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March 31, 2023
Business Interruption for the sharing economy
The consequences of non-damage business interruption (NDBI), when events like pandemics don’t cause physical damage to a business but do result in significant drops in revenue, have been particularly clear since 2020. Small businesses and gig workers are particularly vulnerable to losses of income during ...
March 30, 2023
Cerchia: new sources of capital to transfer emerging risks
Member Spotlight: Cerchia
What are your backgrounds and why did you found Cerchia?
Michael: I worked in risk management in investment banks throughout my career across Europe and Asia. Whilst working in Japan, I experienced regular small earthquakes. I considered all the risks that insurance ...
March 21, 2023
In Conversation with Duck Creek: Accelerating the speed to market for embedded product development
In conversation with: Duck Creek
Can you provide an overview of Duck Creek?
Duck Creek Technologies is a provider of insurance software solutions Its software is designed to help insurers improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer experience.
Duck Creek serves the entire insurance value ...
March 13, 2023
ARMD: Total tool protection
Member Spotlight: ARMD
Why did you found ARMD?
I co-founded ARMD following my experience at my previous business, an internet-of-things (IoT) technology company developing smart security systems for home and business owners. Tradespeople would ask me if they could use our smart alarms to protect ...
February 14, 2023
OneAdvent: Launching scaleable MGAs
Member Spotlight: OneAdvent
Can you provide an introduction to OneAdvent?
OneAdvent helps MGAs launch their businesses in a way that meets the insurance industry’s regulatory requirements. The team seeks to do this by demystifying compliance, helping MGAs create new business models and providing advice, ...
January 27, 2023
Innovation success in insurance – creating outcomes not outputs
This week we are back talking to another leader from one of the largest insurance companies in the world. Liberty Mutual. Parul Kaul-Green is Chief Digital Strategy Officer for Liberty Specialty Markets. Parul is at the sharp end of driving innovation across many of Liberty’...
December 23, 2022
The Reinsurance Podcast: Industry Challenges and Innovation
Even podcasters need a break, so we’re borrowing the podcast for this episode from Supercede to bring you founders Ben Rose and Jerad Leigh interviewing InsTech’s Robin Merttens.
This was recorded back in August 2022 and reviews our Marketplaces and Exchanges report released at ...
December 13, 2022
Costero Brokers: placing innovative insurance deals
Member Spotlight: Costero Brokers
Jamie and James, what are your roles at Costero Brokers?
JW: As Managing Director, my role involves managing and running the company. My speciality has always been within property and casualty (P&C) binding authorities and the reinsurance market, but ...
November 15, 2022
Ensuro: an alternative source of insurance capacity
Member Spotlight: Ensuro
Marco, why did you found Ensuro?
I was looking for a way to connect decentralised finance (DeFi) to the real world. Insurance was a good fit for two reasons.
Firstly, an insurance contract is essentially a set of rules: if a loss ...
November 10, 2022
Driving scale and revenue with embedded insurance
Chubb is one of the largest global property and casualty insurance companies. It provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to individuals, families and businesses of all sizes.
Sean Ringsted is the Chief Digital ...
October 27, 2022
Understanding and transferring climate risks: 2 takeaways from WRMA European Event 2022
Understanding and transferring climate risks: 2 takeaways from WRMA European Event 2022
Key Takeaways:
Buyers of insurance need to understand their risks better to become more confident with parametric products
Climate change risk reporting makes parametric risk transfer more relevant
WRMA is a market association of insurers, ...
October 21, 2022
Freight insurance – variable, reliable, available
Loadsure is a Lloyd’s backed MGA using analytics to automate the underwriting of shipped goods and cargo.
Matthew Grant is joined by Johnny McCord, Founder and CEO of Loadsure. Topics they discuss include the benefits of an instant embedded solution to offer insurance, why ...