Appointments / Industry

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking to open a new office in Leeds as part of an expansion across the country. This morning FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi revealed that the regulator...

Employee benefits platform WorkLife has appointed Niamh McLaughlin as managing director as part of a management rejig. McLaughlin (pictured) succeeds Robert Marshall who moves into the newly created role of head of...

Claims Consortium Group (CCG) director of operations and third party administration Claire Lashbrook has joined the advisory board of the Society of Claims Professionals. The society is the professional body within the...

HDI Global Specialty has entered the private medical insurance (PMI) and international IPMI markets and has appointed underwriter Ben Haden from Generali to launch the operation. The firm, which is a joint...

A programme which enables 'career break' professionals to return to the insurance sector has proven so successful that its organisers are considering renewing it for a new batch of recruits later this...

Owl Financial, The Openwork Partnership’s protection advice business, has improved its gender balance and recruited more than 165 advisers in the first half of this year. The firm said a major focus...

New Zealand life insurer Fidelity Life has appointed Bronwyn Kirwan as its new chief sales and service officer. Kirwan, who most recently has been leading Swiss Re-owned insurer IptiQ, has held distribution...

Professional indemnity insurance (PII) provider Beazley has appointed Troy Dehmann as chief operating officer with immediate effect. Dehmann (pictured) has more than 20 years of leadership experience in finance, operations and business...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has teamed up with the Southampton Data Science Academy (SDSA) to develop a course aimed at helping insurance professionals meet data and artificial intelligence (AI) challenges head...

Economic secretary to the Treasury and City minister John Glen has demanded a “real commitment to tangible action” from the financial services industry to improve the diversity of its population. Glen added...