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May 18, 2021
Claims survey – what is your experience of best practice?
In advance of the next InsTech London Live Chat, Driving Claims Excellence with Technology for Flooding Events, we want to know what you consider to be best practice in claims management.
If you have experience of managing claims or are familiar with how the ...
March 25, 2021
Member Spotlight: FintechOS
InsTech London partner Robin Merttens talks to Karl Lawless, VP of Sales at FintechOS, about speeding up digital transformation, new market opportunities, and why Covid-19 has put insurers under pressure.
Robin: For those who haven’t come across FintechOS – what does it do?
Karl: ...
March 12, 2021
Know your risk; the self-service property inspection tool helping insurers & their clients
The most useful insurance products are often a combination of a simple concept powered by complex technology.
Flyreel’s AI Assistant is a great example, harnessing the potential of AI in a practical application that allows policyholders to conduct self-inspections using ...
January 4, 2021
The Friends’ Forecast 2021 – Six themes, 20 people, Part One
Inspiration and quotes from our 2021 predictions event. These are the themes you need to be aware of in 2021.
After the rollercoaster of 2020 it’s a brave soul that’s willing to commit to what 2021 will look like. But running a global network of talented and ...
December 15, 2020
Aiming to be something different: Convex
Specialty insurer and reinsurer Convex was founded in 2019 with a focus on complex risks, claims and underwriting. The company has raised $2.7bn in committed capital in just over 18 months. Robin spoke to Lidia Bozhevolnaya from Strategic Projects and Portfolio Optimisation Director Jenny Williams about Convex’...
October 4, 2020
Underwriting and claims fraud revealed
One of the most effective uses of data and analytics in insurance is to prevent fraud both at the point of underwriting and from claims.
Jeroen Morrenhof founded FRISS in 2006 and today the company has over 180 implementations of its technology around the world. Identifying potential ...
July 30, 2020
Supply chain management & operational resilience
After spotting a gap in the market, Adam Richards co-founded Albany Group to build technology solutions to help insurers improve their supplies and claims processes, and how they interact with their partners.
Listen here or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.
Adam ...
January 13, 2020
An Englishman in New York
Episode 63 of the InsTech London podcast features a return from Bernard Goyder, a journalist with Insurance Insider.
Bernard is currently on a posting to New York, having previously been the Insurance Insiders’ technology correspondent in London.
We last featured Bernard in June 2019 shortly after ...
October 16, 2019
Author, prophet and business lubricant
We were delighted to be able to catch some time with Rob Galbraith whilst he was over in London recently. Rob is well known for his commentary on insurtech, insurance and all things related.
Join us to find out why Rob, author of the ...
January 18, 2019
Data Disasters and Career Limiting Catastrophes
On 6 July 1988 the Piper Alpha oil platform exploded. 167 people died. Much of the insurance was with what became known as the London Market Excess of Loss (LMX) Spiral, a tightly knit and badly managed web of insurance policies. Losses cascaded up and around the market. ...
September 26, 2018
Cyber risk: insurance black hole or a massive opportunity?
You own a house. It burns down. Your insurer only pays out 15% of the loss.
That’s a serious case of under insurance. You’d wonder why you bothered with insurance in the first place. In reality, massive under-insurance is very rare for conventional property ...