Allianz Opens Three Innovation Centres; Travel, Health and Assistance
Leveraging its knowledge and expertise in assistance, automotive, health and travel protection, Allianz Partners further embraces technological disruption and redefines [...]
Insurance & Reinsurance
Broker News: Acord Streamlines Testing Process on Data Standards
ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, is reducing the complexity of connecting trading partners as they use ACORD Standards for the first time, or [...]
Mergers & Acquisitions Drop in EU, But Accelerate Across Rest of World
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the global insurance industry rose in the first half of 2018 with 186 completed deals worldwide, up from 180 in the second half of 2017, [...]
April UK Withdraws From Private Healthcare Market
Private healthcare insurance provider April UK is to withdraw from the market. The company will not accept renewals, or write any new business and a spokesperson for April UK [...]
Allianz Completes Acquisition of Ensure Insurance
Allianz Group announced today the completion of the acquisition of 99.03 percent of the shares in Nigerian insurer Ensure Insurance plc from its core shareholder Greenoaks [...]
Insurance Sector Stands to Lose Billions from UK Govt Soft Brexit Policy
The Brexit negotiations continue to drag on, with absolutely no sign of any clarity on future trade in goods and services. Control of trade is of course the whole point of [...]
Liberty Mutual Rebrand Includes New Italian Operations
Liberty Specialty Markets has rebranded its reinsurance division as Liberty Mutual Re and launched a reinsurance operation in Italy for the first time. The rebrand is [...]
Opinion: Voice Activated Insurance is Set to Become the Norm
Will voice recognition tech – such as Amazon Echo, Siri and Google Duplex – become the new normal for the insurance industry? The future of policy inception, [...]