CLIENT NEWS

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced its final Showcase for the year, heading North to Bolton. Following the success of the Midlands and South events earlier this year, this Showcase, in association with One Family, will be taking place on the 30th November at the Bolton Whites Hotel, Marcon Stadium in Bolton.

EFI Global is pleased to announce our new office location in Golden, British Columbia headed up by Mrs. Jubilee Cacaci, MSc., EP, A.Ag. Jubilee Cacaci is an Environmental Technologist with over 20 years of industry experience.

Two men who claimed to have been involved in a road accident in order to fraudulently claim thousands of pounds from QBE Business Insurance have been ordered to pay back what will amount to close to £150,000.

SimplyBiz has announced this year’s second round of learning and development events, to be held at 21 venues across the country. Following the success of the first series of the learning and development events, which are accredited by the CII and London Institute of Banking and Finance, earlier this year, the second round of events will cover a wide range of areas, including cash flow modelling, risk and capacity for loss; pensions and divorce and HMRC’s disclosure requirements for trusts.

International legal business DWF has announced a significant investment in its London corporate team with the appointment of insurance sector heavy-weight Mel Sims, a former corporate partner at DLA Piper based in London and latterly in Qatar.

Global tax compliance and reporting software leader Sovos announced today that it has acquired U.K.-based FiscalReps, Europe’s leading solution for Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) compliance, adding a critical indirect tax solution to its Intelligent Compliance Cloud and expanding its team to support increased demand for tax and reporting automation in the region.

The latest business confidence survey conducted on behalf of DAS UK Group, the UK’s leading legal expenses insurer, has found that 80% of UK insurance brokers expect London to retain its place as a leading global insurance market, despite the country’s decision to leave the European Union.

Ventiv Technology, the world’s leading independent provider of risk technology solutions, announces that it has purchased Webrisk, the risk management information system (RMIS) from Effisoft SAS, the risk and re/insurance solutions firm.

YFM Equity Partners (“YFM”), the specialist private equity fund manager, has backed a £1.5 million investment into e2E Engineering Limited (e2E), a leading technical consultancy operating in the telecommunications market, with particular expertise in satellite communications. YFM’s funding comes from its two advised VCTs, British Smaller Companies and British Smaller Companies 2.

Sourcing the vast amount of data needed to meet the new regulatory requirements of MiFID II and PRIIPs is the biggest challenge facing both asset managers and insurers, according to a survey undertaken by Silverfinch, the leading regulatory data exchange, at its recent London conference.