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 and Ireland earnings rise by 32%

Financial results

20 February 2014

AXA UK and Ireland’s earnings soared 32% in 2013, driven by strong wealth management growth and improved insurance profitability, despite a slight revenue dip amid disciplined underwriting and weather challenges.

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Chivalry is not dead: AXA research reveals that little things mean a lot to UK women

Surveys and reports

3 December 2013

AXA study reveals that a chivalrous act is still a little thing that means a lot to many people across the UK with women overwhelmingly welcoming these kinds of gestures.

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Deafness claims against British businesses rapidly rise to £26m in 2012

Product

7 May 2013

AXA reports a 75% rise in deafness claims in 2012, driven by genuine and fraudulent cases, urging employers to enforce proper hearing protection.

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AXA UK to cease retail banking advice service

Product

15 April 2013

AXA UK announces 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.

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Back seat learners – parents pass on lessons of aggressive driving, law-breaking and drink driving

Product

15 September 2011

Research from AXA provides evidence that the behaviour of today’s young drivers can at least in part be blamed on the way their parents behave behind the wheel.