Technology
InsurTech Futures: CDL set to launch chatbot solution
New offering to help brokers interact with customers through digital channels.
InsurTech Futures: Simply Business hosts blockchain hackathon
Winning team developed weather insurance platform for organisers of major outdoor events.
InsurTech Futures: Risk v Reward – how brokers can get the most from InsurTech
CMS partner Ian Stevens discusses opportunities and legal obligations for brokers in InsurTech.
Applied Systems reveals BHIB as second Epic user in UK
A-Plan was first to sign up when new service was launched.
InsurTech Futures: Start-up broker Zego raises £1.2m in funding
Pay-as-you-go broker targets drivers working for sharing economy companies.
SSP partners with Axa on live-chat service
Allianz was first to go live with the service with more insurers expected to follow.
Aviva redundancies: Insurer says 50% of claims can be serviced online
Brokers agree technology can help claims service but Unite Union slams the job losses.
Broking Break: Your top five of the week
A Gumball blog, solvency figures, new software, warnings for brokers and an insurer closing were voted the top five stories by brokers’ clicks over the week.
InsurTech Futures: Stephen Catlin warns industry not to lose out
Speaking at the MGAA conference Catlin highlighted urgency to embrace technology and transforming processing capabilities.
InsurTech Futures: Brokers face disruption from start-ups, warns PwC's Howe
PwC global InsurTech leader Jonathan Howe urges brokers to respond to innovation in the sector.
SSP confident of winning customers with new service
Adrian Coupland says SSP Broking is the result of years of development.
SSP launches SSP Broking
Adrian Coupland says offering is the first of a number of new developments.
Acturis buys German-based Lutronik
Broker software company is located in Wesel.
InsurTech Futures: 86% of insurers worried about losing revenue to start-ups, says PwC
PwC says insurers' perception of InsurTech has changed over the last year.
InsurTech Futures: Pay-per-mile broker gets £350,000 investment
The on-demand motor start-up is gearing up for UK launch as it awaits FCA authorisation.
InsurTech innovation vital to executing plan for growth, says CDL
According to the firm continual investment in research and development is an important part of its strategy.
Profits up 32% for Acturis in 2016
Software specialist delivers 20% rise in revenue.
CDL's profit after tax soars 42% in 2016
Operating profit and turnover also rose.
Open GI partners with Equifax on fraud prevention
The software house is making Equifax checks available via its fraud validation platform.
Blog: When the Apple takes a bite out of you
Does Apple and Cisco’s move into cyber insurance herald the start of technology firms truly disrupting the insurance chain?
InsurTech Futures: Apple makes cyber insurance move
Reports say the technology firm has teamed up with Cisco to help businesses get a discount on cyber insurance.
InsurTech Futures: Use of tech by consumers growing in insurance
EY says that the future use of FinTech in insurance is projected to rise to 55%.
InsurTech Futures: Technology will shrink the insurance market, says RSA's Leitch
RSA global connected insurance director Kenny Leitch states InsurTech will stop claims from happening.
Meet the techies: Paul Williams
Paul Williams, executive chairman of the JRW Group, warns brokers that fresh thinking is needed to survive in a changing world.