{"id":346,"date":"2016-01-25T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=346"},"modified":"2016-01-25T13:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:21:31","slug":"groupama-insurance-credit-rating-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Groupama Insurance credit rating upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the completion of Ageas UK&rsquo;s acquisition of Groupama Insurance Company in November, Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s has raised Groupama Insurance&rsquo;s financial strength rating to BBB with a &ldquo;stable outlook&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The ratings agency took a number of factors into consideration in making its decision including the company&rsquo;s good competitive position, established and diversified broker base, strong niche focus, improved operating performance, appropriate level of reserving and reinsurance cover, and its capitalisation.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the announcement, Ageas UK chief executive officer, Barry Smith, says: &ldquo;This is good news for brokers and customers as it creates additional stability and certainty for them to continue to trade with Groupama Insurances.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They now have independent confirmation that they are dealing with a financially strong and well capitalised business geared towards meeting their needs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.insurancedaily.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the completion of Ageas UK&rsquo;s acquisition of Groupama Insurance Company in November, Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s has raised Groupama Insurance&rsquo;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}