{"id":73568,"date":"2026-05-15T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/ftse-100-listed-insurer-hiscoxs-shares-leap-amid-report-of-takeover-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:42","slug":"ftse-100-listed-insurer-hiscoxs-shares-leap-amid-report-of-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/ftse-100-listed-insurer-hiscoxs-shares-leap-amid-report-of-takeover-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100-listed insurer Hiscox\u2019s shares leap amid report of takeover bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Intact Financial Corp is said to be exploring offer, as London-listed Tate &amp; Lyle attracts US suitor<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Hiscox surged to record highs on Friday as it became the latest UK takeover target after a flurry of overseas bids for British businesses this week.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Intact Financial Corp, which provides property and casualty insurance, is said to be exploring a potential takeover of Lloyd\u2019s of London insurer Hiscox, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postonline.co.uk\/news\/7960372\/intact-exploring-hiscox-acquisition\">a report by the Insurance Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/15\/ftse-100-insurer-hiscox-shares-takeover-bid-intact-tate-lyle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Intact Financial Corp is said to be exploring offer, as London-listed Tate &amp; Lyle attracts US suitor Shares in Hiscox surged to record highs on Friday as it became the latest UK takeover target after a flurry of overseas bids for British businesses this week. Canada\u2019s Intact Financial Corp, which provides property and casualty &#8230; <a title=\"FTSE 100-listed insurer Hiscox\u2019s shares leap amid report of takeover bid\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/ftse-100-listed-insurer-hiscoxs-shares-leap-amid-report-of-takeover-bid\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FTSE 100-listed insurer Hiscox\u2019s shares leap amid report of takeover bid\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}