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The insurance value chain is changing. More business than ever is being underwritten by MGAs. Some consumer insurance is increasingly ‘embedded’ into other products. The whole market continues to search for efficient ways to match capital to risk and close the insurance protection gap.

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January 6, 2021
The Friends’ Forecast 2021 – Five more themes, 20 people, Part Two
We had so many great predictions for 2021 when we crowdsourced 20 InsTech London friends for their opinion, I’ve published it in two parts. Part One – the first six predictions – is here. And the radio edit podcast was published on 3rd January on  and already ...
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December 17, 2020
Capital, culture and challenging the status quo
Rod Fox co-founded TigerRisk Partners in 2008 after spotting a gap in the reinsurance market. Just over a decade later, the company has established itself in a leadership role and a reputation for innovation. Rod joins Matthew on Episode 116 to discuss how the company has grown, ...
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June 19, 2020
Fast, effective, affordable – building an MGA for the new economy
Founded in 2016 by David Daiches and Dan Bratshpis INSHUR is an MGA making it easier for professional rideshare drivers –  including those coming under New York’s TLC (Taxi and Limousine Commission) –  get insurance coverage in the US and UK working closely with Uber, ...
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January 13, 2020
An Englishman in New York
Episode 63 of the InsTech London podcast features a return from Bernard Goyder, a journalist with Insurance Insider. Bernard is currently on a posting to New York, having previously been the Insurance Insiders’ technology correspondent in London. We last featured Bernard in June 2019 shortly after ...
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January 6, 2020
Building a Management Liability MGA
The role and potential for MGAs was much discussed in 2019, with some significant fundraising and acquisitions. Jacqueline McNamee, a former underwriter, became frustrated with the speed of innovation at her previous employer and launched C-Quence in 2017. Matthew interviewed Jacqueline for one of the keynote presentations ...
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September 30, 2019
James Slaughter; Chief Underwriting Officer, Global Risk Solutions at Liberty Mutual Insurance
Matthew talks to James about what drew him to insurance and the challenge of bringing change and new technology to the underwriting of large and complex risks. Liberty Mutual is the world’s fifth-largest property & casualty insurer. James Slaughter is responsible for ...
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August 30, 2019
Podcast 42. Adrian Jones, Head of Ventures and Strategic Partnerships, SCOR
In this episode Matthew Grant talks to Adrian Jones who heads up Ventures & Strategic Partnerships at SCOR Global P&C, the #5 global reinsurer. P&C Ventures, one of the more active VCs in re/insurance, is fully embedded within SCOR and invests ...
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April 23, 2019
Podcast 24. The insurtech MGAs (Part Three). Evari, Laka, Zurich and Envelop
In this third and final podcast from the InsTech London evening event “MGA, the new frontier for Insurtech”  recorded live at The Steelyard London on 2nd April, join Matthew Grant on the sofa as he talks to the founders and partners of three more ...
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April 23, 2019
Podcast 23. The insurtech MGAs (Part Two). Equipsme, Genasys, Descartes Underwriting, Archipelago and Xceedance
Three more “sofa sessions” in the second extract from our “MGA, the new frontier for Insurtech” evening event recorded live at The Steelyard London on 2nd April. Robin Merttens talks to Matthew Reed founder of health insurance for business provider Equipsme and Andre Symes from ...
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April 15, 2019
MGAs: the fast track to insurance innovation?
First published by Matthew Grant on 9th April 2019 on Linkedin They sit in a hazy nether region between brokers and insurers. Outside of insurance most people will never hear of them. Even those that know of their existence are often only vaguely aware of the ...
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April 15, 2019
Podcast 22: The MGA insurtechs (Part One): Coverly, Tarian, Digital Asset Services with Artificial & Insurtech Gateway
In this episode we bring you the first three discussions we had on stage at our evening event “MGA: The new frontier for Insurtech”.  First up is Bryan Phillips from small business insurance provider Coverly describing why they decided to offer ...