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Global premiums in the life market are expected to grow by around 4% in real terms in 2014 and 2015, according to Swiss Re.

Insurer Zurich is training its sales staff to obtain the same minimum qualification level as that required of the advisers they speak to.

I the first of a series of initiatives, mutual Benenden Health has launched a subsidiary ‘Benenden Wellbeing Limited' with a new initiative ‘Independent Living'.

Life assurer Resolution is in talks over a possible sale of its European private and corporate client wealth planning division, Lombard.

Barclays has launched a new feature within its mobile app, Barclays Pingit, giving businesses such as insurers the ability to pay individuals using their mobile phone numbers.

Insurer Zurich has made close to $1bn from the sale of its stake in Chinese insurer New China Life (NCI).

Two rogue private investigators, who were hired by Allianz and other firms between 2009 and 2010, have been found guilty of conspiring to breach the Data Protection Act.

The European Union has agreed the final measures of the Solvency II framework and given a January 2016 start date.

Bupa has announced its partnership deal with UK Sport is to continue until March 2014.

Friends Life has reported a 41% increase in the value of new business for the first nine months of 2013, rising from £94m during the same period last year to reach £133m.