Insurtech
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Climate change. Inflation. demanding consumers. regulation. M&A activity. Insurance looks nothing like it did a decade – or even five years ago.
Aviva wins TSB tender; Gallagher Re to recruit 40; Pine Walk Capital launches MGA; and Beazley launches Crypto Guard
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Howden acquires Tiger Risk; JMG buys GS Group; Allianz and Ifed secure convictions for fraudsters; and First Central in CMT tie-up
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Aviva joins Sign Live; Clear Group acquires Centor; Canopius reorganises underwriting team; LV steps up digital innovation with tie-up; and Questgates buys again
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Spotlight: Cyber - SME cyber – Size does not matter in cyber attacks
A serious misconception that cyber-criminals only target large organisations means that SMEs have been slower to adopt cyber insurance than large corporates. However, the surge in attacks on SMEs over the past two years is changing this view. Valerie…
Aviva reports 13% spike in fraud; Accredited hails £2bn Policy Expert deal; Urban Jungle to recruit 100; and PRA warns insurers of ‘significant headwinds’ over climate change
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Capgemini: only 8% of insurers 'Resilience Champions'; Allianz mulls Home & Legacy disposal; CII reports £4.4m deficit; and Questgates buys
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Getsafe adds buildings insurance in the UK as it targets the top digital spot
Insurtech firm Getsafe is aiming to be one of Europe’s leading digital insurers as it launches buildings insurance to complete its home insurance proposition in the UK.
Insurance Post TV: Price walking special – what impact has the FCA ban had on the personal lines market?
Insurance Post reveals the latest episode of its ‘magazine-style’ television show.
Blog: Why diversity matters in digital insurance innovation
Rocio Garcia, user interface lead at Instanda, explains the importance of diversity in digital insurance innovation.
Video Q&A: Prime Disaster Response directors Ciaran and Laurence O’Grady
As the business celebrates its tenth anniversary, Prime Disaster Response founders Ciaran and Laurence O’Grady spoke to Insurance Post content director Jonathan Swift about the growth of the business.
Interview: James Blackham, By Miles
James Blackham, CEO of By Miles, talks to Jen Frost about why the regulator had to step in over dual pricing and why usage-based insurance is the future
Qlaims appoints David Williams as NED
David Williams has joined managing general agent and insurtech Qlaims as a non-executive director.
Webinar: Last chance to sign up to watch Allianz, Chaucer and WTW discuss how technology can help insurers meet customer expectations in the digital age
There has been a lot of discussion around digital acceleration over recent years, with the pandemic playing an undoubted role in escalating customer expectations as to how businesses engage and service them. Although often described as a “distressed…
Analysis: Unstable firms are falling off the Rock
Post looks at a series of insurer failures in Gibraltar – and asks what the future will look like for existing and new entrants.
2021 insurtech funding breaks record; Aviva in Tractable tie-up; Dive-In Festival theme announced and Lloyd's syndicate offers adjusters green bonus
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Price walking ban pushes motor premiums up; Zurich opens branch; Handl acquires IPRS; Mason Owen MBO; and under 30s telematics sales rise
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Digital Bar Quarterly: What does it take to be ‘The Insurer of the Future?’
Having attended Insurtech Insights Europe 2022 last month, Altus Consulting business executive Mike Daly shares some thoughts including the possibility we are at a ‘tipping point’ in terms of someone creating ‘the Netflix of Insurance’.
LV, Axa and Keoghs smash fraud ring; Flood Re launches Build Back Better; Howden buys SPF; Go Insur backs start-up Insuristic
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Q&A: Mark Bower-Dyke and Crescens George, Wiser Academy
Insurance specialist learning provider Wiser Academy recently gained an ‘Outstanding’ award from Ofsted. Crescens George, CEO, and Mark Bower-Dyke, chairman, tell Post about the importance of formal qualifications to gain entry to the industry, and their…
Revolut in Allianz tie-up; AUB confirms Tysers talks; QBE poses resilience challenge; and Rear’s SPAC Financials Acquisition Corp to raise £150m via listing
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Clyde & Co merges with BLM; Beazley unveils underwriting structure; KGM buys Eridge Underwriting Agency; Blanc becomes WWF ambassador; and Swiss Re warns of global protection gap
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
APRIL FOOLS' DAY: Qumble in 'unbrielievable' industry first with parametric dairy product
Exclusive: Insurtech Qumble is set to bring its innovative parametric cheese cover to the mass market – both on earth and the moon – over the next quarter.
UK's first public insurtech Ondo expects to break even within two years
Ondo, which became the first UK insurtech to go public last week, expects to break even within the next two years, its CEO Craig Foster has told Post.