Household Insurance

Buzzvault Partnership with Munich Re on Home Insurance App

The rise of devices like smart fridges, TVs, cheap tablets, web-enabled security cameras, plus personal assistant gadgets like Amazon Echo and Google Home is bringing the Internet of Things to many homes across the UK. […]

Global insurance trends

Zurich’s Innovation Foundry Will Bring New Ideas to Insurance Market

Today sees the launch of Zurich’s UK Innovation Foundry. The new initiative which will tackle the ever changing customer demands as well as embedding a clear culture of innovation throughout the insurer – from the […]

InsureTech

Insurtech Co Eviid Expands With Sales Office in the Netherlands

Eviid (YRFree Technologies Ltd), a global InsurTech company based in London and Liverpool, is expanding its team and geographical footprint following a highly successful final quarter in 2017. Six new hires into its developer and […]

Business

Management Buy-Out at ProAktive Risk Group

A Yorkshire insurance and risk management consultancy has undergone a £2.0million management buy-out backed by debt funding from Mercia Fund Managers. ProAktive Risk Group, which is based in Doncaster and has an office in Sheffield, is […]

Big Data

Mattereum Launch Blockchain Insurance Identity Consortium

Mattereum, the company founded by the launch release coordinator of the blockchain platform Ethereum, Vinay Gupta, with co-founder Rob Knight, and InsurePal, the first decentralised social proof insurance service, have today announced the establishment of the Identity […]

Legal

Keoghs Completes Buyout of Hill Dickinson

Law firm Keoghs has completed its buyout of commercial firm Hill Dickinson’s insurance practice. Under the deal, 17 partners and 311 Hill Dickinson staff have moved to Keoghs. The buyout takes Keogh’s headcount to 1,740 people […]

Emerging Risk

Allianz Partner With Flock on Drone Insurance

Allianz Global and Corporate is teaming up with Flock, an app-based insurance provider, to promote drone insurance cover to a wider market. Drone use, especially in the commercial sector is growing rapidly, and has obvious […]