Global insurance trends

Automated Compliance Sounds Cool – But Can RegTech Make It Happen?

Compliance is a boring word, let’s be honest. But non-compliance can mean big fines from the ICO, FCA or the EU and don’t think that just because the UK is technically leaving the EU, that […]

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CountingUp Launches Self Assessment Tax Calculation Tool

As the self-assessment tax deadline looms, and 3 million tax returns are not yet submitted, the worlds of banking and tax continue to collide to create new alternatives for small businesses.Ā Countingup, the UK’s number one […]

Insurance claims

Rising Insurance Costs Could End Road Racing in Ireland & Ulster

Pure road racing in Ireland and Ulster may come to an end soon, partly due to rising public liability insurance costs. In a statement released last November, the organisers of the Ulster GP said the […]

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About 100K Pure Electric Cars on UK Roads in 2020, Says DriveElectric

How fast is the UK electric car market growing? Well fairly rapidly it seems, if these estimates from the industry association are accurate. At least 98,500 new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will be registered in […]

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Fleet: Aberdeen Council Signs Up for 200 Renault Vans

Aberdeen Council has transformed its public sector fleet with the addition of over 200 Renault vans and conversions. Following a 12-month assessment programme that saw the Council undertake extended vehicle trials and compare Renault Pro+ […]

InsureTech

US Market: Socotra Raises Another $15m in Funding

Latest from the Business newswires; Socotra, a San Francisco-based company with the only cloud-native core platform that enables insurance companies to rapidly develop and deploy new products, announced today that it has raised $15.2 million […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

IRDAI Approval Shows New Ideas Will Transform India’s Insurance Market

The approval granted earlier in January 2020 to around 15 companies to develop new insurance products in India shows how the market there is changing fast. For decades Indian insurance was paper based, usually sold […]