Interviews – Page 5
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IT InterviewFCA review on rule simplification offers ‘opportunity’ to forge ‘proportionate’ framework – Jon Dye
The chief executive says Consumer Duty marked ‘a significant regulatory change’ that ‘has involved a good deal of work’ to implement and embed successfully within the insurer’s operations
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IT InterviewGeorges de Macedo: Chief exec promotes five pillar plan to keep Covéa Insurance in the black
Covéa Group sends Frenchman across the Channel to spearhead British business because ‘the situation in the UK required some action’
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IT InterviewNik Ellis: Tech Champion prize celebrates ‘edgy’ firm that is not afraid of failure
Managing director says that to stay at the forefront of technology innovation and implementation, businesses must be ‘prepared to evolve’ and have ‘the nerve’ to try new things
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IT InterviewAmrit Santhirasenan: Hyperexponential growing organically amid AI revolution
’Technology has had massive leverage on different parts of society, but insurance is an area where it is still relatively early in modernisation compared to other sectors,’ says chief executive
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IT InterviewIan Summers: Insurance firms should ‘do the simple stuff first’ with data journeys
’Long projects in technology have very bad track records,’ says global business leader
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IT InterviewRobin Gilthorpe: Earnix continuing to grow organically as it deepens footprint
’Our goal is to make our customers’ businesses run better. Helping insurers to underwrite the right risks for the right prices and the right offers,’ says chief executive
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News AnalysisPaul Anscombe: Seventeen Group’s independence means culture is the ‘number one priority’
After a healthy dose of M&A this year, the broker chief executive is keen to slow down purchases and showcase an organic growth focus alongside making larger, fewer buys
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IT InterviewJon Dye: Hiscox is third of way through ‘strategy for profitable growth’
UK chief executive flags ‘really good energy’ at the specialist insurer as it targets retail growth ‘between 5% and 15% at the right level of profit’ over four-year strategy duration
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IT InterviewNick Line: ‘Better representation’ at senior underwriter level needed
Markel International’s chief underwriting officer talks attracting and retaining underwriting talent
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IT InterviewRonit Maor: Insurance needs more female CFOs
’The CFO role has historically been perceived as a power role, [meaning] that in order to do it you need to be tough and aggressive,’ says chief financial officer
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IT InterviewMartin Schultheiss: Uinsure actions ‘really high growth strategy’ following PE investment
A ‘suits and trainers’ organisational culture that embraces the ‘right talent’ is the ‘magic sauce’ underpinning insurtech’s comprehensive growth strategy, says group managing director
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IT InterviewBen Legg: Open GI homing in on ‘North Star’ of empowering brokers to write better business
’We see our role in the market to empower our brokers to write more and better quality business, as well as improving the lives of anyone using insurance products,’ says chief product officer
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IT InterviewWayne Jefferson: ‘ETrading will ultimately become more complex’
’We don’t want unwieldy question sets that become way too complicated for a customer and put them off eTrading,’ says head of eTrading
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IT InterviewInsurers will need to take the pain if they are to make the most of AI – Esure
Having the right underlying systems in place to support AI functionality is crucial, according to insurer’s chief customer officer
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IT InterviewChris Rolland: ‘Doing the right thing’ as a competitive advantage
’That flight to quality that we’ve seen across the insurance industry in the past few years has become more important, especially in travel insurance,’ says chief executive
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IT InterviewChris Newton: Send Technology is focused on ‘solving real world problems for underwriters’
Chief technology officer believes the commercial insurance sector is ’ripe for disruption’
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IT InterviewJacqueline McNamee: ‘Transparency of data’ is key challenge facing MGA market
Jacqueline McNamee, chief executive at C-Quence, outlines how the MGA is looking to deliver for its broker partners, as well as reveals her views on how the MGA market will evolve over the upcoming year
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IT InterviewMarkel’s success relies on ‘having the right people’ to pick up broker calls
A business can have the ’best trained staff, but if employees are not willing to pick up the phone, no amount of technology will make a difference,’ says underwriting director
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IT InterviewSimon Lancaster: SJL Insurance seeks ‘to provide that link between broker and underwriter’
Chief executive outlines ‘fiercely independent’ wholesale broker’s organic growth trajectory, emphasising that the firm is ‘still very much a relationship business’
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IT InterviewTheo Duchen: ‘More work to do’ around eTrading complex insurance products
’Complex [risks are] not that easy to compare. [They often have] terms and conditions which need quite a lot of interpretation,’ says co-chief executive
