Steve White
PostCast - Issue 1 - 1/8 August
The team discuss the news, features and interviews from the 1/8 August edition of Post Magazine.
Interview: Biba's Steve White: Bold beginnings
From ‘shouting’ at the regulator to outlining a new segmentation strategy, new Biba chief executive Steve White has already ruffled more than a few feathers in his first 100 days in the hot seat. He tells Post he’s started as he means to go on...
Regulator FCA faces call for "pay to play" to be investigated
Regulator faces calls for ‘pay to play’ to be investigated.
Expertise in Action: Professionalism: Testing, testing
Testing, testing
Customers paying for FSCS levies on brokers via ‘administration’ charges
Contributions to compensation scheme putting strain on brokers’ profitability.
Payment Protection Insurance: Paying the price
With payment protection insurance complaints putting a seemingly never-ending financial strain on the industry, can the product ever bounce back?
Brokers selling add-ons contacted by FCA as regulator begins crackdown
Signs the Financial Conduct Authority’s scrutiny of insurance add-ons is underway have been witnessed by brokers that have already been contacted by the regulator.
Editor's comment: Time for a new strategy
Last week some new battle lines were drawn, while others pulled back their troops, took stock of the situation and dug new trenches.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 23 May 2013
The annual British Insurance Brokers’ Association conference after-party can transform even the most mild-mannered broking boss into an incoherent, staggering shell of a man.
Biba 2013: Day one of BibaFever at Excel Arena
As the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) conference at the Excel Arena in London kicks off, Insurance Age and Post have teamed up with LV to bring you the definitive online coverage of the event with the video series #BIBAFever.
Countdown to Biba 2013: #BIBAFever episode one
With days to go until the British Insurance Brokers’ Association conference at the Excel Arena in London, Insurance Age and Post have teamed up with LV to bring you the definitive online coverage of the event with the video series #BIBAFever.
Broking Supplement: Comment - Steve White
Biba's new chief executive Steve White looks forward to the challenges he will face in his new role.
ABI, Biba launch best practice telematics guidance
New guidance for insurers on pay-as-you-drive cover has been released by the Association of British Insurers and the British Insurance Brokers’ Association
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny recently had the pleasure of catching up with newly appointed British Insurance Brokers’ Association chief executive Steve White, hoping to gain an insight into his plans to change the sector for the better.
Regulation: A heavy crown
The downfall of the Financial Services Authority was met with resounding support. However, as its successors take over sceptics ask whether the twin peak model might create more discontent in the industry.
FCA business model met with trepidation in insurance industry
Fears have been voiced by the insurance industry that the new regulators will intrude too much into the commercial sphere and that having two bodies will cause inefficiency.
View from the Top: Get behind Steve
Congratulations to Steve White on his appointment to the role of chief executive at the British Insurance Brokers Association.
Editor's comment: Let us pray
Last week the Catholic Church took five votes over two days in the conclave to choose Pope Francis I to replace Pope Benedict XVI.
Is Biba’s new chief executive the White man for the job?
Improving the broking sector’s public profile, representing smaller firms and standing up to the incoming financial regulator are among the early challenges facing incoming British Insurance Brokers’ Association chief executive Steve White.
Penny Black's insurance week
It was all go last Friday as the Post team frantically tried to track down brokers willing to comment on the appointment of Steve White as Biba’s top dog.
White replaces Galbraith as Biba CEO
Outgoing Biba chief executive Eric Galbraith is to be replaced by the industry body’s head of compliance and training Steve White.