August 7, 2026
The MGA market has entered its proving phase
After years of rapid expansion, softer pricing and tougher capacity negotiations are forcing MGAs to demonstrate what sits beneath the growth. Five signals from across the delegated authority market suggest the next phase will be defined by data, discipline and genuine underwriting edge.
June 15, 2026
Soft market survival skills: how MGAs can succeed
InsTech explored how MGAs can succeed as the market softens and carriers become more selective, examining the practical skills needed to demonstrate strong data governance, disciplined underwriting and operational resilience while diversifying capacity and adapting to evolving expectations.
June 9, 2026
The MGA boom meets its first soft market
As the insurance market softens, MGAs are facing tougher scrutiny from capacity providers, regulators and investors. This article explores why governance, data quality and underwriting discipline are becoming the key differentiators between MGAs built to thrive through the cycle and those that grew up in a hard market.
February 22, 2026
Building the modern MGA
In this episode, Robin Merttens sits down with Frank Perkins, CEO and Co-founder of inari, to explore what it really takes to build and scale a modern MGA in 2026.
January 11, 2026
Bringing the joy back to underwriting
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Andy Yeoman, CEO of Concirrus, to unpack how a key player in marine insurance tech has reinvented itself as a core platform provider for the specialty market, and what that transformation says about where the industry is heading.
November 28, 2025
Seizing the white box opportunity to thrive in an embedded insurance world
Jaime Esteban Molina explores how insurance is shifting from opaque "black box" systems to transparent "white box" models. He explains why embedded insurance alone isn't enough, and how next-generation platforms enable the configurability, speed and openness insurers need to thrive in today's ecosystem-driven marketplace.
November 9, 2025
The case for certainty and real-time insight in insurance
In this episode, Matthew Grant sits down with Jonathan Rake, CEO of Risk Data Solutions at Swiss Re, to explore how a major reinsurer is building data and analytics as core capabilities beyond traditional risk‑transfer.
September 14, 2025
How portfolio thinking and data science are rewiring cyber reinsurance
Jonathan Spry, CEO and co-founder of Envelop Risk, joins Robin Merttens for a deep dive into how data science, AI and portfolio-level modelling are transforming cyber reinsurance.
September 7, 2025
The global push: Why US insurance tech is eyeing Europe
Robin Merttens speaks with Chris Quirk, VP and General Manager at Insurity, to unpack the drivers behind the company’s international expansion and what it signals for the wider market.
August 24, 2025
Where is specialty insurance headed in 10 years?
In this panel discussion from InsTech’s Outpace. Outprice. Outperform event, Robin Merttens leads a conversation with four senior experts on the future of the market and the forces that could reshape it.
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.
