Appointments / Industry

Pacific Life Re has appointed Soichiro Makimoto as head of its Japan representative office. Makimoto joins from Moody’s Japan and brings more than 25 years of experience across the insurance and banking...

Allianz Partners has expanded its health and benefits network into Africa through its regional partnership with SanlamAllianz.  It creates an integrated global employee health benefits network across Africa in 11 countries. Global...

Benenden Health has added skin cancer detection service SkinVision to its products giving access to all its 870,000 membership. New members will be able to access the service from day one joining....

Aviva is providing an employee assistance programme (EAP) to clients with any of its group protection policies for no additional charge as part of a new arrangement with HealthHero which is replacing...

Mortgage and protection advice firm Vickers Young has joined network Stonebridge. Founded in 2012 by managing director Corby Macdonald, the Leicestershire firm expanded from a sole adviser operation into a 12-strong team...

Howden has appointed Carla Hammond as chief financial officer for Howden Health & Employee Benefits (HEB) and Barnett Waddingham (BW). In this role, she will lead financial strategy, governance and performance across...

Pivotal Growth has acquired Xact Mortgages, a mortgage and protection broker based in Solihull, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2007 by Jeremy Brown, Xact Mortgages has grown to a team of...

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) is campaigning for mortgage documentation to include nudges about protection insurance. Positive nudges have a key role in ensuring consumers see a future need for protection...

Standard Chartered is launching international private medical insurance (IPMI) through Bupa Global as part of a health and wellbeing offering for its highest value banking clients in Hong Kong, Singapore and India....

Protection providers have been urged to do the “right thing” with 30-day newborn death exclusions from older protection policies and bring them into line with current practices. One adviser said they had...