Artificial Intelligence

SmilePass Offers Biometric Checking Service for Insurance Sector

The battle against fraud never stops for the UK insurance industry, with our increasingly digital economy offering new ways for fraudsters to obtain cover using false details, make bogus claims or generate fake policy documents. […]

Household Insurance

Buzzvault Partnership with Munich Re on Home Insurance App

The rise of devices like smart fridges, TVs, cheap tablets, web-enabled security cameras, plus personal assistant gadgets like Amazon Echo and Google Home is bringing the Internet of Things to many homes across the UK. […]

Household Insurance

New Start-Up Homelyfe Launches App Based Buildings & Contents Insurance

Homelyfe has launched its buildings and contents online offering, adding to its home buying insurance product, which was launched last year. The Homelyfe venture was started by Peter Goodman and Andy Craven and is an […]

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 […]

Motor Insurance

Honcho App Start-Up Raises 150K from Finance Durham Fund

A new app designed to reduce insurance costs for motorists has successfully secured a conditional investment of £150,000 from the Finance Durham Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, pending a successful fund raise on CrowdCube. […]

Household Insurance

Canopy Aim to Make RentPassport App a Gamechanger in Home Insurance

Tenants get a distinctly second class deal in Britain. No matter how diligent you are about paying rent on time, or how detailed your home contents policy is, or how many years NCD you have, […]