Insurance & Reinsurance

Allianz Completes Acquisition of Ensure Insurance

Allianz Group announced today the completion of the acquisition of 99.03 percent of the shares in Nigerian insurer Ensure Insurance plc from its core shareholder Greenoaks Global Holdings Ltd. (GGH). Ensure Insurance plc offers life and […]

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 […]

Business

Digital Risks Raises $2.5m in Fresh Investment Round

Digital Risks, the digital-first insurance provider for fast-growth technology and media businesses, has raised £2.25m in an investment round led by Concentric, with participation from Atami Capital, Seedcamp, London Co-Investment Fund and Beazley. The insurtech […]

Insurance Brokers

Echo Managed Services to Conduct Mystery Shopper Survey of Insurers

Consumer Intelligence has enlisted the expertise of Bristol-based specialist outsourcer Echo Managed Services to handle its outbound mystery shopper call service. The data analytics and insight company, which works on behalf of insurance and finance providers, approached […]

HR & Employment

ABI Signs Up For Inclusive Behaviours Policy in Workplace

The Association of British Insurers is among 50 insurers, brokers and industry bodies signing up to a new sector-wide Inclusive Behaviours Pledge this morning. Spearheaded by the CEOs of Zurich UK and Lloyd’s of London […]

HR & Employment

The New IT Jobs Frontier? AI Internships Available at EBI.AI

Artificial Intelligence is estimated to eradicate a great many jobs in the future, but is it so different from previous developments in IT or technology in general? Remember when the Cloud didn’t exist, offices had […]

Big Data

GDPR Clock is Ticking Says Beazley International – Fines Could Hit Hard

Raf Sanchez, Beazley International Breach Response Service Manager, comments ahead of the introduction of GDPR on 25 May: “Regulators and individuals are on the cusp of acquiring enhanced tools to hold organisations to account for poor […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Sedgwick Completes Cunningham Lindsey Purchase

Sedgwick has finalized the purchase of global loss adjusting, claims management and risk solutions firm Cunningham Lindsey and its subsidiaries. The combined organization—including the subsidiaries of Sedgwick, Vericlaim and Cunningham Lindsey, with select exceptions—will move […]