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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Gaia uses medical data to offer personalised financial plans to remove the financial barriers to accessing fertility care. It is the world’s first IVF (in vitro fertilisation) insurance product that predicts fertility outcomes and insures against the risk of failure. Robin Merttens is joined ...

Member spotlight: Loadsure What was your motivation for founding Loadsure? Over 60% of cargo in transit is reported to be underinsured (a figure which Loadsure estimates to be closer to 80-90%). The 300-year-old freight insurance industry has been slow to embrace new technologies and ways of ...

InsTech event write-up: From MGA to full-stack insurer: Everything you need to know It is a good time to be an MGA. There has been significant growth amongst both new and traditional agencies. Inevitably, many MGAs are looking at the potential next stage of their ...

World Innovation Lab (WiL) is a US & Japan-based venture capital firm with capital from governments and leading global corporations based in Japan and throughout Asia. The company’s vision is to be the bridge between startups and corporates in key hubs across the globe – ...

Member spotlight: Pen Underwriting Can you give us a brief introduction to Pen Underwriting? Founded in 2015, Pen is a multi-class, multi-territory MGA, which brought together twelve different MGA businesses, to create a single cohesive business. The first five years of Pen’s journey were effectively ...

Member Spotlight: bolttech Henry: Can you give a brief overview of what bolttech does? Andrew: bolttech plans to build a technology-enabled ecosystem for insurance. It connects insurers, distribution partners and customers to make buying and selling insurance easier. bolttech’s insurance exchange helps insurers tap ...

It is a good time to be an MGA. There has been significant growth amongst both new and traditional agencies. Inevitably, many MGAs are looking at the potential next stage of their evolution – becoming a full-stack insurer.  According to an Insurtech UK survey, 57% of ...