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    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      Insurance
      NHS troubles present ‘business opportunities’, says Axa chief

      French insurer seeks to take advantage of stresses in UK’s state-funded health system

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Lex
      Climate change: Axa casts reinsurer adrift on rising flood of claims Premium content

      As weather grows more extreme, the French group is no longer keen to cover risks other insurers want to lay off

      Man carries dog through flood waters
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Axa to buy French film studio in €150mn deal

      Real estate arm aims to capitalise on high demand for motion picture and TV production space

      Kirsten Dunst in the 2006 film Marie Antoinette
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Climate change
      Lloyd’s and five big insurers quit sector’s net-zero initiative

      Alliance members fear antitrust lawsuits and have faced criticism from US Republican politicians

      An Axa building in Milan
    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Financial services
      Axa sells Monte dei Paschi stake

      French insurer was bank’s biggest private investor and maintains insurance partnership with lender

      Axa’s headquarters in France
    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Axa seeks better Monte dei Paschi deal after leading capital raise

      French insurer was biggest private contributor to rights issue and wants improved terms on joint venture

      Exterior of Palazzo Salimbeni, headquarters of the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Axa discloses €300mn in costs from Ukraine war

      French insurer’s results exceed expectations elsewhere as it announces a further €1bn of share buybacks

      Thomas Buberl, Axa chief executive
    • Monday, 11 April, 2022
      Axa shareholders urged to vote against CEO’s new pay packet

      Proxy group ISS questions proposed offer for Thomas Buberl that would include a 14% salary hike

      Thomas Buberl, chief executive officer of Axa.
    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      Axa announces up to €1.7bn share buyback

      Big insurers have been selling out of non-core businesses and boosting returns

      Axa logo on a building
    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Legal services
      Amazon’s legal team: ‘We wanted to help’

      Lawyers tackled legal and data privacy issues to deliver Covid test kits in the UK

    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      Axa says half of French restaurateurs ready to accept Covid settlement

      Insurance group doubles underlying earnings to €3.6bn in first half of 2021

      A woman pushes a stroller past Le cafe Gourmand
    • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
      Axa to focus on health as it sets out latest strategy

      French insurer expects to pay out €1.5bn in Covid-related claims

    • Sunday, 30 August, 2020
      UK insurance industry
      Insurance broker accused of forgery to win Axa commission

      Property investor files legal claim against Lockton over documents and emails

    • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
      Axa cancels special dividend as it suffers €1.5bn pandemic hit

      Insurer withdraws two growth targets for 2020 as profit falls 39% due to Covid-19 impact

      Axa chief Thomas Buberl: ‘There is a clear message from the regulator: don’t pay anything further in 2020’
    • Wednesday, 3 June, 2020
      Axa to defy regulators with dividend payment

      Chief executive Thomas Buberl says the decision reflects a ‘balanced approach’

      Axa chief executive Thomas Buberl said the dividend issue had been the ‘subject of very intense discussion’
    • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
      Axa criticises regulatory confusion over dividend policy

      Chief executive Thomas Buberl says different guidance between countries ‘difficult to accept’

    • Thursday, 20 February, 2020
      Axa replaces head of specialist commercial insurance business XL

      Scott Gunter to take top job at unit as it warns earnings to fall short of expectations

      The AXA SA logo sits on gates outside the insurance company's headquarters at night in Paris, France, on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Axa Chief Executive Officer Thomas Buberl’s $15.3 billion purchase of XL Group Ltd., the company’s biggest ever, will make Axa the top provider of commercial casualty coverage just as premiums rise after last year’s hurricanes and California wildfires. Photographer: Christophe Morin/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
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      Axa IM chief’s abrupt exit sparks renewed sale speculation

      Leadership reshuffle follows disappointing investor outflows

      From left, Gérald Harlin, Andrea Rossi and Thomas Buberl
    • Friday, 4 October, 2019
      Insurance
      Axa boss predicts competitive threat from Faangs

      Tesla insurance launch is harbinger of big tech’s creep into sector, Buberl says

      Thomas Buberl, Chief Executive Officer of AXA Group, attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
    • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
      Interview
      Axa chief Thomas Buberl starts to win over XL deal doubters

      Scale of $15bn deal had worried investors, but group’s shares have staged a recovery

      Thomas Buberl, Chief Executive Officer of AXA Group, attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
    • Thursday, 4 July, 2019
      Northstar Realty Finance Corp
      Axa Investment to buy New York-listed Northstar Realty

      Paris-based management group will gain prime office space in Europe’s biggest markets

    • Thursday, 2 May, 2019
      Axa joins chorus of insurers hailing price increases
      FILE PHOTO: The AXA logo is seen at its headquarters in Melbourne May 31, 2010. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas/File Photo                     GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD    SEARCH GLOBAL BUSINESS 31 JUL FOR ALL IMAGES
    • Tuesday, 16 April, 2019
      Insurance
      French insurer Axa facing potential claims from Notre-Dame fire
    • Monday, 25 March, 2019
      Axa raises $1.5bn by cutting stake in US life insurance business
    • Thursday, 21 February, 2019
      Axa profits drop after natural disasters and costs of US float

      Chief executive says insurer hit by ‘unusually severe’ fourth quarter

      FILE- In this Nov. 9, 2018, file photo firefighters work to keep flames from spreading through the Shadowbrook apartment complex as a wildfire burns through Paradise, Calif. Two statewide officials want California to take out insurance to help cover taxpayers' costs in bad wildfire seasons. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Treasurer Fiona Ma said Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, that California should follow the lead of Oregon and the federal government, after outspending its emergency fund in seven of the last 10 years. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
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