AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. announced that The Company will be participating in the 2009 Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller (FPK) Small & Mid-Cap Bank and Insurance Conference being held on June 17, 2009. The conference will be held at The Roosevelt Hotel New York, located in mid-town Manhattan.
AmTrust President & CEO Barry Zyskind is scheduled [...]

Britannia members overwhelmingly endorse plans to merge with The Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) to create new super-mutual.
New business will be the most diversified customer-owned enterprise in
UK financial services, providing ethical alternative to banks
– Strong strategic and cultural fit between the [...]

Tim Richison, chief financial officer of the California Earthquake Authority since 1997, was named CFO of the Year by the Sacramento Business Journal at ceremonies held today. Judges cited Richison’s achievements as part of the original team at CEA — an entity that opened its doors in 1996 and has since become an international model [...]

The Board of Directors of Central Valley Community Bancorp (Company) the parent company of Central Valley Community Bank (Bank), is pleased to announce that President and CEO Daniel J. Doyle will be presenting at the Sandler O’Neill West Coast Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 between 10:45 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. PST as [...]

Alliant Insurance Services, the nation’s largest specialty insurance brokerage firm, has announced a significant organizational change that strengthens the company’s leadership team while maintaining Alliant’s commitment to a flat management structure. Effective immediately, Ralph Hurst now directs the company’s retail operations as President, National Brokerage Group, while Sean McConlogue, President, Alliant Specialty Insurance Services, directs [...]

A proposed national insurance regulatory office would give the federal government a window into the insurance business and allow it to identify and respond to emerging issues more readily than state insurance departments.
Moreover, a national insurance regulatory office would give Congress the leverage is presently lacks to force action to address new problems.
Promontory Financial Group, [...]

Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality(TM) solutions, has appointed Stephen Bailey as director of financial services strategies, leveraging his twenty five years of expertise and knowledge of the financial and high technology consulting industries to help advance the company’s financial services information quality solution set. [...]

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 [...]

Kingsway Financial Services Inc (”Kingsway”) announced today that it has cancelled the special meeting of shareholders called for February 10, 2009 as a result of the settlement with Mr. Joseph Stilwell and his associates (the “Stilwell Group”) of the matters giving rise to the requisition for the meeting
The settlement involves the appointment to the Kingsway [...]

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nationwide) has completed its previously announced transaction to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Nationwide Financial Services (NFS) it did not already own. The transaction has been approved by all relevant governmental authorities and by NFS shareholders. NFS is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nationwide and a [...]