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Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund focused purely on investing in innovative, tech-led financial services firms, has launched after closing its own $100 million fund.
23 January 2013
The Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed plans to offload its Direct Line insurance business in an initial public offering that analysts suggest could be worth £3 billion.
14 September 2012
Google has introduced a UK price comparison service for car insurance, adding to the search giant's credit card and bank account offerings.
Credit Suisse is shifting dozens of back office jobs from Singapore to India and Poland in a bid to cut costs, according to the Financial Times.
03 September 2012
Aviva is inviting motorists to trial a new smartphone app which will be used to calculate tailored 'pay-how-you-drive' motor insurance premiums.
14 August 2012
ING US has inked a seven year, $330 million, insurance business process services contract with Cognizant that sees 1000 employees transfer to the vendor.
15 June 2012
Aviva Investors accidentally fired all 1300 of its global staff by e-mail on Friday, before realising its error and retracting the dismissals.
23 April 2012
SIX Swiss Exchange has been forced to delay the start of trading by three hours because of a "technical problem".
13 January 2012
Insurance giant Aviva is handing its UK risk assessment staff Blackberry PlayBook tablets with a bespoke application.
15 December 2011
Insurance giant Aviva is set to axe around 950 jobs in Ireland, merging its operations in the country with the UK business.
19 October 2011
UK supermarket bank Tesco is to offer customers the option of using its own brand price comparison service to rate home and insurance quotes served up by the retailer's online banking portal against competitor offerings.
28 September 2011
HSBC's UK insurance business has selected IBM to help it develop and roll out a business analytics system ahead of upcoming European Solvency II legislation.
27 April 2011
A member of the online collective Anonymous has published e-mails it was handed by someone claiming to be a former Bank of America employee that purport to show the suspect removal of mortgage insurance information from databases.
14 March 2011
Standard Life has made a recommended £42 million bid for UK AIM-listed financial technology supplier Focus Solutions.
07 December 2010
Churchill Home Insurance has warned customers not to advertise their whereabouts on social media sites for fear of driving a big increase in house burglaries.
23 September 2010
The Royal Bank of Scotland's Direct Line insurance unit will today tell around 400 staff at its Glasgow offices that their jobs are being axed, according to the BBC.
26 August 2010
Zurich Insurance's UK arm has been hit with a record £2.275 million fine from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the loss of a backup data tape containing the details of 46,000 customers.
24 August 2010
Lloyds Banking Group is cutting 650 permanent, full time jobs and axing more contractors and temporary staff as part of its latest shake-up.
30 June 2010
Interbank co-operative Swift's bid to break into the insurance business has been put on ice, after reinsurers proved unwilling to invest in the creation of a new electronic trading platform.
11 June 2010
Many of the flaws in risk management at banks and insurers that precipitated the global financial crisis remain unaddressed even as new dangers have emerged, according to research from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
04 May 2010
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