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UK insurer RSA announced it is exiting the UK personal lines motor market to focus on its core lines. The company explained the move by saying that the personal lines motor market in the UK remains extremely competitive and requires …

Atlanta-based InsureTrust, a cyber insurance specialty broker, has named Florence Levy executive vice president. InsureTrust, part of Starwind Specialty, said that Levy is well-known in the industry and was previously a director of cyber incident management with another global broker. …

Aqueous Underwriting has secured major new capacity following the signing of an initial three-year deal with insurer Allianz Insurance. The move is part of the MGA’s plans to significantly grow its presence in the commercial SME market where it specializes …

Google parent Alphabet asked a U.S. federal judge on Monday to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit alleging that the search giant illegally abused its dominance of online advertising. The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January along with …

Russia has successfully redirected all its crude oil exports affected by Western sanctions over Ukraine to “friendly” countries, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said on Tuesday, while still a decline in oil and gas output this year. The West imposed wide-ranging …

Australia’s financial institutions must improve their resilience to cyberattacks, the head of the nation’s banking regulator said Tuesday. A recent review uncovered a “lack of rigor” in the nature and frequency of security control testing and insufficient board oversight on …

Billionaire Ajay Piramal and TPG Inc. are considering selling their stakes in Shriram General Insurance Holdings Co., according to people familiar with the matter. Piramal and TPG are jointly working with an adviser on divesting a combined 30% stake in …

A group of climate activists has called on 30 insurance company CEOs to “immediately” stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects in the wake of a stark climate warning from U.N. scientists, a letter, seen by Reuters, showed. Insure our Future, …

The world’s biggest crypto exchange Binance and its CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao were sued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday for operating what the regulator alleged were an “illegal” exchange and a “sham” compliance program. …

A top US banking regulator has launched investigations into managers’ conduct in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures. “It is worth noting that these two institutions were allowed to fail,” Martin Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance …