News

Travelex Attack Highlights Need For Cyber Cover & Expert Advice

Updated 13.01.2020: Here’s the latest from Reuters, as Travelex gets back on track, but will its customers be so keen to trust them with their money and their data in future? Foreign exchange firm Travelex […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker Update: CFC Launches New Free Tool to Help Sell Cyber Cover

Selling cyber cover to company directors, Tech Officers or start-ups can be a difficult process. But what if we told you that there’s a set of free tools available that can assist your brokerage in […]

Opinion

Opinion: Tech Can Help Insurers & Brokers Assess Climate Change Risks

This latest Opinion piece is by Gareth Williams, CEO of Yellow Dog, and it looks at how technology can offer everyone in the insurance industry a better understanding of the risks posed by climate change. […]

Opinion

Brokers; Know Your Enemy, Raise Your Cyber Game – Win Better Rates

In this latest Opinion piece, Cate Wright, Global Head of Customer Success, Financial Services, at BAE Systems, takes a look at fraud from a broker or MGA point of view. It’s always good to identify […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Lloyd’s Market: LMG Launches EventWatch Service

As Hurricane Dorian tracks steadily towards the USA, it’s useful to know that the LMG have launched a 24/7 events monitoring service via smartphone app, which will be of interest to underwriters, MGAs and brokers. […]

Technology

Tech: Avantia Updates HomeProtect Retail Pricing Model

Avantia, the technology-enabled insurer behind HomeProtect, today announces a major update to its retail pricing model: employing Bayesian optimisation as an alternative to traditional A/B testing.  The pioneering new approach uses machine learning to more quickly identify the […]

InsureTech

Start-Ups: Hero Labs Hires New CTO, Looks to Bring EOW Product to Market

Hero Labs, the London based start-up with a mission to solve real-life problems with truly smart technology, has named Daniel Knight as its new chief technology officer. Knight brings expertise from Samsung SmartThings and award-winning […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker Update: Questgates Warns on Highways England Fixed Costs Plan

Leading specialist loss adjuster QuestGates has issued a word of warning to the insurance industry that the new Highways England process for dealing with ‘Green Claims’ shows a hardening of approach by the government company […]