Broker
Northern exposure
Manchester review
Misys Countrywide brokers given access
A total of 850 Misys Countrywide brokers have been given access to a range of Towergate non standard...
Appointment at Alliance
Alliance has appointed risk services manager Andrew Richardson to spearhead a new health and safety ...
Appointment at The Jelf Group
The Jelf Group has announced the appointment of David Walker to its board as a non-executive directo...
Appointment at Munro Insurance Consultants
Derek Richardson has joined Munro Insurance Consultants as associate director. He joins from HSBC In...
The Jelf Group reports a significant rise in turnover
The Jelf Group has reported a 26% rise in turnover in the first results since its float on the Alter...
Insurance Leadership Group founded by Prince's Trust
A special insurance leadership group is being set up by The Prince's Trust, the UK's leading youth c...
Primary acquisition double may be repeated in first half
Commercial underwriting agency Primary Broker Services and Primary Group subsidiary Vega have comple...
Smart and Cook appoints new chair
Smart and Cook has announced the appointment of David Owen as its new non-executive chairman, follow...
House of cards
Household
Cybit extends functionality
E-commerce & technology
Prince's Trust: insurance leaders group
A special insurance leadership group is being set up by youth charity, The Prince's Trust. The Trust...
Appointments
Market moves
PBS seals major Spectrum deal
Commercial underwriting agency Primary Broker Services (PBS), part of the international insurance di...
NU adds steel to online offering
Norwich Union (NU) has strengthened its online risk management tool kit for fleet managers with a ra...
Vega completes biggest acquisition
Vega Insurance Services, part of the Primary Group, has acquired its largest broker to date. Jobson...
Appointment at Donns Solicitors
Donns Solicitors has appointed Mark Beswick as money laundering and compliance officer at its Manche...
The ego has landed
Following the leveraged buyout of Stuart Alexander's ex-joint managing director Alex Shead, at 40, Stuart Reid is one of the youngest owner-managers of a big brokerage in the UK. He talks to Richard Adams about his love/hate relationship with the new…
Appointment at Jelf Group
The Jelf Group has appointed Philip Wilkinson as commercial account executive to launch a new busine...
Clear and present danger
Packaged commercial cover, once exclusively the domain of brokers, is facing increasing competition from banks and direct business. Marcus Alcock assesses whether this cosy niche now faces the same fate as intermediated personal lines
Oval snaps up Beddis
Broking group Oval has acquired Birmingham-based commercial broker Beddis & Partners for a mixture o...
Sentiment surveys
The second quarterly Professional Broking sentiment survey has hinted that consolidation may occur i...
ACLP teams up with Opus
Allianz Cornhill Legal Protection has teamed up with national broker Opus to underwrite commercial l...