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 […]

InsureTech

Marsh and Marshmallow Trademark Row Rumbles On

New insurance start-up Marshmallow thought they had a catchy and unique name when they founded their company back in 2016. But despite checking with lawyers, the brothers who founded Marshmallow – Oliver and Alex Kent-Braham […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Opinion: LV Warning to Double Income Households – Be Prepared

Over three million working couples are classed as ‘double income, no option’ (DINOs), which means they are vulnerable to financial ruin if one of the two loses their earnings. Head of Life Marketing, Justin Harper […]

Business

BIBA to Showcase Changing Insurance Broker Landscape via ITN News

The insurance broker business in the UK is changing fast. Not only have many of the traditional High Street brokerage shops closed their doors, but even the 1990s internet/call centre model is undergoing rapid transformation. […]

Business

Gauntlet Staffers Set Up McCarron-Coates AR Brokerage

Two directors of Leeds-based Gauntlet Group bought into the group’s Appointed Representative opportunity so much that they’ve decided to become Appointed Representatives themselves.  In the true spirit of the Remington advertising strap line of the […]

InsureTech

Laka Aim to Shake Up Bike Insurance Sector, Backed by Zurich

Laka, formerly Insure a Thing, is challenging the conventional insurance model by offering a truly disruptive bike insurance product, co-built and financially backed by Zurich. This really is cycle insurance with a difference, because Laka will only […]

Insurance Brokers

SSP SmartQuote Picks Up Insurtech Award

SSP is delighted that Legal & General has won a Digital and Insurtech Award for SmartQuote, the innovative digital solution powered by SSP Intelligent Quotes Hub (IQH). Legal & General received the Insurance Technology/Digital Project […]

InsureTech

Gig Economy Pay-As-You-Go Insurance Start-Up Secures More Funding

Pay-as-you go insurance provider Zego has raised £6m in series A funding from Balderton Capital,  as the startup gets ready to launch new products for flexible workers employed in the sharing economy. Clerkenwell-based Zego, which […]