Insurance Regulation

Opinion: Streamlined Solution to GDPR Needed for the Insurance Industry

What is GDPR and why does it matter? Good question. General Data Protection Regulation is another piece of law from the EU, and it seeks to offer individuals extra privacy and rights over their personal […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Life Cover Start-Up Anorak Secures £4m Funding From Kamet Ventures/AXA

It seems almost every week there’s another twenty million or so being put into InsurTech projects, which shows the overall strength of the insurance industry sector, and its rapid transformation. InsurTech start-up Anorak has secured […]

Insurance Brokers

LexisNexis Rolls-Out Telematics App Platform for Insurers & Brokers

In a major development for the global telematics market, insurance providers building their own customer facing websites, apps and notifications for telematics programmes can now simply and cost-effectively plug into the LexisNexisĀ® Global Telematics Platform […]

Artificial Intelligence

Hastings Direct Chooses BAE Systems NetReveal Anti-Fraud Software

BAE Systems has won a new contract with Hastings Direct, a fast growing general insurance provider to the UK market. The deal will see BAE Systems deploy its fraud detection solution NetReveal to help the […]

Household Insurance

Pacifica Partners With Allianz on Boiler Breakdown Cover

Pacifica Group, one of the UK’s largest providers of home appliance, gas heating, inspection, repair and replacement services, is launching its 0800 REPAIR domestic boiler breakdown service on a nationwide scale, as a result of […]

Insurance Brokers

Bradford Based Church Insurer Looks at Potential Job Cuts

Bradford based Congregational Insurance is looking to slim down its workforce of between 60 and 70 people work at the company, which provides insurance for churches and church- owned properties. A source told the local […]

InsureTech

Guidewire Joins Plug & Play InsurTech Ecosystem

Guidewire Software, Inc, a provider of software products to Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers, today announced it has joined Plug and Play’s ecosystem to advance P&C insurance innovation and collaboration. Plug and Play is a […]

InsureTech

Marsh and Marshmallow Trademark Row Rumbles On

New insurance start-up Marshmallow thought they had a catchy and unique name when they founded their company back in 2016. But despite checking with lawyers, the brothers who founded Marshmallow – Oliver and Alex Kent-Braham […]