Wm. Scott Page, president and CEO of The Lifeline Program, will host a workshop on “Successful Life Settlement Portfolio Aggregation” at the 6th Insurance Linked Securities Summit (www.ilsbermuda.com) being held July 15-17, 2009 at the Fairmont Southampton resort in Bermuda. Sponsored by the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC), the summit draws top professionals in [...]

The deVere Group, the world’s largest offshore Financial Advisory Firm together with Nomura, the global investment bank, have established a world-wide distribution alliance. Under this alliance, Nomura will provide deVere Advisors access to a series of exclusive offers from its range of structured investments. The first product to be launched on 1 June 2009 under [...]

NetSol Technologies, Inc. “NetSol” a U.S. corporation providing global business services and enterprise application solutions to private and public sector organizations worldwide, today announced the launch of its new corporate Web site at www.Netscape.com.
With an emphasis on direct, functional design, the new Web site contains a comprehensive overview of NetSol’s solutions-based products and services. The [...]

Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., a market leader in laboratory and diagnostic information systems, will be exhibiting its latest best-of-suite Laboratory Information System (LIS), anatomic pathology software, and comprehensive business management solutions at the Arab Health 2008 Conference being held at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre from January 26-29, 2009. Sunquest solutions enable hospitals and laboratories [...]

Robert L. Clarke, who served as U.S. Comptroller of the Currency from 1985 to 1992, has been elected to the Mutual of Omaha Board of Directors, Chairman and CEO Dan Neary announced.
Clarke is a Senior Partner and founder of the global financial services practice at the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani in Houston, where [...]

We are delighted to announce that MerchantBridge, a direct investment and private equity company focused on the Middle East, has joined forces with UBS Global Asset Management, one of the world’s leading asset managers, to form a 50/50 joint venture called MerchantBridge-UBS Private Equity. The joint venture will develop and manage a series of private [...]

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Alliance Insurance (PSC) (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). The outlook for both ratings is stable.
The ratings reflect the company’s strong liquidity, stable underwriting performance and strong risk-adjusted capitalisation. This is partially offset by high reinsurance dependence on [...]