Newsroom
Welcome to the AXA UK Newsroom. Here you'll find press releases, downloadable resources and information on our public affairs activity and financial results.
AXA UK to cease retail banking advice service
Product
15 April 2013
AXA UK has today announced that it will cease to offer face to face financial advice in the branches of its UK banking partners – The Co-operative Banking Group and Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks.
AXA launches new travel insurance website
Innovation
8 April 2013
A new travel insurance website for customers with Lloyds TSB Added Value Accounts has been created by AXA Direct & Partnerships. This first in the market for the insurance industry is designed to assist customers to ensure they reap the full benefits of travel insurance provided via their Lloyds TSB bank account bundle – the travel insurance element of which is underwritten by AXA Direct & Partnerships.
AXA UK plc appoints Ian Brimecome as Chairman
People
27 March 2013
AXA UK has appointed Ian Brimecome as Chairman of the Board. Mr Brimecome has been a non-executive director of AXA UK for six years and takes up his new role today.
One in four hard-hit consumers will be ‘forced to make major lifestyle changes’ to cope with financial turmoil
Financial results
14 March 2013
The first Big Money Index of 2013 finds that many consumers will be forced into making extreme cost-cutting measures.
The rise of the “mobile office” leaves businesses vulnerable
Product
18 February 2013
Research among commercial van drivers in the UK has found that modern technology has led to a doubling in the number of small businesses using their vans as a “mobile office” in the last five years. But AXA Business Insurance warns that many could be leaving themselves and their businesses at risk by failing to take sensible precautions around the equipment that keeps them mobile.
Austerity reaches the affluent
Financial results
14 September 2012
New report finds that austerity is now firmly gripping more affluent consumers, with a third of high earners having switched to cheaper supermarkets.
Interim Results 2012: Strong broker-led revenue growth
Financial results
3 August 2012
Non-direct Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance revenues improved by 5%, with strong growth in AXA Insurance Commercial Lines and Personal Lines Intermediary (+8%) and AXA PPP Healthcare (+6%).
UK business leaders expecting ‘summer of sweat’
Product
17 July 2012
A survey of UK small and medium-sized business leaders has found that ongoing uncertainty over their near-term economic prospects is putting pressure on them to work more hours for less gain this summer.
AXA Commercial Lines appoints Martin Friel as head of media strategy
People
20 June 2012
AXA Commercial Lines has appointed former Insurance Age editor, Martin Friel, as head of media strategy with immediate effect.