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Get used to limited access, EU tells City of London bankers & insurers

Brexit makes it “even more urgent” for the EU to develop its own capital market to cut reliance on the City of London, Europe’s biggest financial centre, Mairead McGuinness said.

Britain’s full access to the EU ends on Dec. 31 when a transition period that followed Brexit in January expires.
Many banks, asset managers and insurers in London have opened hubs in the bloc to avoid disruption to clients from limited direct access from the UK.

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Covid 19 Pandemic to hit life insurers’ investment income,ULIP and Pension and Annuity business:LIC Chief

TR Alamelu, member, IRDAI explained that that the solution to the issue of under-insurance in the country does not lie in mandating insurance because a stage has been reached where insurance should be a product on “demand” and It cannot be forced upon consumers by the industry or other stakeholders.

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Govt appoints S.N. Rajeswari as member(Distribution), IRDAI

“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Rajeswari, as Whole-Time Member (Distribution) in Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), initially for a period of three years, with effect from the date of assumption of charge of the post, or till attaining the age of sixty-two years, or until further orders, whichever is the earliest, said an order by the Depat of Personnel and Training.on Wdnesday.

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Insurers are trying to escape COVID-19 liability, watchdog tells UK Supreme Cour

A lawyer for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which brought a test case against insurers on behalf of policyholders, said insurers had reached an “extraordinary conclusion” that business losses were largely uncovered during the coronavirus pandemic because of the widespread havoc it has caused.

“(Insurers) are saying: ‘We insure perils but not ones that are going to cost us a huge amount of money. We never contemplated that’. Well, that isn’t an answer,” Colin Edelman, the FCA’s lawyer, told the second day of a four-day appeal, watched by thousands of businesses brought to their knees during the pandemic.

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