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Pen Underwriting doubles cyber cover limits and brings claims handling in-house

2026-06-08T11:00:00+01:00By

’Our mantra in this market is that cyber risk never stands still, so we won’t either,’ says managing director

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World Cup 2026 opens goal to ‘single point of failure’ cyber risks

2026-06-08T07:00:00+01:00By

Conflicts involving Russia, Ukraine, Iran and broader geopolitical tensions have ‘increased the likelihood that major events will be used as platforms for cyber-enabled messaging and symbolic attacks’, says director of threat intelligence services

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Half of UK FS chief executives ‘very optimistic’ for next 12 months despite capital constraints

2026-05-28T14:00:00+01:00By

’Amid ongoing uncertainty, there is a strong determination among leaders to focus on what’s within their control – taking a pragmatic, deliberate approach to growth and investment decisions that set them up for the future,’ says UK and Ireland financial services leader

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Cyber insurers warn AI is accelerating phishing and business email compromise attacks

2026-05-26T13:00:00+01:00By

’There’s not so much the deep fake element of it, but the speed and process in which somebody can complete a cyber attack,’ says claims director

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Biba 2026: Cyber insurers are becoming the industry’s ‘swat team’ as ransomware threats escalate

2026-05-19T09:12:00+01:00By

’There is no emergency service for cyber incidents. You can’t call 999 and someone is going to turn up to help you to fix it,’ says head of claims and incident management

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Biba 2026: Ben Wallace warns insurers cyber resilience is ‘more important, not less important’

2026-05-18T14:00:00+01:00

“The more we can encourage our businesses to have insurance, especially in the places of cyber, the better,” says former secretary of state for defence

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Biba 2026: AI developments reinforcing the need for preventative cyber insurance

2026-05-18T13:00:00+01:00By

‘What we see now with agentic AI is that in the same way it helps any UK business run better and have more scale, it gives the threat actors faster scale too,’ says managing director

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Biba 2026: Insurance firms risk becoming 'irrelevant' without stronger cyber propositions

2026-05-15T11:20:00+01:00By

Chief executive warns low cyber insurance uptake poses a major challenge for the sector

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Lloyd’s working to deliver greater clarity on cyber cover

2026-05-15T09:56:00+01:00By

’It is about clarity for the policyholders. We will lean heavily on the LMA as this is wording related,’ says chief of market performance

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Biba 2026: McLarens warns of cyber-physical BI gaps and data centre exposures

2026-05-15T07:00:00+01:00By

Brokers need to rethink traditional business interruption cover as cyber, AI and data centre exposures blur the line between digital and physical losses, says executive director

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Biba 2026: Evolving AI capabilities present both cyber risks and opportunities

2026-05-14T11:23:00+01:00By

‘As an attacker, you only have to win once and you’ve got an opportunity, where as a defender you have to win every single time,’ says country manager

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Biba 2026: Biba launches new cyber insurance directory

2026-05-13T14:00:00+01:00

’If we can increase the uptake of cyber insurance, it may help improve economic resilience against cyber crime,’ says chief executive

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UK businesses fear cyber risk surge amid a ‘complex web’ of interconnected risks – Marsh

2026-05-12T14:00:00+01:00By

To combat greater interconnectivity of risks, organisations are ‘shifting from siloed risk programmes to scenario‑based planning and integrated frameworks that combine technical controls, people and process,’ says broker’s chief executive for UK corporate and commercial

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Allianz moves commercial cyber portfolio to Coalition

2026-05-07T08:24:00+01:00By

’The global cyber insurance market is growing and evolving at pace and is a core coverage that is in high demand from our clients,’ says board member

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Briefing: The industry needs to stop treating cyber insurance as optional

2026-05-07T08:00:00+01:00By

Mike Dalby, chief executive at Howden’s consumer and local commercial division, makes the case that we must all be more serious about selling cyber

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TechTalk: Does Anthropic’s Claude Mythos break the cyber insurance underwriting model?

2026-05-05T07:00:00+01:00By

AI firm Anthropic recently announced that it would not be releasing its latest and most powerful model, Claude Mythos – a decision which has sent ripples through the cyber insurance industry

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Briefing: Cyber debate must be top of conference agenda as regulation looms

2026-04-30T08:00:00+01:00By

Government has made it clear that it sees the insurance industry as central to its cyber resilience plans, so the insurance industry must respond

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CFC hires new head of cyber exposure and proactive risk

2026-04-29T11:00:00+01:00By

The ’challenge’ for the cyber market is turning complex data ‘into something brokers and clients can put to use’ and this newly created role is about ‘closing that gap’, says managing director of proactive and global cyber security services

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Data focused captives can be complementary buffer to plug emerging risk coverage gaps

2026-04-27T14:00:00+01:00By

Risk experts predict that captives will continue to grow in popularity as a tool to make hard to write risks ‘palatable’ for the insurance market – particularly during hard market cycles

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Cyber market ‘has not yet built the infrastructure’ to operate sustainably at scale

2026-04-27T08:09:00+01:00By

‘The choice isn’t whether cyber risk will evolve, artificial intelligence guarantees that it definitely will – the choice is whether we build infrastructure fast enough to transfer this risk effectively,’ says chief executive

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