Research and Markets: Life and Pensions Quarterly Competitor Tracker...Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:20:02 GMT ... back in domestic markets over emerging markets Product innovation and customer targeting Aviva Friends Provident HSBC UK: HSBC introduces HSBC IFA insurance Irish Life Legal & General Liverpool Victoria Manulife Financial Nationwide Prudential US ... CRICKET: Sussex sign Dilshan for t20Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:39 GMT ... Shoreham sport. Where are you? Add your pin to the Herald's international readers' map by steve.bailey@worthingherald.co.uk U.K. firms avoid 'hunted' roleWed, 10 Mar 2010 18:34:54 GMT Typically when a country's currency falls, that nation's companies become prey to foreign takeovers, for the simple logic that they are cheaper to international firms. The Ambitions of Prudential's Tidjane ThiamWed, 10 Mar 2010 18:21:34 GMT ... City and Thiam will find out over the next few months whether emotion will carry the giant deal, one of the biggest in UK corporate history, across the finish-line. The deal has already stirred the emotions of the Square Mile. British fund managers ... More Galleon witnesses were wired; Smarter money: Just as it was with ...Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:53:22 GMT Federal prosecutors in Manhattan equipped several cooperating witnesses with recording devices to try to obtain information about targets in the Galleon insider-trading probe, people familiar with the matter say. New Trends in Outsourcing StrategiesWed, 10 Mar 2010 12:20:53 GMT ... On March 4, ACS unveiled their newest green effort which is the state-of-the-art green data center at Telford in the UK. The center boasts of "the best-of-breed technology with the highest caliber of green credentials," and the ability to save up to ... Swiss Re, Munich Re face $500 mln losses in ChileWed, 10 Mar 2010 09:39:00 GMT Reinsurance giants Swiss Re and Munich Re on Wednesday estimated they will be hit by losses of $500 million or more each from the earthquake in Chile, while the insurance industry as a whole is likely to face a bill of between $4 billion and $7 billion. MetLife Eclipses Benmosche's AIGTue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT MetLife Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Henrikson, who vowed not to waste the financial crisis, will control a larger overseas life insurance operation than his old boss after agreeing to pay $15.5 billion for a unit of American International Group Inc. American Intnl Group UK Regulatory Announcement: AIG Announces...Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:49:48 GMT ... erican International Group, Inc. Permalink: Sharing Permalink Permalink Tasty gains on compass menuWed, 10 Mar 2010 04:38:09 GMT ... use its strong balance sheet to target small and medium-sized acquisitions. The same broker's cautious comments on the UK banking sector led to state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group both closing 1 2p overdrawn at 39p and 531 ... UK banks face test to balance financesWed, 10 Mar 2010 03:47:10 GMT UK banks including Barclays may need to shrink their balance sheets by as much as 530 billion to meet new liquidity and capital requirements, according to Credit Suisse Group analyst Jonathan Pierce. Shares of government-backed companies jumpTue, 09 Mar 2010 23:26:00 GMT ... sell its AIA subsidiary for $35.5 billion in cash and stock to U.K. insurer Prudential PLC /quotes/comstock/23s!a:pru ( UK:PRU 519.50 , +1.50 , +0.29% ) . These transactions will generate more than $25 billion in cash that AIG plans to use to repay ... No happy ending for the GurkhasTue, 09 Mar 2010 22:38:44 GMT ... to give A 500 for help the British government is offering for nothing, before sending him to see advisers from the UK law firms who have come to Nepal, including advisers from Howe Co. Its lawyers told me they did not take money from Gurkhas, but ... MetLife Chief Henrikson Eclipses Benmosche After Vow Not to Waste CrisisTue, 09 Mar 2010 20:53:15 GMT MetLife Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Henrikson , who vowed not to waste the financial crisis, will control a larger overseas life insurance operation than his old boss after agreeing to pay $15.5 billion for a unit of American International Group Inc. Friends Provident CEO Visits Isle Of ManTue, 09 Mar 2010 17:20:02 GMT ... as businesses in Luxembourg and Malaysia, for the first time contributed more to the company than Friends Provident's UK operations. Those figures highlighted the importance of FPI to the group. Jonathan Hall, director and general manager of Friends ... Chevron, First Solar, United T...Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:28:23 GMT Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses. M&A Navigator: Deal pipeline - 8 MarTue, 09 Mar 2010 13:29:26 GMT ... Global private equity firm Coller Capital is leading the race for HBOS Integrated Finance, the last investment asset of UK bank HBOS, and a deal may be struck this week. Status: Speculation; Bidding - AFTON CHEMICAL WRAPS UP POLARTECH TAKEOVER US ... FTSE in-depth: UK Coal heats up on cash bid talkTue, 09 Mar 2010 12:13:20 GMT The temperature was turned up at UK Coal as shares of the former British Coal sewed a richer seam at 52.5p, up 3p. European Stocks Are Littl...Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:03:04 GMT European stocks fluctuated near a seven-week high for the Stoxx Europe 600 Index as gains by food companies offset declines by basic-resource producers. Business briefs: Partners push China to ease currency controlTue, 09 Mar 2010 08:31:48 GMT China faces mounting pressure from trading partners to loosen currency controls and is giving signs it might raise the value of the yuan to ease strains on its fast-growing economy. |