News

Zurich Ramps Up Marine Insurance Platform

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is accelerating the broader roll-out of a new marine insurance platform for small and medium cargo, following its successful introduction in selected markets around the world. The Zurich Swift Insurance Platform […]

News

GoCompare Warns on Phishing & Corona Related Online Scams

GoCompare is urging people to stay safe online as official statistics show a dramatic increase in phishing and online shopping scams, with cybercriminals looking to capitalise on coronavirus fears. According to Action Fraud’s figures for […]

Insurance Brokers

Corona: Brightside Switches Completely to Home Working Operation

Brightside Group is in the final stages of moving the vast majority of its 500-strong team to a home working operation in order to stay open for personal and commercial business, according to chief operating […]

News

AAAtraq Supports Team BRIT Le Mans Challenge

An innovative digital accessibility compliance insurtech company, launched in 2019, has become the latest organisation to pledge support for Team BRIT. AAAtraq (www.aaatraq.com), based in London, is an automated compliance identification and management Service (CIMS), […]

News

Is Remote Working Increasing Phishing & Cyber Attacks? Hell Yes

Beazley’s in-house team of breach experts, Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services, reported the number of ransomware attack notifications against clients increased by 131% compared to 2018. With the growth in frequency, the sums demanded by […]

InsureTech

US News: Coterie Raises $8.5m to Boost Development of Commercial Lines

Coterie is pleased to announce that, in our continuing efforts to modernize the way commercial insurance is built and distributed, we’ve closed an oversubscribed Series A financing round totaling $8.5 million from RPM Ventures, Allos […]

News

Need a Helping Hand? ThingCo’s Jonny Valentine is On The Case

This we like, this is brilliant thinking; Jonathon Valentine, (pictured below) CTO at insurtech ThingCo has launched The Helping Hand Project to provide a secure way of connecting those in isolation with volunteer groups/foodbanks/take-away services […]

Opinion

Automation is The Key When it Comes to Remote Working

Operational stresses caused by Covid-19 and remote working practices have put technology under the spotlight in the insurance sector, and clearly this is not a drill, says DQPro Co-Founder Nick Mair. Technology, data and particularly […]