E-Trading
Reportage - specialist products: How practical is it to sell specialist cover on the web?
Making commercial insurance products available online can create efficiencies for customers, brokers and insurers and has proved particularly successful in the standard SME market. Ian Wainwright asks if it is practical to sell specialist cover over the…
Reportage - online security: Storing online data securely
As the world of e-trading moves on apace, the legal obligations of companies that receive, store and disseminate client information can often be forgotten. Liz McMahon examines the responsibilities brokers have in regards to data
Reportage - mobile phones: An appy medium for brokers?
Internet-enabled mobile phones are the latest vehicle to be used to sell insurance with a host of apps already in production. Liz McMahon explores how brokers should approach this new method of distribution.
Power hour: A cooperative coalition?
This month's power hour assesses the impact the Con-Dem Government has already had on insurance and debates how it will continue to influence the industry in the future. Liz McMahon reports.
Letters: Brokers must invest in e-commerce
Mark Roberts of CGI is right to warn brokers to invest in e-commerce (Insurance Age, July 2010).
Moneyextra.com sells up and surrenders to rival aggregators
Price comparison site Moneyextra.com has finally admitted defeat in its bid to compete with the UK's top four aggregators after the company was sold for £1.
RSA launches online quote and buy facility for brokers
RSA has launched RSA Online, a new service which enables brokers to obtain quotes and bind a policy online.
Octagon extends its aggregator presence
Octagon Insurance has joined the comparethemarket.com panel.
News analysis: LV launches marketing tool
LV is launching a marketing and quote-engine tool for small and regional brokers called Proud, utilising South Essex Insurance Brokers' wholesaling arm's technical back-end.
Fortis invests in household risk offering
Fortis has invested in a new suite of computer models from technology provider Business Insight that are designed to predict the relative risk of claims for a number of insured perils across the UK.
Data quality: Staying in charge of your data
If the Financial Services Authority has concerns over the accuracy of your data processing, it might demand that you implement a new system as well as impose significant fines, writes Ian Singer.
Focus - technology: Taming the tide of systems improvement
The technology ocean requires time, flexibility and planning to navigate safely and, as the aggregator model shows, there is great danger in being left behind a business ship bound for new, exciting and profitable lands, writes Ed Murray.
BeatThatQuote and MSN launch comparison site
Comparison website BeatThatQuote has secured a new partnership deal with MSN to set up financial price comparison site MSN Compare.
Aviva targets technology market
Aviva has made a number of changes to its commercial combined policies in a bid to better meet the needs of customers within the technology sector.
E-commerce: Crashing hardware is top business continuity risk
Hardware failure remains the top business continuity risk for UK companies, according to research conducted by Sungard Availability Services.
E-commerce: Brokers urged to prepare for increase in mobile web access
The insurance industry has been urged to invest in e-commerce as mobile phones are predicted to overtake PCs as the dominant web access device within three years.
E-commerce: Non-intermediaries set to muscle in on micro market
Brokers that fail to embrace technology-savvy trading risk losing their majority share of the micro commercial market.
Aviva introduces home contents calculator
Aviva has introduced a home contents calculator to Personal Best, its web-based personal lines portal for brokers.
Acturis deal paves way for European adventure
Acturis has sold a minority stake in the company to ‘growth equity’ firm, Summit Partners, as it embarks on a European growth strategy.
Allianz Commercial to boost productivity by 10%
Following a successful trial, Allianz Commercial has said it would take advantage of a bespoke solution from systems integrator LAN2LAN in a bid to create new efficiencies across the company’s risk assessment business.
Allianz launches household comparison tool
Allianz Insurance has launched an online comparison service for brokers on its e-broker website using the latest independent Defaqto Compare comparison tool.
Total Objects wins London Market project
Software company, Total Objects, has been chosen to manage the ECF2 Market Acceptance Testing project for the London Market.
Evolution teams up with Groupama for tradesman launch
Evolution Underwriting has launched a fully autorated tradesman liability product, Trade Protector Plus, on its Stingray trading platform.
Online commercial MGA partners with THB
Insureit UK, the online commercial insurance managing general agency (MGA), has chosen THB Risk Solutions as its distribution partner in time for the launch of a new range of commercial insurance solutions for brokers.