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Ghost broker busting – how can they be blasted off social media?
Content Director's View: If there’s something weird selling motor cover and it don’t look good … why do so many young drivers fall for ghost brokers on social media and what can be done to bust them, asks Insurance Post's Jonathan Swift.
Ex-BGL CEO Thompson joins Open GI as chair
Former BGL Insurance CEO Peter Thompson has joined Open GI as the organisation’s chair.
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Insurers continue to face the challenge of distinguishing and differentiating themselves on anything other than being among the cheapest providers.
2024 European Insurance Technology Awards winners revealed
Today, Insurance Post is delighted to announce the winners of 2024 European Insurance Technology Awards.
What brokers can do to get cyber insurance on the agenda
Trade Voice: Stefan Daines, broking director at Daines Kapp and member of the CII’s Broking Community board, looks at what brokers can do to combat staggeringly low uptake of cyber insurance and worrying misconceptions around the product.
AI insurtechs dominate Q3 funding
Artificial intelligence-centred insurtechs dominated funding in the third quarter of 2024, securing $897.4m (£691.2m) across 29 deals, according to Gallagher Re.
Esure transformation leads to layoffs for long-serving staff
Esure cut jobs of long-serving, frontline colleagues during its transformation programme due to digital efficiencies resulting in customer behaviour changes.
Upcoming webinar: How is the delegated authority business changing in the digital age?
With The Lloyd’s Market Association crunching the findings of its market-wide consultation on the new Computable Binding Authority Agreement (CBAA) model, bordereaux management is entering a new era.
Q&A: Mike Brockman, ThingCo
ThingCo founder and CEO Mike Brockman sits down with Insurance Post to talk about why the business has recently been in 'stealth mode,' how he hopes telematics can appeal to a wider audience, and potentially new markets he hopes to expand into.
FCA’s Brewis urges use of sandboxes to aid innovation
The Financial Conduct Authority’s director of insurance, Matt Brewis, has urged the insurance industry to utilise the regulators innovation sandbox, because it wants to work together with the industry to facilitate innovation.
AI should be used to fight crash for cash fraudsters
The increase in crash for cash incidents involving motorbikes is far more dire than it initially seems, warns Roi Amir, CEO of insurance technology company Sprout.ai, who argues the solution is to fight artificial intelligence with AI.
Big Interview: Paul Brand, Convex
Paul Brand, group CEO of Convex, sits down with Harry Curtis to discuss the insurer and reinsurer’s plans to hit and surpass $5bn GWP, the difficulties of technology adoption, and why he thinks current market conditions are “brittle”.
CrowdStrike event focuses minds on cyber ‘grey rhinos’
July’s CrowdStrike outage has trained the attention of companies buying cyber insurance and the industry itself on the spectre of systemic, high-impact events with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Allianz, RSA and Zurich to debate threat of AI in insurance fraud
With digital manipulation threatening to put additional pressure on claims handlers, as deception becomes harder to spot.
How insurers can navigate the threat of biased AI
Dean Standing, chief customer officer of consultancy Sagacity, outlines why insurers should take more care when handling customer data to train artificial intelligence pricing models.
ICEYE insurance head reveals plans for nat cat solutions
Stephen Lathrope, global head of insurance at space technology company ICEYE, has outlined the company’s plan to provide solutions targeted at a range of natural catastrophe perils.
Radar satellites promise to transform insurer flood responses
Space technology company ICEYE’s constellation of radar-equipped satellites gives insurers the ability to have a more informed response to floods just hours after they occur, its global head of insurance Stephen Lathrope has said.
Verisk London 2024: Key takeaways
In the fourth and final video recorded at the Verisk Insurance Conference in London, Insurance Post content director Jonathan Swift spoke to delegates and speakers about the lessons they learned at this year’s event.
Axa XL extends cyber cover to internal GenAI risks
Axa XL has extended its cyber insurance coverage to emerging generative artificial intelligence risks, but risks associated with popular GenAI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot remain out of scope.
Verisk London 2024: Evolving fraud trends
In the third in a series of videos recorded at the Verisk Insurance Conference in London, Insurance Post editor Emma Ann Hughes met with industry experts to discuss fraud trends.
Sprout AI targeting one billion customers by 2030
Roi Amir, CEO of Sprout AI, said the firm is looking to reach one billion customers within five to seven years, and confirmed when the company will expand into pet and travel.