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Ataraxia takes stake in Whitefield Insurance Services
The deal sees Stephen Hopwood take the reins at the Ramsbottom-based broker as Steven Foster exits.
Fresh’s aggregator distribution model key in Vantage deal
Vantage Insurance CEO John Collyear explains why it targeted Fresh and reveals pipeline of potential UK investments as buy takes firm’s GWP up to £120m.
Vantage buys Fresh Insurance
CEO Lisa Powis has left with immediate effect.
Ghost brokered policies up by 14% in the last year, says Smartdriverclub
Telematics provider uses data analytics to filter out ghost brokers.
Video: GDPR – What you need to know
Cheryl Martin, partner in the insurance advisory cyber and GDPR practice at EY and Branko Bjelobaba, founder of consultancy firm Branko Limited, share their knowledge on how the new regulations came about.
Reich targeting £100m of GWP by 2022
CEO Simon Taylor rules out selling up.
Podcast: The top five stories of the week
Insurance Age's editor and reporter share their thoughts on Biba 2018 and a strong week for puns in headlines.
Ageas Q1 results "significantly hit" by bad weather
UK CEO Andy Watson says provider wants to grow in commercial lines.
Endsleigh picks SSP in five year deal
Broker moves away from maintaining its own software and infrastructure.
Allianz to move commercial business from LV in Q3
Insurer reports improved profit for first quarter 2018.
Blog: Eight things to look out for at Biba 2018
As the UK insurance sector descends on Manchester for the 2018 British Insurance Brokers' Association Conference, Jonathan Swift predicts some of the key talking points on the floor and in the bars around the venue.
One Call looks to tech to “disrupt home market”
The broker has partnered with tech provider Roost on ‘home telematics’.
Damian Baxter moves from Open GI to Hughub
Baxter becomes head of sales at insurtech firm.
Marshmallow toasts Marsh in dispute over name
Marsh had attempted to block the InsurTech start-up from using the name Marshmallow.
Quizzical questions: 11 May 2018
Test your knowledge of the week's news with our topical quiz.
Ex-Oak Underwriting boss Mark Coffey joins Ardonagh
Coffey appointed commercial director for Autonet and Carole Nash.
Carrot moves another 9,000 clients to Aviva after Alpha collapse
Telematics specialists had started process in March and Aviva stresses it is not targeting Alpha's book.
Ray Vincent steps up as i-Wonder CEO
Vincent led sale of Transactor to Open GI in 2017.
The Blog Spot: Why on earth is dual pricing still going on?
Emmanuel Kenning shares his thoughts after the launch of the ABI and Biba initiative.
ABI calls on FCA to use new personal lines principles when supervising firms
Biba encourages brokers to help solve the dual pricing problem.
Biba and ABI team up to tackle dual pricing in personal lines
Trade bodies state that members will give board and senior management level priority to better outcomes for long-standing customers.
Transactor publishes final results from before Open GI sale
Software house says focus on Version 7 impacted numbers.
Covéa reports rising GWP but falling profit for 2017
Insurer's COR for the year came in at 97.5%.
InsurTech Futures: Mobile app Honcho aims to disrupt price comparison websites
Broker-owned online reverse auction app to launch in the car insurance sector in Autumn 2018 after being authorised by the FCA.