Emerging Risk

Dixons Carphone Warehouse Data Breach Highlights Risks For Insurance Sector

The news that the Dixons Carphone Warehpuse group suffered a data breach involving almost 6 million accounts highlights the huge risks in the growing cyber insurance sector. Although Dixons-Carphone (DC) say that no fraud has […]

Insurance Brokers

Ecclesiastical Offers Brokers Guide on Education Sector Risk

A new guide to help brokers talk through existing and emerging risks with independent school bursars has been released by specialist insurer, Ecclesiastical. Ecclesiastical’s Education Insight guide provides advice and guidance to help address the […]

Conference report

BIBA Feedback: Talking Risk Score, Hackathon and NASA with James Burton

After all the excitement of BIBA last month, Insurance-Edge thought it would be the right time to catch up with James Burton, Director of Product Management at LexisNexis. The insurance software specialist company were heavily involved […]

Big Data

GDPR Clock is Ticking Says Beazley International – Fines Could Hit Hard

Raf Sanchez, Beazley International Breach Response Service Manager, comments ahead of the introduction of GDPR on 25 May: “Regulators and individuals are on the cusp of acquiring enhanced tools to hold organisations to account for poor […]

Big Data

Sopra Steria Sign Software Deal with Co-op Insurance

Sopra Steria has today announced a new application management contract with Co-op Insurance. The master service agreement (MSA) provides not just Co-op Insurance, but all members of the wider Co-op business, one of the world’s […]

InsureTech

ThingCo Chooses Amazon Web Services

Insurtech start-up, ThingCo, has become one of the first disruptors in the insurance sector to exploit the capabilities of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a fully serverless implementation. ThingCo launched in January 2018 to build […]