Opinion

The Interview: Layered Data Will Drive the Insurance Market in the 2020s

Insurance Edge went along to meet LexisNexis UK & Ireland MD, Jeffrey Skelton and CEO Bill Madison, to find out more about how data is truly driving most of the big changes transforming the insurance […]

Opinion

Is There a Value in Joining Insurance Industry Associations?

Associations are great. There we said it and here are three good reasons why your insurance related biz should get involved: The first is networking of course. As wonderful as Google is, you cannot get […]

Fraud

Consultancy.Org Estimates UK Suffers Over £1Billion in Serious Fraud

The latest from the Consultancy.org website makes for grim reading within the insurance sector. Fraud is still increasing, and cyber attacks are growing in severity and sophistication. After major cases of fraud declined drastically in […]

Global insurance trends

Deals: Acturis Acquires Add Value Assurances France

Acturis Group, the award-winning SaaS provider of insurance technology solutions, announced today that it has acquired Add Value Assurances the first and largest commercial eTrade platform in the French insurance market. This partnership gives Acturis […]

Legal

Verisk Launches Portal to Streamline RTA Small Claims Process

Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading global data analytics provider, today announced the launch of piCalculator Portal Edition (PE), a new version of its market-leading piCalculator solution specifically developed to support claims through the existing MOJ portal and the new […]

Global insurance trends

Insurtech Investment Still Booming, Says Willis Towers Watson Report

InsurTech investors worldwide executed the highest number of transactions, the highest number of property/casualty transactions, and the highest volume of Series B and Series C funding rounds during the first three months of 2019, according […]

InsureTech

Opinion: Wejo Purchase of Carjojo Highlights Value of Data to Insurers

Editor Alastair Walker looks at the implications of Wejo’s acquisition of Carjojo: Recently Cheshire based start-up Wejo bought an American company called Carjojo. No, this isn’t the opening line from a bizarre limerick, but an […]

Insurance Brokers

Honcho Gears Up for Launch with New Hires, Plus BIBA Membership

HONCHO, the UK’s first reverse auction marketplace for financial services, has announced a series of key developments in its path to launch. The business, which earlier this year successfully over-funded on Crowdcube to secure £830,000 of […]