Insurtech
British Insurance Technology Awards shortlist 2024 announced
Today Insurance Post can reveal the shortlist for the 2024 British Insurance Technology Awards.
Insurtech mindset and legal landscape has changed
The legal sector is “ready for something different” and insurtech founders have shifted their mindset to disposal, according to Beyond Legal founder Nick Pester.
Insurtechs partner up to tackle ‘unaffordable’ SME cover
Blip’s CEO shares how the business has partnered with Wakam to “disrupt the status quo” and provide competitively priced and easy to understand small business insurance.
ManyPets co-founder to step down as Barile takes on group CEO role
Steven Mendel, CEO of ManyPets parent ManyGroup, has announced that he will step down from his role in mid-April and be replaced by current ManyPets UK CEO Luisa Barile.
Diary of an Insurer: Aurora’s Lauren Stables
Lauren Stables, head of digital trading at Aurora, works on the start-up MGA’s next product launch, shares ideas with brokers and providers while also mucking out her horses and playing ball with her four dogs.
Beazley’s cyber security arm; Brokerbility joins Insurtech UK; Lloyd’s confirms general counsel
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Deadline to enter British Insurance Technology Awards fast approaching
The countdown has started for you to get entries in for the inaugural 2024 British Insurance Technology Awards (BITAs).
Biba’s budget demands; Tokio Marine’s deal with Lavaretus; NFU’s first commercial head
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Amazon, Google, Tesla … is there a tech giant insurance cannot repel?
Content Director’s View: Following the quick and relatively painless death of the Amazon Insurance Store, Jonathan Swift reflects on why UK policyholders are often resistant to the charms of brands they would otherwise trust when it comes to buying…
Zego co-founder Harry Franks departs insurtech
Zego co-founder and former CEO Harry Franks has stepped away from the insurtech, Insurance Post can reveal.
UK bolsters ‘special relationship’ with Gibraltar
Melissa Collett, CEO of Insurtech UK, shares how Gibraltar’s “speed to market” offerings have won over UK insurtechs as they seek authorisation.
How Tupe is transforming insurance’s talent pool
Shaun Geils, global head of insurance at services group IQ-EQ, on the opportunity to reskill the sector and how lifting out and absorbing teams means firms can retain access to their existing crop of talent.
Why 2024 could be the year of insurtech consolidation
Data analysis: Francess Stebbing examines whether insurtech start-ups will struggle to find funding in 2024 and be forced to partner-up with traditional providers to achieve scale.
Extent of insurer’s digital FOMO revealed
Data analysis: Insurers think ‘everybody is doing better than us’ when it comes to digital transformation, a survey by Davies and Clearwater Analytics has shown.
Qover enters UK motor; ARAG seals DAS deal; OSB's Consumer Duty director
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hyperexponential’s CEO highlights next steps after $73m funding round
The insurtech’s CEO and co-founder shares how a “self-sustaining strong foundation” is essential to pique venture capitalists’ interest, and how the funds will fuel its international expansion.
Are you ready for commoditised insurance’s slow death to speed up?
Forget about products – Felix Schachter, insurance advisory leader at Tata Consultancy Services, says you need to focus on your customers and the value you can offer them to stay relevant in today’s rapidly evolving insurance market.
RSA and Brit partner; Policy Expert expands top team; Guidewire chair joins Hyperexponential
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
KPMG’s Evans expects Consumer Duty to evolve in 2024
Former Association of British Insurers director general Huw Evans, who will replace Trevor Jones as head of insurance at KPMG in April, expects the Financial Conduct Authority’s Consumer Duty requirements will "evolve" next year.
Why Keeping up with Kardashians is vital for marketing insurance
Analysis: Keeping up with Kardashian-like influencers is what it will take for general insurance providers to attract Gen Z to their products and services, writes Tom Luckham.
Three steps to implementing Chat GPT in insurance
Risto Rossar, founder and CEO of Insly, outlines the three steps insurers need to take to make the most of large language models like Chat GPT.
Most-read insurance stories in 2023 revealed
Like Cher, Insurance Post is turning back time to remember the industry Consumer Duty’s efforts, business interruption cases continuing to rumble on, developments at Direct Line, RSA’s personal lines exit, plus the other major insurance events of the…
Why dead-end jobs in insurance are a thing of the past
Shaun Geils, global head of insurance at IQ-EQ, considers how the adoption of new technology promises to transform the industry’s image from antiquated to cutting-edge.
MGA Review of the Year 2023
With large insurers and mainstream players pulling out of certain lines in 2023, and products reverting to the core areas, MGA chiefs plan to continue to step up and fill that gap in 2024.