Financial/Insurance Meetings

The Department of Labor recently issued a ruling that requires financial advisers who sell retirement products to act in their clients’ best interest (that is, as fiduciaries) when offering investment advice, disclose any conflicts of...

David Riederman, global sales director at Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, who handles the financial and insurance market for the company, recently won Hyatt’s 2015 Global Sales Leadership Director of the Year Award. The award was presented at Hyatt’s ann...

Katie Senkowski, CMP, manager, meetings and events, at AIG, needed to settle on a short list of hotels for an important upcoming event in Chicago. Her team was headed to the Windy City to do final site visits, but Senkowski needed to be on site w...

Katie Senkowski, CMP, manager, meetings and events, at AIG, needed to settle on a short list of hotels for an important upcoming event in Chicago. Her team was headed to the Windy City to do final site visits, but Senkowski needed to be on site w...

It’s time for the meetings industry to move from awareness to action in the global fight against human trafficking, says SITE, the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence, which last month held a joint webinar on the topic with ECPAT-USA...

Two regular data dumps reveal the current contrasting fortunes of domestic business travel and meetings...

Jean-Michel Petit was a venture capitalist vacationing with his son in Peru when they left their high-end hotel one day and spent the night with a local family, sharing lunch, dinner, and breakfast with them. At the end of the trip, Petit thought...

​Euromic used the occasion of IMEX Frankfurt 2016 to unveil new branding, which represents the broadening of its network around the world. The logo features seven “swooshes,” each in a different color, that together form an “e” and whose shape...