Accenture and ION among quartet vying for Italy’s Cedacri -sources

[ad_1] MILAN, Nov 25 (Reuters) – IT consultancy Accenture and international fintech company ION Group are among a group of four bidders that have submitted indicative bids for Italian banking…

Insurer Direct Line counts the cost of Britain’s long, icy winter

[ad_1] (Reuters) – British motor and home insurer Direct Line Insurance Group DLGD.L reported a 5 percent fall in quarterly gross written premiums and said claims linked to Britain’s recent…

British insurer Admiral pulls special dividend

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – British insurer Admiral ADML.L has suspended plans to pay a special dividend of 20.7 pence per ordinary share, although it will continue to pay its planned…

FACTBOX-The Benettons: Italian magnates who went from sweaters to roads

[ad_1] MILAN, July 15 (Reuters) – The Benetton family started building its fortune in the 1960s with a small Italian knitwear factory and ended up at the head of an…

Lloyd’s of London ditches plan to create its own electronic exchanges

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Lloyd’s of London has dropped ambitious plans to set up its own electronic exchanges and will work with other existing platforms to speed up the underwriting…

FCA insurance test case appeal heads to Supreme Court

[ad_1] By Kirstin Ridley, Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – A test case brought by Britain’s markets regulator against some of the world’s biggest insurers will jump straight to the Supreme…