Emerging Risk

Call for Tighter Regulation of Comparison Websites in Construction Sector

Government officials have thanked an insurance industry leader for raising concerns about the effects of price comparison websites in the UK construction industry. But officials from HM Treasury stopped short of agreeing to Mark Herbert’s […]

Administration

Insurance News: ABI Welcomes State Street Global Advisors

State Street Global Advisors has become the ABI’s latest associate member. State Street Global Advisors is the $2.7 trillion investment management arm of State Street Corporation. The ABI’s associate membership category has been developed to […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker Calls for Price Comparison Site Regulation in Construction Sector

Price comparison websites should be prevented from offering quotes to small businesses in the construction sector, a leading insurance broker has warned. Mark Herbert, MD at Construction Insure, says the use of price comparison websites by […]

Insurance Regulation

Opinion: Stop Misleading Drivers Over Autonomous Vehicle Capability

Driverless cars is one of those buzzword phrases which domiates the automotive media right now – but how close are we to truly autonomous cars? Not very, according to Thatcham Research, and we have posted […]

Conference report

BIBA 2018 Manchester: Conference and Exhibitor Preview

Insurance-Edge takes a look at what’s happening this week at BIBA, the biggest event for insurance brokers in the UK. Arguably the most important feature at BIBA is the Hackathon, where some of the keenest […]

Fraud

Digital Intel Will Help Managers With Compliance Issues

A new ‘digital intelligence’ service is helping banks and financial institutions to meet the challenges of the new Senior Manager regime. The service from London-based tech company Neotas provides a way for employers to evidence […]

Big Data

Allianz Receive Approval for Global Data Handling Policy

Allianz Group recently received approval of its Binding Corporate Rules from the EU-mandated Bavarian Data Protection Authority, BayLDA. Binding Corporate Rules or “BCRs” were developed by the European Union to allow multinational corporations to make […]

Global insurance trends

Zurich Assures UK Customers That Brexit Will Actually Change Very Little

Zurich are upbeat about the UK insurance landscape after Brexit, and have posted a statement on their website, to reassure customers that in the short term at least, there will be very little change in […]