. According to the company, the software manages threats and risks associated ...
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Guy Carpenter & Company has introduced an integrated portfolio management tool, GC ProfitPoint+, aimed to assist insurance companies in enhancing profitability, underwriting performance and drive growth. Guy Carpenter US Operations CEO ...
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XL has appointed Chris Dougherty as new chief financial officer to manage the company’s global insurance operations including financial reporting and planning, accounting, budgeting and financial analysis. XL Group's Insurance ...
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Insurance broker Bolton & Company has acquired US based independent insurance agency Reaume Financial Group. Reaume Financial, founded in 1982, provides employee benefit services in southern California. As part of the deal, Reaume ...
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US liability insurance carrier for the accounting profession CAMICO registered a gain of $2.2m in policyholders’ surplus for the year ended 31 December 2011. As per the details published in its Insurance Company's 2011 Operations ...
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Taiwan may be able to establish RQFII (renminbi qualified foreign institutional investor) mechanism, similar to Hong Kong, thereby facilitating the flowing back of renminbi to mainland China, which is critical for Taiwan to develop into a ...
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The £1.4bn losses caused by a rogue trader at Swiss bank UBS could have been avoided had a computer used to detect unauthorised trading been more effective, according to the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA has fined UBS ...
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Bermuda-based property and casualty insurance and reinsurance specialty provider Endurance Specialty Holdings has acquired Galileo Weather Risk Management(Galileo)assets. Weather risk management products and services provider,Galileo will ...
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Insurance Linked Securities(ILS)and Life,Pension and Investment(LPI)administration services provider,Kane has appointed named new Head of Business Development and Senior Account Manager in Europe. Kane Group has appointed Damian McNamara ...
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Concordis Group,a provider of business insurance services,is currently in the process of signing a letter of intent to procure an undisclosed domestic insurance company. As previously announced on 4 October 2012,Concordis Group CEO ...
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UK security services have begun bridging the gap that has stopped open source software getting security clearance for use in government systems. The initiative has come too late to stop the first big contract wins delivered under the ...