InsureTech

The Disruptors: Penny Searles from Smart Driver Club

The Disruptors is a series of features looking at new ideas within insurance, and talking to the movers and shakers bringing them to market. Car insurance is undergoing a rapid transformation. People are no longer […]

insurance marketing

O2 Drive Picks Up Road Safety Award for Young Driver Insurance

Insuring younger drivers has been a long standing problem within the motor insurance sector. The biggest advance of recent years has been telematics, the so-called `Black Box’ which records driver data and has proved invaluable […]

Household Insurance

RSA and Hood Team Up on More Efficient Water Leak Detection Project

Escape of water is one of the biggest concerns for insurers but a new report based on joint research undertaken by insurers RSA, insurance intermediary Hood Group and home automation technology company Lightwave RF, has revealed […]

Household Insurance

Pegasystems Response to FCA Investigation into Home Insurance

Responding to the announcement that the FCA is to carry out a detailed investigation into the cost of home insurance when it comes up for annual renewal, Tony Tarquini, Director of Insurance EMEA, Pegasystems, explains that […]

Motor Insurance

SmartDriverClub Expands Underwriting as it Goes For Growth

The conventional thinking in the insurance industry is that only younger drivers are keen on telematics. But several insurers and telematics specialists are proving that theory is wrong. Many drivers, of all ages, want to […]

Big Data

Octo Telematics Partners With Renault on In-Car Data Profiling

Octo Telematics has announced that it has entered into a global partnership with RCI Bank and Services, the finance company from Groupe Renault to provide its telematics services and advanced big data analytics to enhance […]

insurance marketing

Finance Durham Puts 150K into Honcho Insurance Start-Up

The Finance Durham fund, established by Durham County Council and managed by Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity firms, has helped raise £850,000, providing £150,000 of the total investment […]