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The InsTech team is taking a break and we’ve outsourced this week’s short podcast to ChatGPT. But fear not – humans will be back in the loop next week. Interested to find out more about how insurers are using AI. Sign up to our ...

This Christmas Eve, we bring to you our last Partners’ Chat of the year. Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant reflect on the year and the developments we’ve seen in insurance, particularly those set to define the industry in the next year. As always there ...

Climate Risk is InsTech’s monthly newsletter dedicated to climate-related insurance news. Beyond the smoke: understanding and mitigating wildfire risk Wildfires are growing in severity and intensity. According to Swiss Re, wildfires have cost the insurance industry more than $70 billion over the last decade. Political ...

Instabase offers technology solutions to extract information from unstructured data and automate processes. This week Matthew Grant speaks with Bas de Goei, Director of Growth Marketing at Instabase about how generative AI is helping the insurance industry tackle its pain points, and specifically “give people ...

Supply chain pressures, the COVID-19 pandemic and a climate-induced increase in weather variability have disrupted businesses around the world in recent years.

InsTech’s Ali Smedley recently spoke to Rebecca Fuller, Managing Director and Global Fixed Asset Advisory Services Leader at Kroll, about the company’s property insurance offering. Rebecca and her large team assists global corporates, brokers and insurance companies with valuation issues.

This week we hand over the mic to Robin Merttens as he talks to James Gillespie, Head of Pricing, and Grant Dewar, Client Services Director at Aon’s Strategy and Technology Group (STG). In this episode, they discuss the evolution of Aon STG in the 18 ...

The Parametric Post, the only newsletter dedicated to parametric insurance. Thought for the day… how parametric is filling wildfire protection gaps With wildfire risk increasing in many areas, particularly California, it is becoming more and more challenging for insurers to underwrite traditional insurance profitably. Since 2022, ...

We’re piloting a new style of podcast this week and borrowing the InsTech podcast channel to test this out. If you are wondering what is going on behind the news items you read about in insurance or technology then this new podcast is for ...

Generative AI in Practice is InsTech’s monthly newsletter dedicated to the use of generative AI in insurance. The InsTech Perspective Are you hiring or firing? This month, the world of AI watched a dramatic firing and hiring episode. On Friday 17 November, OpenAI fired CEO ...

Ali Smedley speaks to Bevis Tetlow, CEO at Imaginera, about what an ‘underwriting cockpit’ is, the flexibility of the company’s underwriting platform Orca and how it caters for the end-to-end journey of an underwriting submission from receipt through to claims.

Wildfires are growing in severity and intensity. Since 2013, they have cost the insurance industry over $70 billion. But wildfire has traditionally been thought of as a ‘secondary peril’ – is it due a promotion to ‘primary peril’?

What drives insurers to look into adopting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into their underwriting processes? Salman Siddiqui at Moody’s Analytics and Adiraj Maitra at Canopius join Matthew Grant in this podcast to discuss ESG and sustainability in the insurance industry, centring the ...

The Parametric Post, the only newsletter dedicated to parametric insurance. Thought for the day… why the parametric insurance market grew in 2023 Privately owned insurance companies don’t often release specific details about how their products are performing, but we’ve recently seen a few statistics ...

Inversion specialises in bespoke software development services tailored for the insurance and reinsurance sector. This week Robin Merttens spoke with Inversion’s founders, Jacques Bosch and Piro Vorster, and in their conversation they touched on the story behind the creation of the company, and the ...

The Parametric Post, the only newsletter dedicated to parametric insurance. The InsTech perspective… why parametric insurance suits shock events Hurricane Otis caught people and businesses off guard when it made landfall in Acapulco, Mexico on 25 October as a category 5 hurricane. Just 24 hours earlier, it had ...

Arbol, an MGA specializing in parametric insurance, has been rapidly growing and expanding since we last spoke a year ago. Arbol recently announced a partnership with reinsurer Beazley, enabling them to deploy capacity in the US for weather risks. Tune in to Henry Gale, Senior ...

Tune in to find out how Capgemini is trying to alleviate pain points including legacy systems, data access and control, and talent acquisition.

Addresscloud has grown from a team of three to a team of eleven since InsTech last spoke to Founder and CEO, Mark Varley. In this episode, Matthew’s discussion with Mark covers Addresscloud’s core services such as geocoding and peril risk assessment, and its ...

Generative AI in Practice is InsTech’s monthly newsletter dedicated to the use of generative AI in insurance. The InsTech Perspective OpenAI’s view of catastrophic risks Last week OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced the launch of a ‘preparedness’ team. The division will ‘track, ...