Insurance & Reinsurance

Reinsurance: Willis Towers Publishes New Market Insights & Data

Strengthening primary insurance market conditions underpinned improvements to reinsurance prices, terms and conditions at the June 1, and July 1, 2019, renewals according to the latest 1st View renewals report from Willis Re, the reinsurance division of […]

Motor Insurance

Van Insurance Survey Reveals Diverse Range of Occupations

According to the latest findings from insurance price comparison website The Van Insurer the assumption that white vans are just for tradespeople or part-time hobbyists are misguided. In fact, when the UK’s workforce goes off duty, many […]

Opinion

Opinion: Is The Insurtech Bubble About to Burst?

Andre Symes from Genasys Technologies can see some worrying parallels between the current Klondike gold rush of investment that is piling into the insurtech sector, and the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s/early 2000s. Recently […]

Lloyd's/London Market

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

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 people as much as technology, was one of the key takeaways from ACORD’s […]

Opinion

Opinion: Three Tactics for Tackling Insider Cyber Threats

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 the tricky matter of data breaches and […]

Opinion

Opinion: Rare Classic Cars Need a Truly Specialised Insurance Valuation

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 and a limited edition, race version or prototype, […]

Opinion

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

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 have got very rich indeed, like infamous […]

Opinion

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

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 sector as it transforms for enduring relevance in the digital economy. […]