All articles by Clare Ruel – Page 31
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NewsBackchat April 2023
Blanc speaks about misogyny on BBC Radio Four’s Desert Island Discs, a managing director runs a marathon and one Insurance Times journalist is in a play. You heard it here first…
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NewsPen Underwriting makes splash into specialist marine sector with acquisition
The new buy adds £90m of gross written premium to Pen, says statement
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NewsCouncils could reduce insurance coverage to achieve savings
’Any measures have the potential to backfire,’ says client director
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NewsFounders Forum Group in talks to buy Tech Nation
The news comes as Tech Nation prepares to cease operations following its funding being withdrawn
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News AnalysisBriefing: The Silicon Valley Bank collapse – a case for an insurtech backstop?
With the insurtech sector struggling in the current economic climate, are the twin blows of Tech Nation and the Silicon Valley Bank too much?
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NewsGenasys Technologies announces expansion with new business units
’We are in an exceptional position to propel our company forwards,’ says chief executive
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NewsLloyd’s Lab names the 13 insurtechs to join cohort 10
’I’m excited to see the dynamism and output,’ says senior manager
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News AnalysisBettina Roth: Spearheading innovation on the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man’s Financial Services Authority’s chief executive says she hopes more insurtechs will do ’funky exciting things’ on the island
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NewsOxbow Partners achieves B Corp status
The firm’s co-founding partner says Oxbow Partners is ’proud to be recognised as a business that puts our people and the wider community before profit’
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NewsAccenture set to cut around 19,000 jobs
’We initiated actions to streamline our operations,’ an Accenture spokesperson tells Insurance Times
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NewsZurich experimenting with AI ChatGPT chatbot
An insurtech collaborating with the insurer believes that the chatbot could ’provide a better customer outcome’
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NewsSend Technology and Sollers Consulting join forces to support insurance underwriting
The partnership was formed in response to the increased demand from international insurers to boost digital underwriting capabilities
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News AnalysisTechTalk: Silicon Valley Bank collapse could see ‘contraction of capital’ – but for now it’s business as usual
There remains ’a massive amount of nervousness’ for some UK insurtechs, says chief executive
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NewsLloyd’s Lab reveals insurtechs in tenth cohort pitch day
’The insurance sector and innovation have to some moved at a slow pace – with the industry being conservative in nature and therefore slow to embrace change,’ says Altus non-executive director
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NewsEx-Applied Systems managing director joins IS2 as commercial director
The new recruit will be supporting IS2’s entry into new sectors and advising on potential acquisitions
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News‘Words speaking louder than actions in D&I’
The co-founder of the Insurance Cultural Awareness Network said there were ‘real core issues’
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NewsTech Nation reveals 70 redundancies
The tech industry trade organisation is reportedly in a Tupe dispute with the new recipient of its pulled funding
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NewsChancellor pledges £2.5bn to quantum computing strategy
The strategy is part of Hunt’s aim to turn the UK into a ’science and technology superpower’ - a new AI sandbox will also be launched
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IT InterviewChris Kenning: Taking boxing tactics to the insurtech boardroom – ‘it’s about winning’
The chief executive wants to engage younger consumers with insurance through boxing and social media
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NewsInsurtech sector ‘disappointed’ over spring budget’s partial reversal to R&D tax credit cuts
The rhetoric of wanting to make the UK a ’tech superpower’ still requires more substance, says software director
