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Member Spotlight: Descartes Underwriting

01 Mar 2022

InsTech London’s Henry Gale speaks to Descartes Underwriting’s team in London, Alessandro Girelli (Underwriting Manager) and Paul Jones (Business Development Director – U.K. & Ireland), about the... read more

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Climate Change Risk Regulation and Measurement: 22 companies to know

24 Feb 2022

Actively engaging in climate change risk reduction will become one of the top strategic priorities for all insurers in 2022. This is a hugely important area, but there is a lot to untangle.
Climate... read more

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Member Spotlight: Chainlink Labs

21 Feb 2022

InsTech London’s Henry Gale speaks to William Herkelrath, Enterprise Business Development Lead at Chainlink Labs, to discuss blockchain, parametric insurance and what Chainlink offers to the... read more

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Four challenges facing parametric insurance: why isn’t parametric more widespread?

16 Feb 2022

Advances in data and technology are enabling parametric insurance to deliver solutions where traditional insurance falls short. Whilst the use of parametric insurance has grown in recent years, some... read more

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Member Spotlight: Synergy Cloud

14 Feb 2022

Synergy is a claims management workflow provider which forms part of the Claims Consortium Group. InsTech London’s Tara Allsopp was joined by Synergy's Director of Technology Tom Burroughs to discuss... read more

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Behavioural economics and underwriting – how science can back expert judgement

07 Feb 2022

The lifeblood of underwriting is the understanding and prediction of adverse events. Traditionally, an underwriter’s work comprises expert data analysis, an alignment with portfolio strategy, and... read more

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Member Spotlight: Beazley Digital

01 Feb 2022

Beazley is a specialist insurer with three decades of experience in providing clients with underwriting and claims services. Beazley participates in the Lloyd's market, the largest and oldest... read more

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Climate Risk - a monthly newsletter on climate events, tools and models

24 Jan 2022

Climate-related events are one of the biggest loss drivers for insurers, with managing and measuring the impacts now becoming a top priority for insurers. To highlight the growing importance of... read more

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Member Spotlight: INARI

24 Jan 2022

InsTech’s Henry Gale speaks to Frank Perkins, founder, CEO and CTO of INARI, about drivers for innovation in insurance technology and what the company’s platform offers.
Henry: Frank, why did you... read more

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2022 predictions for insurance - crowdsourced from the frontline

18 Jan 2022

We asked 16 innovation experts to give us their predictions for insurance in 2022 on Episode 172 of the InsTech London podcast.You can listen to that epsiode in our Podcast section or scroll down to... read more

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Member Spotlight: Micro Insurance Company

29 Dec 2021

InsTech London’s Henry Gale speaks to Harry Croydon, Founder and CEO of Micro Insurance Company about why he started the company and how to sell microinsurance products at scale.
Harry, why did you... read more

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Member Spotlight: Terrafirma

14 Dec 2021

Ali Smedley caught up with Dr Tim Farewell after he spoke at our recent live event Climate Change Risks and Opportunities Today. Tim discusses Terrafirma’s product offerings, how they incorporate... read more

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Best of both: bundling parametric with indemnity insurance

08 Dec 2021

Parametric insurance is often bought as a complement to indemnity insurance, but newly announced hybrid products combining parametric and indemnity insurance in the same policy will launch in 2022.... read more

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Member Spotlight: Intelligent AI

30 Nov 2021

InsTech London’s Ali Smedley speaks to Anthony Peake, CEO at Intelligent AI, about how the company can help insurers mitigate risk, what digital twins are and the future of IoT in commercial... read more

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Podcast Leaderboard - Autumn 2021

23 Nov 2021

The InsTech London podcast went past 125,000 downloads at the end of summer 2021 and these are our most popular episodes.
Our latest quarterly leaderboard features 11 new entries, with Flock CEO Ed... read more

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COP26 and Insurance: The Key Themes

16 Nov 2021

Throughout the period of COP26, conversations and announcements relating to the insurance industry tended to focus on a few key themes: the insurance protection gap, decarbonisation by 2050, and the... read more

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Member Spotlight: Capital Law

16 Nov 2021

InsTech London’s Henry Gale speaks to Rachel Hillier, Partner at Capital Law, about the services Capital Law provides to technology companies, how parametric insurance fits within insurance law and... read more

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Member Spotlight: ICSR

09 Nov 2021

InsTech London’s Ali Smedley speaks to Kenneth Underhill, ICSR’s founding director, about the services the company provides and the biggest regulatory challenges insurers are currently facing.
Ali:... read more

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Member Spotlight: CelsiusPro

02 Nov 2021

InsTech London’s Henry Gale speaks to Mark Rueegg, founder and CEO of CelsiusPro, about the company’s product offerings. CelsiusPro began in 2008 as a platform for weather derivatives, which are... read more

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Demystifying Crypto: the insurance opportunities and challenges

29 Oct 2021

Crypto is becoming more mainstream, with implications across financial services. Where crypto meets insurance, progress has been slow – in large part due to a lack of understanding between the... read more

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