Opinion

The New Fraud Frontier; Social, Silos, Consortiums & More

As the insurance sector grapples with all the various impacts of the global pandemic, evolving consumer demand and broader social change, criminals are exploiting those same factors to create ever more sophisticated ways to defraud […]

News

New Report Looks at Cyber Risks for Start-Ups & Entrepreneurs

While cybersecurity may not seem the most urgent priority for entrepreneurs and their start-up business ventures, increasing the emphasis placed on cybersecurity reaps rewards as the business matures. This is the key message from cyber […]

News

Totus Re Calls For UK Govt to Address All Risks, Not Just Covid-19

Totus Re urges the UK government and insurance industry to consider the whole panoply of perils catalogued by the National Risk Register rather than focusing solely on pandemic risk. Commercial insurance will only ever be […]

Insurance Brokers

Get Three Months Free Trial of NFU Mutual’s Cyber Insurance Cover

Commercial insurer NFU Mutual has launched a free three-month cyber helpline service for its small business and small farm customers. The benefit will be available to existing customers, as well as to new policy holders. […]

UK Economy

Aegon Warns on Financial Scammers Targeting Savers & Investors

Almost 3 million people in the UK have fallen for a financial scam after being approached by a fraudster since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, according to Aegon’s survey into the behaviour of savers […]

News

Pen Underwriting Teams Up With Police on Cyber Security for SMEs

Pen Underwriting has become the first insurance provider to partner with the Police Digital Security Centre (PDSC) on a new national certification scheme designed to boost the cyber security resilience of small businesses in the […]

InsureTech

Opinion: Kovrr CEO Highlights Potentially Huge Cyber Risk

Covid-19 has changed everything for insurance companies. There’s the fall-out over rejected Pandemic claims, processing millions of refunds for car insurance customers and then the working from home revolution, which looks set to sweep away […]