London Market Analysis
Insurtech offering brokers and underwriters PPL alternative sees business boom during Covid crisis
With Covid-19 accelerating electronic placing in the insurance industry, insurtech Whitespace is on a mission to help brokers and underwriters smoothly transact as its platform business is soaring
Analysed: The Lloyd’s market’s best and worst underwriters
With three successive years in the red and a fourth year of underwriting losses seemingly on the way, the Lloyd’s market has faced some testing times of late.
Ki – the digital follow-only syndicate aiming to reduce the London Market’s expense ratio
Brit is taking a data-led approach to solving various pain points in the London Market in its latest partnership with Google Cloud
Briefing: Marsh, Aon, Guidewire, reinsurers - how the Covid crisis will greatly benefit them
The likes of Aon, Marsh, Guidewire and Accenture could be on the cusp of a golden opportunity
US businesses seek to use damage trigger for business interruption claim pay outs
With Lloyd’s underwriters heavily invested in the US domestic property market, could upcoming lawsuits impact the UK business interruption sector?
Inside the cyber market with Sayata Labs’s Kingsley Flynn
Flynn says the market is still dogged by past perceptions of how restrictive and confusing cyber policies were in the early days of the product coming to market
What does Aon’s purchase of Willis Towers Watson mean for brokers?
Industry voices fear that consolidation between two of the UK’s largest brokers will lead to a ‘stagnating’ market and ‘significant change’ of the sector as we know it
Coronavirus: will ‘notifiable disease’ status be a game-changer for insurance?
Being a notifiable disease means cases have to be reported to the relevant authorities by law
FCA takes aim at bad broker behaviour
A letter from the regulator to broking chief executives is the latest effort to clamp down on inappropriate conduct in the industry
City insurers brace as opioid crisis unravels
Victor Syndicate 2288 eyes new territories amid expansion
Is a MBO the way to go?
D&O market has to fight impulse for broad brush increases
How can the industry stamp out the harassment culture
Big Question November 2019: Which of Lloyd’s three initiatives is the most urgent to implement – underwriting, culture or technology? And why?
Brokers must take centre stage for risk management - Allianz
MGAs feeling the squeeze as capacity constricts
Can Lloyd’s three-frontal attack win the day?
Briefing: Higher Lloyd’s profits cannot mask scale of challenge
Underpriced Lloyd’s business – where is it now?
Catlin and Brand detail recipe for success with Convex
Hiscox bosses reveal where rates are rising in retail and London market businesses
Egan sees ‘early shades of growth’ at RSA as new regional broker business shoots up
Irish leisure market’s insurance crisis with jobs threatened. Is UK next?
London Market News
AXA XL appoints new UK chief exec
He is also a board member of the Lloyd’s Market Association
Insurtech Dialogue Exchange Global selected for Lloyd’s Lab latest Covid-19 cohort
The business aims to streamline the credit and political risk marketplace
Jensten Group acquires wholesale and retail broker
Jensten Group Limited has acquired a wholesale and retail broker effective from today.
Lloyd’s calls for industry and government collaboration to mitigate future systemic risks post-Covid19
Lloyd’s of London is calling for close collaboration between insurers, brokers, customers, the global industry and government in designing cover for future systemic risks, which it says are complex.
