Insurance Regulation

FCA Updates Guidance on Vulnerable Customers

The FCA has set out new best practice guidance for firms to do more to protect vulnerable consumers. There’s some comment from Huntswood below too. More than 24 million people display one or more potential characteristics […]

Global insurance trends

Dubai Contines to Attract FinTech and Insurtech Invesment

Just in from the press office; Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading international financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, continued to drive the future of finance during the […]

Insurance Regulation

Finance/Insurance Staff Tick All The Right Boxes – True Story

Staff in the banking and financial services (FS) industry are three times more likely to follow processes “rigorously” than government workers, according to new research surveying senior decision-makers by Digital Intelligence company ABBYY. In fact, almost […]

News

FCA Takes Action Against Cypriot Investment Scammers

The FCA has taken action to stop four Cypriot investment firms from continuing to offer high risk contracts for difference (CFDs) to UK investors. It appears that these firms used unauthorised celebrity endorsements on social […]

Global insurance trends

Cryptoasset and Blockchain Insurance Needs More Capacity

Evertas, the world’s first cryptoasset insurance company, says the risks associated with cryptoassets are more complicated that the insurance sector perceives. These complexities have contributed to inconsistent underwriting based on factors outside of the risk such as […]

Flood Insurance

Willis Research Teams Up With Cloud to Street, On Flood Maps Project

The Willis Research Network (WRN) announces a new partnership with Cloud to Street, a global flood-mapping and monitoring platform designed for governments, humanitarian organisations and private sector actors to manage flood risk, underpin risk financing, […]

Insurance Regulation

FCA Issues New Rules on Consumer Debt During Corona Emergency

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today confirmed a package of targeted temporary measures to help people with some of the most commonly used consumer credit products. The move effectively gives the green light to […]

Conference report

Brexit: BIBA Launches Special Info Hub for Brokers

OK, it might still happen, we may exit the EU’s regulatory orbit. Highly unlikely given the money, power, constant legal actions and relentless media campaigning on the Remain side. Then there are the mundane compliance […]