Financial Services

Australian car insurance provider Bingle has agreed to extend its joint major sponsorship of Australian rules football club Richmond for a further three years until 2016.

Asia-Pacific insurance provider AIA has reached a deal with Tottenham Hotspur to become the English Premier League football club’s shirt sponsor for cup games during the 2013-14 season.

US financial services company Northwestern Mutual has reached a deal with the Tiger Woods Foundation to become the title sponsor of its 15th annual World Challenge golf event.

US financial services company Wells Fargo has bolstered its backing of North American football by sponsoring the Mexican national team’s annual tour of the United States through 2016.

Global risk management and insurance firm Aon has extended its partnership with American football’s NFL to take in the 2013 and 2014 editions of the league’s International Series in London.

German 1.Bundesliga football club Bayer 04 Leverkusen has signed a two-year extension to its sponsorship deal with insurance group DEVK Versicherungen.

Not-for-profit credit co-operative Scott Credit Union has reached a three-year sponsorship deal to become the official credit union of NFL American football team the St Louis Rams.

English rugby league team Bradford Bulls has confirmed UK business-to-business trade exchange Bartercard as an official partner from the 2014 Super League season.

US Major League Soccer franchise Sporting Kansas City has entered into a multi-year commercial partnership with UMB Bank, a subsidiary of American financial services group UMB Financial Corporation.

English Premier League football club Manchester United has reached an agreement to make AFB its official credit card partner in Kenya.

The England & Wales Cricket Board has announced banking group NatWest as its title sponsor for Twenty20 cricket at international, county and recreational level under a new four-year agreement.

Paris Saint-Germain has agreed a three-year sponsorship deal with MoneyGram, while the French Ligue 1 football club is also reportedly seeking to significantly increase the value of its kit partnership with Nike.

The Swiss Ice Hockey Federation has signed up Zurich as an official sponsor through to 2017.

Wells Fargo has been unveiled as the exclusive retail banking and commercial lending sponsor of Major League Soccer, the top division of football in North America.

MetLife has agreed a four-year deal to become an official marketing partner of golf’s PGA Tour and Champions Tour.

The Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament has secured two more commercial partners for its inaugural edition.

English Premier League football club Manchester City has announced a new partnership with online trading service company Gain Capital.

British conglomerate Virgin and Canadian financial service company Scotiabank have been announced as tournament partners for the inaugural Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition.