Business

Accenture Report on Insurtech Investment Shows UK in Strong Position

Insurtech is THE buzzword across the insurance sector right now. Big companies are teaming up with disruptive start-ups, or acquiring smaller companies with niche expertise. Regulation such as GDPR is changing the way insurers, and […]

InsureTech

Anti-Fraud News: WeSee To Compete at Pitch Palace 9.0

WeSee, the deep learning-based computer vision innovator that can detect suspicious behaviour, has been selected to participate in Pitch@Palace 9.0, the initiative founded by The Duke of York in 2014 as a platform to amplify […]

Household Insurance

ABI Estimates Average UK Home Has 35K of Contents – Often Under-Insured

The latest survey by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) concludes that the average UK home has around £35,000 worth of contents, from jewellery to electronic gadgets, bicycles to power tools. The ABI also estimates […]

Emerging Risk

Allianz Partner With Flock on Drone Insurance

Allianz Global and Corporate is teaming up with Flock, an app-based insurance provider, to promote drone insurance cover to a wider market. Drone use, especially in the commercial sector is growing rapidly, and has obvious […]

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 LexisNexis® Global Telematics Platform […]

Household Insurance

InsurTech Specialist Canopy Strengthens Advisory Board

InsureTech innovator and rental property market disrupter Canopy, has today announced details of its first Chairman, Board of Directors & Advisory Board. With a highly successful track record as non-exec chairman, advisor and mentor to […]

insurance marketing

Zurich Chooses Medallia to Track Customer Experience & Feedback

Customer retention is one of those bits of jargon which doesn’t excite many people in the insurance industry. But it should, because it can cost millions to keep advertising and marketing to win new customers, […]

Artificial Intelligence

Could AI Facial Recognition Combat Insurance Fraud?

Insurance fraud is big business. Last year, some 125,000 claims were detected in the UK, worth £1.3 billion, according to research by the Association of British Insurers. But could a new generation of AI (Artificial […]