Technology
Gadget insurance aggregator launched
Protect Your Gadget price comparison website has been developed to compare multiple brands.
UK businesses “unprepared for a cyber shock”
Lockton report shows half of UK businesses expect to be entirely operational 48 hours after a large-scale cyber security breach.
Getting serious about cyber
CFC Underwriting’s Graeme Newman considers how public cyber attacks such as the WannaCry hack are helping brokers have the right conversations about digital crime with their clients.
Steve Lathrope replaces Laurence Walker as SSP CEO
Walker takes on the executive chairman role.
InsurTech Futures: iGO4 partners with CDL to launch lifestyle portfolio
The proposition will be brought to market later this year.
Brokers are not in regular contact with customers
According to a survey from Ecclesiastical brokers have only just started using social media to do business.
InsurTech Futures: Allianz partners with start-up Flock on drone insurance
The first product will be a mobile app for pay-as-you-fly drone insurance.
InsurTech Futures: Brolly raises £1m in funding
Start-up broker says seed investment, led by Valar Ventures, Pi Labs and Entrepreneur First, is one of the biggest in the UK InsurTech sector.
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.