Data

How does an organisation like Allianz – one of the world’s largest insurance companies – stay ahead when it comes to innovation? Matthew talks to Michele Williams, Head of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty’s central innovation unit XSE, to find out what the group is ...

24th September 2019 Reverse Pitch: What the Industry Wants from Insurtech? Over the years InsTech London has successfully brought hundreds of emerging tech, data and analytics companies to talk to the insurance community about the solutions they can offer insurers, MGA’s and brokers. This time ...

The finance teams in insurance companies often struggle as much as others when it comes to identifying key business metrics and bringing together multiple sources of data.  Improving efficiency is one of the foundations of the “Future of Lloyd’s” strategy and the 3rd ...

These highlights from the second half of our 8th July event address the question “what is Insurtech as a service?”.  Matthew talks to Stewart Reeder of Hitachi (13:45) and three more of their partners, Damion Thompson Insurance Lead at Google Cloud,  Michael Flanagan, CEO ...

Another fast moving series of chats with more leaders from insurance, technology and data. In this episode, the first half of our 8th July evening at The SteelYard, Robin investigates how Hitachi (2:00), the 7th largest technology group in the world, is making it easier ...

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. ...

How a building is constructed, maintained and where it is located all have a massive impact on its potential to be damaged or destroyed. That knowledge is as old as insurance itself. So why do so many underwriters still suffer from lack of decent data ...

Property insurance relies on good quality data about the characteristics of buildings, and the replacement costs after a loss.  Todd Rissel, CEO of e2Value was over in London, hosting a workshop with InsTech London and he spoke to Matthew Grant about the ...

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 ...