UK Insurance Trends

Banks Could Sell More Insurance Products: Tech & Training Are Key Factors

Can banks sell insurance? Of course, although the job is made far harder by UK banks insistence on closing down branches. But online sales could be handled better perhaps. Here’s some thoughts from Sollers; Banks […]

Opinion

CyberCube Offers Extra Insights on the CrowdStrike Incident

Some more insights from CyberCube on that CrowdStrike incident; The faulty CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor update and subsequent outage – the CrowdOut Event – underscore the potential forĀ Single Point of Failure (SPoF)Ā technology outages to impact the global […]

Insurance Regulation

FCA Hits Guaranty Trust Bank With £7.6m Fine

The latest action from the FCA; The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Guaranty Trust Bank (UK) Limited (GT Bank) Ā£7,671,800 for serious weaknesses in its anti-money laundering (AML) systems and controls between October 2014 […]

Insurance Regulation

Massive £107m FCA Fine For Santander, But Why No Arrests?

It’s all jolly japes with Ant & Dec in the adverts, but today’s news that Santander has been fined over Ā£100m for money laundering regs highlights the underlying problems in the UK banking system. Too […]

News

Embedded Insurance is Key to The Customer Journey

This latest piece is by Graham Gordon, Product & Strategy Director – P&C – Sapiens, and it takes a look at the Embedded insurance – where insurance products are bundled alongside the purchase of an […]