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February 16, 2023
Flood modelling goes global
We’re covering two main themes here – building a business that survives and thrives after ten years – and assessing the growing risk from a flood.
We’ve been working closely with Fathom for many years.
In Matthew Grant’s discussion with the co-founders of Fathom, ...
February 7, 2023
Fathom and Reask: Tropical Cyclone and Flood – Managing Tomorrow’s Climate Risk Today
Fathom and Reask: Tropical Cyclone and Flood – Managing Tomorrow’s Climate Risk Today
For insurers, catastrophe models and hazard data are essential for risk selection, pricing and portfolio management. It is necessary to ensure that no singular catastrophic event can disproportionately impact the loss to ...
January 30, 2023
Live Chat: Property Intelligence – understanding and managing natural hazards
Data and analytical tools to identify and measure the potential impact of natural hazards were first released about 30 years ago and have continued to evolve and expand since. Preventing or reducing losses by identifying and incentivising actions the policyholder can take to make their property ...
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’...
January 20, 2023
Helping underwriting risk submissions glide through your business flow
Cytora is well known in London and increasingly in the US too, as providing analytics for insurers – founded in 2014 and with some well-known clients including Allianz, Beazley and Markel – this is another company that’s made the transition from start-up to scale-up.
Richard Hartley is ...
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 19, 2022
InsTech Partners’ Podcast Live from QBE Ventures
Partners’ Chat Live at QBE Ventures – Guest host: Peta Kilian, UK Head of Strategy and Partnerships, QBE Ventures
We’re back with our occasional “Partner Chats”. Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant reflect on what is going on in the world of innovation and insurance. As ...
December 16, 2022
Partners’ Chat Live at QBE Ventures
We’re back with our occasional “Partner Chats”. Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant reflect on what is going on in the world of innovation and insurance. As usual, there are some things to celebrate, and some things to grumble about.
We are the guests of ...
December 13, 2022
Making Risk Flow Podcast – Digital first operating models
We’ve released over 200 podcasts through our usual InsTech channel. At InsTech, we’re also keen listeners of other people’s podcasts. During 2023, we will be sharing a selection of the podcasts that we like, or appear in, through an occasional mid-week or holiday season ...
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 ...
December 9, 2022
Tropical Cyclone – Managing Tomorrow’s Climate Risk Today
In this episode we cover the highlights of our recent live event in London “Tropical Cyclone – Managing Tomorrow’s Climate Risk Today with Reask and Fathom”. We heard about how insurers and portfolio managers are taking account of the increased need to understand the combined ...
December 5, 2022
The Demex Group: tackling the challenges of severe thunderstorm risk
Member Spotlight: The Demex Group
Henry: What is the history of the Demex Group?
Matt: The Demex Group is a technology-enabled MGA. Demex analyses, prices and structures climate risk transfer products, with a focus on non-catastrophic climate perils.
It was founded as an insurtech start-up ...
