Go Digit General Insurance’s board has approved a plan to merge its holding company, Go Digit Infoworks Services, with the listed insurer. This will be the first time an insurance company has merged with a non-insurance...
Paramount TPA to merge with Medi Assist Insurance TPA
Medi Assist Healthcare Services Ltd on Monday said its step down subsidiary Paramount Health Services & Insurance TPA Private Ltd (Paramount TPA) decided to merge with another group entity Medi Assist Insurance TPA...
Samsung Life, BNP, Norwest, Prudential Plc eye stake in IndiaFirst Life Insurance
IndiaFirst Life Insurance has drawn interest from Samsung Life Insurance, Prudential Plc, BNP Paribas, and Norwest Venture Partners as existing investor Warburg Pincus explores an exit from its 26% stake, four people...
Piramal Finance to exit Shriram Life Insurance Company
Piramal Finance is selling its entire 14.72% stake in Shriram Life Insurance Company to Sanlam Emerging Markets (Mauritius) for ₹600 crore, valuing the insurer at around ₹4,000 crore. The move is part of Piramal’s...
Ackman-backed Howard Hughes to buy insurer Vantage for $2.1 billion
Bill Ackman-backed Howard Hughes Holdings said on Thursday it will buy specialty insurance firm Vantage Group Holdings for about $2.1 billion, as the real estate firm diversifies beyond property development. Howard...
Generali and France’s BPCE scrap plans to merge asset management units
Italy’s biggest insurer Generali and French bank BPCE said on Thursday they had dropped plans to merge their asset management businesses, in the absence of conditions necessary to make the deal viable. Generali in...
WTW to buy brokerage firm Newfront in up to $1.3 billion deal
Insurance broker WTW said on Wednesday it will acquire Newfront in a deal worth up to $1.3 billion, aiming to expand its reach in the U.S. middle-market through the brokerage. The deal will be through a $1.05 billion...
Baldwin strikes $1 billion deal for rival insurance broker CAC Group
The Baldwin Group said on Tuesday it will buy rival insurance broker CAC Group in a $1.03 billion cash-and-stock deal, adding to a string of mergers in recent years as industry consolidation accelerates. U.S. insurance...
NatWest in exclusive talks to sell Cushon to Willis Towers Watson, sources said
NatWest Group is in exclusive talks to sell its 85% stake in workplace pension provider Cushon to U.S. insurance broker Willis Towers Watson just two years after the British bank acquired the business, two people with...
FinMin renews merger proposal of state-owned general insurance companies
The Finance Ministry is considering an earlier proposal to merge the three state-owned general insurance companies into a single entity, following their improved financial health, to achieve better efficiency and scale...
A seven-year-old merger plan for insurance weaklings is being dusted off the shelves
The Centre is weighing a massive restructuring of National Insurance Co., Oriental Insurance Co., and United India Insurance Co., potentially involving a merger, privatization or both. The Union finance ministry is...
Vienna Insurance Group offers to buy Germany’s Nuernberger for $1.61 billion
Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) said late on Thursday that it will acquire all shares of German insurer Nuernberger Beteiligungs AG for 1.38 billion euros ($1.61 billion) in cash. VIG will offer Nuernberger shareholders...
