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Penny Black's Insurance Week
Penny gets highbrow in Manchester
Penny Black's Insurance Week
Penny gets All Shook Up at a broker presentation.
Penny speed meets ... Mihir Pandya, fraud manager, Allianz Insurance
Being an insatiable socialite, Penny Black is always eager to probe the personalities behind the professional veneer of her industry friends. What better way to squeeze in and share as many intimate revelations as possible than her very own 'speed…
Middle East guest blog: A silver lining?
The United Arab Emirates insurance industry went from denial of the financial crisis in 2008 to a rude awakening.
Penny Black's Insurance Week
Penny gets access all arias at the Royal Albert Hall
Penny Black's Insurance Week
Penny hears the latest on the government's plans for the Olympic Games
Penny speed meets ... Simon Drew, chief executive, Inter Resolve
Being an insatiable socialite, Penny Black is always eager to probe the personalities behind the professional veneer of her industry friends. What better way to squeeze in and share as many intimate revelations as possible than her very own 'speed…
Penny Black's Insurance Week
Penny goes football crazy in Norwich
Penny speed meets ... Gary Humphreys, group underwriting director, Markerstudy
Being an insatiable socialite, Penny Black is always eager to probe the personalities behind the professional veneer of her industry friends.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny has been following the BBC documentary The Tube
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny hears of more insurance-related woes, but this time it's no laughing matter.
Post Blog: Blackberry, Ratner and the lesson for insurers
The insurance industry can learn from October's Blackberry systems failure and Gerald Ratner's famous gaffe in 1991.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny's not sure she'd use a price comparison website with the name 'Quote Baby'
Post Blog: Redknapp, bad weather and PI policies
Alongside Harry Redknapp and adverse weather, the unlikely hot topic of aggregation clauses in professional indemnity policies is hotly debated in insurance circles.
Middle East Guest Blog: Firm Foundations
In earlier articles I have written that 2012 will be the year of reckoning following the 2008 financial crisis. Insurance is such that it takes time to unfold. Cyclicality is often blamed for the industry’s woes; and even more so in the Middle East…
Guest blog: Offer to sell?
I recently had an interesting debate with a seasoned insurance practitioner, the chief executive officer of an insurance company in the Middle East and Africa region.
Post Blog: Insurance must embrace the cloud
Organisations in the insurance sector don't have a reputation for changing their software very often.
Guest Blog: Middle East: Emerging or developed?
To understand where the Middle East insurance markets are heading you first have to look at where they are coming from.
Guest blog: Women the key to greater competitive edge
In a recent survey, the Employers' Association of Insurance Companies in Germany and the professional training body of the German insurance industry found that the boards of directors of German insurers are only 4% female.
Post Blog: The true value of awards
What's the value in winning an industry award?
Post Blog - Tales from the conference frontline
Anyone who has been through insurance conference season and lived to tell the tale knows exactly how much stamina it requires.
CII Blog: Tesco leaves carrot and stick on shelf
At an insurance conference I attended 10 years ago, delegates were given a challenge to "think like a retailer". Specifically, they were asked to consider what Tesco would be discussing at their annual conference. Store openings, layouts, product lines,…
Post Blog: Norwich Union brand to return to the UK market?
This week Aviva gave the biggest hint yet that RAC is for sale.
Post Blog - Six degrees of Kevin Bacon? The Rich List is two degrees of Henry Engelhardt
Sitting in my local barbers on Sunday awaiting my pre-British Insurance Brokers' Association Conference trim I soon became engulfed in this year's Rich List.