Allianz SE

British Land Plc said on Wednesday it had sold a 75% stake in three buildings in the West End in London for 401 million pounds ($538.8 million) to Allianz Real Estate, as the mall and office owner divests its non-core assets.

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Italy's antitrust authority said on Wednesday it had opened an investigation into Italian insurers UnipolSai and Generali and Germany's Allianz for alleged unfair commercial practices in their car-insurance businesses.

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Atlantia will hold a board meeting on Thursday to discuss splitting off its motorway assets from the group, two sources close with the matter said, as it presses ahead with a plan to part ways with its Autostrade per l'Italia business.

Allianz said on Wednesday that it was fielding a request for information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over a series of funds that suffered sharp losses amid the coronavirus-led market meltdown earlier this year and are the subject of an investor lawsuit.

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German insurer on Wednesday posted a 29% fall in net profit in the second quarter from a year earlier, as the coronavirus pandemic slows business.

Brazilian insurer Sul America SA has concluded its 3.18 billion reais ($597 million) sale of its auto unit and other businesses to Germany's Allianz SE, it said in a securities filing on Friday.

Allianz said on Wednesday that it was ending its relationship with Wirecard Bank and removing from the market a mobile payment app that the two companies had developed.

Germany's insurer Allianz SE will acquire Brazil's Sul America SA auto and property insurance portfolio for 3 billion reais ($734 million) in its largest push into Latin America's biggest economy, it said in a statement on Friday.

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Brazilian insurer Sul America SA has received a non-binding offer from Germany's Allianz SE for its property and casualty (P&C) and auto units, it said in a filing on Tuesday, adding that the two companies are in bilateral talks.

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2015 GMT on Friday:

Allianz SE said on Friday it closed its acquisition of a stake in New York's second-tallest office tower for 342 million euro ($384 million) and an undisclosed amount of debt, increasing its footprint in the city's fashionable Hudson Yards.

The U.S. Federal Reserve may find it hard to resist an "insurance cut" in interest rates this summer, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz, said after the U.S. Labor Department issued a dismal payrolls report on Friday.

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Friday:

German insurer and asset manager Allianz has led a C$100 million ($74.55 million) capital raise for Canadian financial technology company Wealthsimple.

Allianz and Amundi are each considering their options in a potential deal with Deutsche Bank's asset management unit DWS, people close to the matter said on Wednesday.