Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 19 to 23 October 2026
This week’s top news story was Allianz Partners UK signing a five-year partnership deal with travel insurance intermediary Coverwise.
In this partnership, Allianz’s travel and specialty insurance division will provide underwriting, claims handling and emergency medical assistance to all customers across Coverwise and its Southdowns brand.
Readers were also very interested in PIB Group-owned Cobra Network announcing that Jo Russell will succeed Andy Tedstone as chief executive.
Russell had worked at Cobra Network for the past six years, playing a key role in shaping its strategy and growth.
The third most read story was African broking group Maksure Risk Solutions expanding its UK operations into direct corporate and public sector insurance broking.
The accredited Lloyd’s broker said it was broadening its UK offering to provide comprehensive insurance broking, risk advisory and risk financing solutions to mid-sized and large corporates, public sector institutions and organisations with international business interests.
Coming in at fourth was the FCA revealing that it plans to become an “agentic regulator”, using artificial intelligence (AI) to make itself ”sharper, faster and more effective”.
Rounding off the top five stories is Simply Business appointing Kulchetan Sanga as UK chief commercial officer and Mark Potter as managing director of its MGA.
Sanga, who succeeds Jodi Cartwright in his new role, will lead the commercial function, overseeing key partnerships, product strategy and customer propositions.
Potter, meanwhile, will lead the company’s in-house MGA.
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