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August 19, 2025
Climate risk at the property level – what insurers need to know
Ahead of our 24 September webinar, a new PriceHubble–MIAC Analytics study reveals that property-level climate risk modelling uncovers hidden exposures with subsidence and rising rebuild costs emerging as critical challenges UK insurers can’t afford to overlook.
August 17, 2025
Partners’ Chat – What the future holds for InsTech and beyond
In this milestone edition of Partners Chat, Robin and Matthew sit down for their first episode since InsTech's transition to new ownership.
August 10, 2025
What startups get wrong about risk, data and dilution – and how to get it right
In this episode, Matthew Grant catches up with Bob, CEO and Co-founder of PropertyLens and former CEO and founder of Hazard Hub, to hear what he’s learned across three startups, why he’s building again post-exit and how he’s turning deep domain expertise into tools that actually help people.
August 5, 2025
Fadata: Are UK insurers prepared to accommodate the increasing popularity of annuities?
The volatility of world markets can have repercussions for the UK insurance sector - insurers can help their customers to mitigate market risk and maximise retirement confidence through increased and relatable products. With a spotlight on how sensitive the market is as politics unpredictability injects instability, and as people face the reality of longer retirements, insurers can welcome the lucrative surge of annuity customers, but are they ready to deliver?
July 27, 2025
Underwriting weather: reducing uncertainty with claims-driven models
In this episode, Matthew Grant speaks with Matt Coleman, Chief Risk Officer at The Demex Group, a reinsurance MGA using a new modelled loss index to reshape how the market covers severe convective storms, one of the fastest-growing sources of weather-driven loss.
July 20, 2025
Catastrophe models, claims tech and the power of platforms
In this episode, Matthew Grant speaks with Garret about what he’s learning, not just from running a technology platform, but from living through the very risks his business is built to address.
July 13, 2025
What’s blocking claims innovation?
In this episode, experts from EY, PwC, and Altus Consulting join Andrew Pedler (Reserv) to explore what’s holding back transformation in specialty claims, and what needs to change.
July 10, 2025
DOCOsoft: How technology is transforming customer experience in the face of major insurance events
InsTech spoke with DOCOsoft CEO, Aidan O’Neill, to learn how its claims technology enabled insurers and reinsurers to respond faster and more transparently to the 2025 California wildfires and what it means for the future of customer experience.
July 9, 2025
U.S. Municipalities are battling growing flood risk with innovative insurance solutions
In collaboration with Floodbase, this article explores the growing flood insurance crisis facing U.S. municipalities, the innovative parametric insurance models designed to address it and how data platforms like Floodbase are closing the gap in municipal flood protection.
June 22, 2025
AI hype vs reality in insurance – what really matters
In this episode, Robin Merttens speaks to Guillaume Bonnissent, CEO and founder of Quotech, a platform built specifically for underwriting teams. What emerges is a sharp portrait of a market in transition, one that’s slowly waking up to the need for class-specific tools, data-first workflows and AI that’s genuinely useful.
June 15, 2025
Understanding insurance to its core
In this episode, we speak with Todd Rissel, CEO and co-founder of e2Value, an independent company that has spent the last 25 years helping insurers and homeowners understand the real cost of rebuilding property, and the wider economic forces shaping those numbers.
May 11, 2025
Seeing through smoke: geospatial intelligence at work
In this episode, Matthew Grant speaks with Will Bonner, Chief Operating Officer at McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), about how the company uses satellite data, open-source intelligence and human expertise to deliver early insights on catastrophic events.