Spain/Portugal
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Riskline adds French and Spanish travel alerts
Travel risk firm Riskline will now deliver message alerts in French and Spanish to business travellers, in addition to English.…
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Swiss Re warns of ‘urgent’ threat to biodiversity
Swiss Re has said one fifth of countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing and called for “urgent action”…
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Gallagher advances European strategy by five years with WTW deal, says CEO
Arthur J Gallagher is used to buying and integrating rival brokers, having completed more than 500 transactions in the past…
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Covid-19 pushes Europe to triple disaster-response budget
The EU has put in place new funding to strengthen the bloc’s response to natural and manmade disasters, including pandemics,…
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European countries carry higher earthquake risk in FM Global’s updated map
Several European countries now carry a higher risk of earthquake, according to the latest interactive global threat map from commercial…
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Mapfre Re and Global Risks turn profit as premiums rise
Mapfre Global Risks, which serves large corporate and multinational customers, delivered a net profit of €8m in the first quarter…
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Sale of WTW’s Spanish business good news if right buyer found, says Igrea
The sale of Willis Towers Watson (WTW) units in Spain to get the merger with Aon past EC anticompetition authorities…
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The Super League: How not to manage communication and its risks!
The failed launch of the European Super League football project is a classic example of badly assessed and disastrously ineffective…
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German business bears the brunt of cyber offensive
The fifth edition of the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report finds that German businesses accounted for more than a third of…
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Leading Spanish insurance litigator joins DAC Beachcroft in Madrid
Pablo Guillén has been appointed as a partner in DAC Beachcroft’s global insurance practice in Madrid. DAC Beachcroft said Mr…
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Howden acquires Spanish broker ARTAI and opens new Swiss office
Howden has continued its European expansion with the acquisition of Spain’s largest independent corporate broker ARTAI for an undisclosed fee.…
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Best maintains stable outlook for Spanish non-life market after profitable 2020
AM Best has maintained a stable outlook on the Spanish non-life insurance market after limited exposure to Covid-19 and catastrophe…
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Howden and Gallagher lead the hunt for WTW’s European business
Howden and A J Gallagher are frontrunners for the Willis Towers Watson (WTW) business in Europe that it seems Aon…
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Insolvencies to ‘surge’ by 26% in 2021: Atradius
Insolvencies are set to jump 26% globally this year with several European countries likely to be worst hit as the…
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Aon offers to sell WTW’s multinational P&C portfolio in four EU countries: Reuters sources
Aon has offered to sell Willis Towers Watson’s (WTW) entire large multinational P&C portfolio in Germany, France, Spain and the…
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Generali committed to further M&A despite Covid-19: Donnet
Generali will continue its planned growth path under CEO Philippe Donnet’s Generali 2021 plan and has a further €2.3bn to spend…
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Concerns mount over claims in hard market
Claims are becoming more difficult in the hard market, with mounting concern that problems caused by buyers using multiple insurers…
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The time has come to embrace ART, says Igrea president
The time has come for companies to look at alternative risk transfer (ART) strategies to mitigate the effects of the…
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Spanish buyers fear hard market is affecting claims
Spanish risk managers are concerned that the effects of the hard market are moving beyond difficult renewals to claims, where…
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GDPR fines up 39% in 2020
Regulatory fines for data breaches under the GDPR increased 39% in Europe during the past year to €158.5m, according to…