The insurer Aviva has agreed to acquire its rival Direct Line in a deal worth £3.7bn. The takeover is expected to be completed in mid-2025, at which point Direct Line Group's brands and services will ...

The City loves a deal. Consumers, not so much. For them, a tie-up between insurance giants Aviva and Direct Line, at a time when car insurance prices are at historic highs, is a far from enticing ...

Bike thieves are leaving university students with a whopping £18.7million bill for stolen bikes according to research from Direct Line home insurance. The findings reveal that 106 bicycles are stolen ...

Insurance takeover is likely to cast a pall of uncertainty over Christmas for many staff of combined group Aviva has agreed to buy the rival insurer Direct Line for £3.7bn, with up to 2,300 job cuts ...

Aviva’s acquisition of smaller insurance peer Direct Line has been approved by the competitions watchdog, paving the way for the formation of Britain’s biggest home and motor insurer. The £3.7bn ...

(Sharecast News) - Aviva said it had struck a deal to buy troubled insurance rival Direct Line for £3.75bn after intensive talks over the weekend but warned it would be looking for cost savings via ...

(Bloomberg) — Aviva Plc agreed to buy Direct Line Insurance Group Plc for roughly £3.7 billion ($4.65 billion) in a deal that would create the UK’s largest motor insurer. Each Direct Line shareholder ...