Titan Business Insurance is concerned that Europe’s troubles are about to haunt the UK again as the markets once again become obsessed with Spanish and Italian bond prices. For the last month, fears over the future of Europe had subsided says Titan, mainly because of the Europe Central Bank pumping millions of Euros into the … Read More
Commercial Insurance
Beware of Aggregator Websites
In January of this year the Financial Services Authority (FSA) cracked down on 2 aggregator websites (BeatThatQuote and ArgosCompare.co.uk) by closing them down as a preventative measure to customers being misled. One of the issues raised by the FSA were the concerns that customers thought they were receiving actual quotations rather than illustrative ones.The FSA … Read More
One in Three Don’t Think Coalition is Business Friendly
Titan Business Insurance is concerned that a recent survey shows that one in three of the UK’s largest companies believe that the Government, formed from the Tory and Liberal parties into a Coalition, is not business friendly. What’s more says Titan Business Insurance, only 13% of companies say that the Coalition is favourable to business. … Read More
Change With The Times
Titan Social Club Insurance believes that organisations need to stay alert to changing needs and requirements from their users in order to stay ahead of the times and prosper. With tough economic conditions and pressure on memberships, social clubs need to pull out all the stops in order to make their core proposition attractive to … Read More
Latest ECB Deal – Will It Help?
Titan Business Insurance hopes that the latest round of help from the European Central Bank will do much to stop the market’s short term worry over the future prospects of the eurozone. The European Central Bank has provided soft loans (low interest) to some 800 of Europe’s main banks and institutions in the hope that … Read More
Warehouse Owners Should Check Policies
Titan Warehouse Insurance is warning all warehouses to check that their insurance is up to date and covers all the necessary risks. Titan Warehouse Insurance says that a number of warehouse fires and incidents have occurred recently which further demonstrate the vulnerability of warehouses to naturally occurring problems and also ones based on criminal intent, … Read More
Engineering Personnel Brain Drain
Titan Engineer Insurance worries that skilled engineering workers are adding to a sector brain drain as more people seek jobs in emerging economies and thinks that the long term effect could be a delay in the recovery. Titan Engineer Insurance says that many engineering projects rely on highly skilled personnel which once gone overseas, can … Read More
Bank of England Signals Better Times
Titan Business Insurance is pleased to hear the mood music coming from the Bank of England has changed and that there are now some upbeat notes and not just funereal sombre tones, but still worries that SMEs will not feel the benefit quickly enough and that this will stifle any sense of a recovery. Titan … Read More
Bank Lending Reducing
Titan Business Insurance is concerned that bank lending to SMEs has continued to dry up as institutions protect their balance sheets in worsening economic conditions. And Titan believes that there are some signs of recovery in the US, thepoor sentiment brought on by the slow death of the eurozone is making UK and mainland banks … Read More
Warehouse Development Fuelled by eCommerce
Titan Warehouse Insurance believes that the warehouse market is continuing to grow and much of the growth is being driven by internet ecommerce companies which have swapped high street stores for storage and processing warehouses which have to cater for thousands of lines of stock. Many of the large ecommerce operations, such as Amazon and … Read More