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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: PHLY) announced that Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. (”Tokio Marine”) received approval of its proposed acquisition of control of the Company from the Financial Services Agency of Japan.
As previously announced on July 23, 2008, the Company and Tokio Marine entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) pursuant [...]

Magellan Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:MGLN) announced that it will release financial guidance for 2009 on Wednesday, December 17, 2008. President and Chief Executive Officer René Lerer, M.D., and Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Rubin will host a conference call for the investment community at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time the same day.
The press release detailing the [...]

Unlike many financial companies that are cutting costs by reducing staffs, freezing new hires, and eliminating departments, CUSO Financial Services, LP, (CFS) a full-service broker dealer and Registered Investment Adviser that provides customized investment and insurance solutions to the credit union industry, today announced it has added Sandra deChastain to its program development team as [...]

John Hancock Financial Network (JHFN),* the successful career agency arm of John Hancock Financial Services, is implementing across its national network a new innovative business model which offers financial professionals a choice of three types of affiliation, based on the level of independence and support they desire.
“After studying different distribution models in our industry, our [...]