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October 13, 2024
The Delegated Underwriting Specialists
This week, Robin Merttens speaks to Carbon Underwriting Managing Director and Co-founder, Ben Laidlaw on navigating changes in Lloyd's regulation, gaining approval for a second syndicate and on being Private Equity owned.
September 1, 2024
Martin’s market musings – some lead and others follow
This week, Robin Merttens talks with Martin Reith, Chairman at Artificial Labs. Next month, Martin Reith will mark 40 years in the London Market. Discover his thoughts on the challenges of modernising the London Market.
August 18, 2024
Built by underwriters, for underwriting teams
Matthew Grant caught up with Quotech’s CEO and founder to touch on his underwriting past and how it has helped build a company, the issues with Excel spreadsheets and targeting specific insurance lines to produce tailored products.
July 10, 2024
The new data-first market for brokers and carriers – from digital placement to Smart Follow
Missed out on the latest InsTech evening event or just want a refresher? No problem! Watch the six full panels filmed live at the event featuring speakers from Placing Platform Ltd, Artificial, WTW, Howden, Lloyd's, Apollo, Deloitte, Munich Re, Novidea, Ki Insurance, Beazley and Lloyd's Market Association.
July 7, 2024
Bringing two brains together: combining underwriting with tech
Tune in to hear Robin speak to Charlie and Graham about entrepreneurship in the MGA world, how technology can slot itself into an underwriting business and why the cultural aspect is the hardest thing to get right.
May 19, 2024
The future is embedded
Matthew Grant caught up with Louw Hopley on the opportunities and challenges in the insurance industry, focusing on the role of embedded insurance in adapting to changing customer demands.
April 2, 2024
From data to decision: how insurers are using underwriter workbenches in 2024
On 26 March, to coincide with the release of InsTech's latest report about the underwriting workbench landscape, we hosted a webinar to discuss implementation experiences and how insurers are using underwriter workbenches in 2024.
February 4, 2024
January news – $73 million funding, ships, war and thunderstorms
Matthew Grant is back with another in episode of what happened in insurance in the past month. He is once again joined by Nigel Walsh, Managing Director, Insurance, Google Cloud US, alongside Martha Notaras, Managing Partner at Brewer Lane Ventures and Charlotte Halkett, Senior Consultant at Milliman. Tune in to find out about recent funding round news, how property insurance is affected by the climate recently and more.
January 19, 2024
Driving strategic value through corporate ventures
This week James Orchard, CEO of QBE Ventures, joins the podcast and discusses the shift in insurers' appetite for innovation, partnerships with startups, and the importance of collaboration in achieving strategic goals.
January 5, 2024
Simple microinsurance for everyday risks
In our first podcast of 2024, Jamie Crystal, CEO of MIC Global, discusses with Matthew Grant their aim to close the insurance protection gaps by offering insurance products tailored to the needs of underserved individuals, including income protection, identity theft protection, and incident coverage.
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October 22, 2023
Focus on the customer front-end
Zywave provides a platform of modular solutions that enables digital distribution and revenue operation optimisation for insurers and brokers.
Over the past five years, the company has made ten acquisitions, spending nearly $1 billion dollars to bring leading brands and innovative companies together under one unified ...
August 17, 2023
Zywave: driving digital distribution
Member Spotlight: Zywave
Could you introduce Zywave?
Zywave is an insurance software company that focuses on the front office – how insurers and brokers acquire new customers, deliver quotes and service their customers and clients. Zywave provides cloud-based, proprietary datasets, customer acquisition and marketing automation tools, ...
