insights

Events: ACORD Meet-Up Looks at Reinsurance, From Placing to Settlement

22 June 2019 // 0 Comments

Straight-through processing is the only viable long-term solution to tackling the re/insurance industry’s ongoing challenge with out-of-control expense ratios, but is about [...]

Opinion: Three Tactics for Tackling Insider Cyber Threats

14 June 2019 // 0 Comments

In this piece, Mark Rayner, Head of Financial Services Consulting at BAE Systems offers some useful advice for those in the insurance industry, and the wider workplace, on [...]

Opinion: Rare Classic Cars Need a Truly Specialised Insurance Valuation

13 June 2019 // 0 Comments

In this Opinion piece Bernard Hayden, Head of Risk Management at Azur, looks at avoiding underinsurance in the collectable car market. Classic car values are always changing [...]

Opinion: UK Govt Wants to Replace Buy-to-Let Landlords With Companies

9 June 2019 // 0 Comments

Straight talking from the Editor’s laptop: The last twenty years or so has seen an explosion in property prices, and the buy-to-let rentals market. Quite a few people [...]

Lloyd’s Future: Will The Digital Transformation Happen Fast Enough?

29 May 2019 // 0 Comments

The Future at Lloyd’s prospectus presents more questions than answers according to DevOpsGroup CEO James Smith. Here, he outlines key considerations for the insurance [...]

Industry Insights: 42% of Income Protection Consumers Choose Fully Comp

26 May 2019 // 0 Comments

Comprehensive cover was the leading consumer choice in the UK in 2018, accounting for 42% of income protection purchases, according to GlobalData, a leading data and [...]

Opinion: FCA Business Plan Will Prompt Big Changes in GI Market

26 May 2019 // 0 Comments

What does the FCA’s new Business Plan mean for GI? In this Opinion piece, Mark McDonald, Consultant at Altus, looks at the possible directions that general insurance is [...]

Opinion: Agile Tech is The Key to Fighting Insurance Fraud

20 May 2019 // 0 Comments

In this piece, Steve Paton, Head of Anti-Fraud Services (EU), Verisk Claims takes a look at how fraud is evolving and how the switch away from legacy systems to something [...]