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News analysis: Brokers back Biba at manifesto launch
Members and wider market broadly welcome trade body’s manifesto priorities for 2017
InsurTech Futures: Cuvva launches new car insurance product
Product aimed at infrequent drivers.
Chris Blackham and John Sims team up with Jeremy Guscott on broking venture
New offering targeting brokers who want to run their own business.
Broker Apprentice 2016: Meet the winner Craig Younger
Mastering the Broker Apprentice: After six exciting episodes, the Broker Apprentice has been crowned. Insurance Age catches up with chief judge LV Broker’s managing director Mike Crane and winner Craig Younger to find out how he triumphed
Car insurance premiums at four-year high, says AA
The index showed that the average shop around premium jumped by 5.8% over the last quarter.
Brokers more upbeat as profits returned to positive growth
CBI/PwC Financial services survey also saw growth in business volumes strengthen over the quarter.
Venture Insurance buys Poole Martin
The deal will take Venture’s GWP up to £13m a year.
Meet the techies: Nicholas Phair
REG UK programme manager Nicholas Phair tells us how technology can elevate broking to new levels of efficiency.
Quizzical questions: 20 January 2017
Test your knowledge of the week's news with our topical quiz.
Applied Systems to double its headcount in Brighton
Software house sees opportunities to grow in the UK as it launches Applied Epic later this year.
Broking Break: Your top five of the week
Two major insurer restructures, CEO changes, swapping software houses and a new product make up this week's most read stories.
SSP explains power outage
Software house stresses the issue was not caused by its Pure platform.
Further disruption on SSP's Pure platform
The software house acknowledged that a further issue had occurred.
Biba welcomes PM’s speech on Brexit
Trade body pleased with strategy articulated by Theresa May and her preferred direction of travel.
Theresa May to seek phased approach to exiting Single Market
PM says negotiations will be for Free Trade Agreement.
Biba calls for cheaper regulation for brokers
Trade body raises concerns about the burden of regulation on smaller brokers in its 2017 manifesto.
Biba launches 2017 manifesto – Enabling the Insurance Market
Trade body covers IPT, Brexit, regulation costs and more in this year’s document.
Bruce Stevenson grows GWP to £29m
Broker says it has a number of "exciting initiatives" underway to maintain growth.
Brokers, is your own professional indemnity cover in order?
Arthur J Gallagher’s Ben Waterton reminds brokers that their own PI must be up to scratch.
Bought by Many raises £7.5m to grow mobile platform
The broker also signed a long-term insurance agreement with the Munich Re Digital Partners business unit.
FSCS broker levy increases to £13m for 2017/18
Insurers to pay £63m supplementary levy following the failures of Gable and Enterprise.
Quizzical questions: 13 January 2017
Test your knowledge of the week's news with our topical quiz.
Blog: Arron Banks' Question Time appearance
Banks' views on the maximum wage cap, Trump, the NHS, the EU and more.
Top 5: Developing risk management services
Thomas Coles of Risk Solved explains why brokers need to look at offering customers a rounded risk management service as the insurance market changes.