The ministry of agriculture and farmers’ welfare has clarified that no decision has been taken to make the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana or the PM Crop Insurance Scheme voluntary. At present, any and all farmers who take agricultural loans have to compulsorily take crop insurance. The scheme is reported to be a big money […]
HDFC said it has agreed to buy a 51% of Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company Ltd for around Rs 1,347 cr. Apollo Munich will be merged with HDFC’s general insurance subsidiary, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited, even as Munich Re continues to remain invested in the new, merged entity. HDFC already has a joint […]
Content curator and music label Saregama said it received an amount of Rs 32.18 crores from the National Insurance Company Ltd in compensation for the loss of stocks of its radio music players Carvaan and Carvaan mini in a fire at its Bhiwandi godown. On April 1, Saregama had reported that its godown where its […]
IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it has been selected by one of the largest insurers in the United Kingdom, Ageas UK, to transform its digital infrastructure. Headquartered in Brussels, Ageas is Belgium’s largest insurer and operates in 14 countries worldwide. As per the deal, TCS will help Ageas UK to consolidate data centres, […]
Mangalore-headquartered Karnataka Bank on Tuesday said it has agreed to distribute insurance products from Bharti Axa General Insurance Ltd. The private sector bank will provide a wide range of life insurance products of Bharti Axa Insurance to its customers across all its 836 branches. “The partnership is an important part of our growth strategy, which […]
ICICI Lombard, one of India’s leading private sector general insurance companies, said it has entered into a strategic partnership with one of India’s largest retail payment platform MobiKwik to provide cyber-insurance cover. The newly formed partnership aims to provide the customers protection against unauthorized and fraudulent transactions online across bank accounts, debit/credit cards and mobile […]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it will deploy an enhanced policy management solution for Phoenix Group, Europe’s largest life and pensions consolidator and a TCS client of 12 years. The move will not only give more advanced features for Phoenix Group, but also increase the number of Phoenix policies managed using TCS’s BaNCS platform to 5.5 […]
Italian insurer Generali Group said it will increase its stake in Future Generali, its insurance joint venture with Future Group of India, to 49% from 25.5% at present at a cost of 120 mln euros (Rs 960 cr). Future Group is a pioneer in the organized retail market in India and is by far the […]
Majesco, the India-based provider of IT solutions to the insurance industry, said its subsidiary has been sued by a customer in the US for $10 mln (Rs 64 cr). In a filing on Sunday, Jan 28, the company said that on Jan 24, its subsidiary Majesco Software and Solutions Inc received a summons with notice […]
Tata Consultancy Services said it will take over the policy administration and customer service functions of US insurer Transamerica along with 2,200 of its employees in a $2 bln-plus, multi-year deal. The Indian company will migrate the administration of over 10 mln insurance policies on to its BaNCS platform and provide ‘third party administration’ or […]
The total amount raised via initial public offering of equity shares in the first eight months of the current financial year is more than the total proceeds raised in the previous five years, according to SEBI data. A total of Rs 62,736 crore has been raised in April-November period, higher than the Rs 62,147 raised […]
Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd or HDFC said the initial public offering of its life insurance unit HDFC Standard Life Insurance has been priced at the upper end of Rs 290 per share. The IPO will now mop up Rs 8,695 cr from the market. The shares were being offered in a band of Rs […]
Mahindra Finance said global insurance major XL Group will take a 20% stake in its subsidiary Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd, including the 15% currently held by LeapFrog Financial Inclusion Fund. “XL Group will help support MIBL’s endeavours to increase insurance awareness and penetration in underpenetrated markets and across under-served customers in rural India,” the group […]
Reliance Capital said the IPO of its subsidiary Nippon Life Asset Management will open on Oct 25 and close on Oct 27, with a price band of Rs 247 to Rs 252 per share. The offer will raise about 1,500 cr, out of which about Rs 600 cr will go to the company and the […]
AU Small Finance Bank has tied up with Aditya Birla Health Insurance to to distribute the latter’s health insurance products. The bank will act as a corporate agent, it said. “This tie up shall be mutually beneficial for ABHICL & AU SMALL FINANCE BANK in terms of business, market penetration and reach,” it said. Aditya […]
The drivers and staff of all vehicles classified as ‘transport’ will be brought under the definition of ‘third party’ in third party insurance policies, the finance ministry said today. This will cover buses, vans and other commercial transport vehicles and will be implemented through the upcoming amendment to theMotor Vehicles Act. At present, only the driver […]
After keeping the move on hold for three months due to the elections, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization has cut its administrative charges on the funds it manages to 0.65% from 0.85%, according to labor ministry sources. The cut in administrative charges — which was notified on Mar 15 — is to reflect the lower […]
The government of India today said that Tube Investments, a part of the Murugappa Group, withdrew its proposal seeking approval for the sale of the 14% equity it held in Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co to Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd. CORRECTION UDPATE: Murugappa Group has clarified that it has withdrawn the application after […]
Life insurer HDFC Life said it will start selling insurance policies using the Common Services Centre (CSC) network set up by the govenrment. The company has designed HDFC Life CSC Suraksha, an exclusive term insurance plan to be sold through CSC channel, it said. The annual premium for the specal CSC Suraksha scheme starts at […]
Life Insurance Corporation of India, India’s biggest life insurer, continued to lose new business to private sector players, particularly ICICI Prudential and HDFC Standard, last financial year, according to industry numbers. LIC managed to get 78,000 cr of first-year life-insurance premium out of a total of 113,142 cr, implying a market share of 69.2% of […]
