OneBeacon Insurance, based in Plymouth and majority owned by New Hampshire-based White Mountains Insurance Group, is being sold to Canadian insurance company Intact Financial Corp in a deal worth $1.7 billion. The...

The Gist: AIA Group CEO Mark Tucker will be stepping down come Sep. 1 2017 as it moves on to HSBC. Ng Keng Hooi will take over the once upon a time subsidiary of...

Cape Town-based NuvaLaw announced its partnership with Norwich-based Validus-IVC to provide an end-to-end auto claims solutions. Recall: NuvaLaw is a digital negotiations platform for auto insurers that looks to facilitate claims resolution via ‘intel exchange’ and ‘legal outsourcing’. Validus-IVC is a SaaS company...

Virginia-based life and annuities insurer, Genworth Financial, said Friday that a government review of the company’s proposed $2.7B acquisition by Chinese investment firm Oceanwide, could take up to an additional 75 days,...

Admiral announced that it will underwrite van insurance directly in the UK, rather than through its broker business, Able Insurance, and its panel of insurers.  More commonly known as Gladiator,...

Back in March we reported on Goji’s decreasing web traffic and overall lack of activity on its social media accounts. And that much hasn’t changed. Look here (Facebook page), here (Twitter page) and here (SimilarWeb). But, there’s at least one...

The Gist: Canadian co-op financial group Desjardins is seeking deals up to $2.2 billion. According to Bloomberg, the company is looking to acquire insurers, wealth managers and payments firms as it seeks...

The Gist: Swinton Insurance is shutting 84 high street branches (out of 195) and slashing 900 jobs as part of a major restructuring program launched in response to ‘changing consumer behavior’. According...

Wrisk, the mobile-first insurance startup from London, announced it has signed a letter of intent to initiate a commercial relationship with BMW FS (as in Financial Services) UK once it launches its...

Agency software provider Vertafore announced the acquisition of RiskMatch, a business intelligence and analytics platform that was established in 2013 by Kabir Syed. RiskMatch will operate as a separate business unit within Vertafore...

San Fran-based personal finance blog NerdWallet has let go of 8% of its staff – some 40 employees in total. “Despite a record-breaking quarter, NerdWallet has decided to shift resources to align by...

The online insurance comparison platform is now offering quotes for ridesharing coverage in 24 states for those peeps Ubering or Lyfting…Have a look. Bottom Line: possibly-going-on-probably the first US-based car insurance comparison portal...

The leading provider of complete telecommunication solutions for Indians traveling abroad, Matrix Cellular, announced the official launch of Matrix Travel Companion App, a mobile app centered around international travelers, that offers shopping deals,...

Digital insurance manager Get Safe ditches ‘manager’ in exchange for ‘provider’. The German insurtech is looking to offer its own policies starting with liability coverage and followed by life and...