31 Oct, 2016 Digital transformation and industry stacks By Mike Daly Digital disruption is not just about new technology, it is about whole industrial stacks evolving and it is the organisations that own...
29 Oct, 2016 The need for pre-seed By Paolo Cuomo Most of the (slowly) growing number of staff from insurance incumbents now engaging with the InsurTech movement are understandably...
28 Oct, 2016 HR Analytics an oxymoron? By Mike Daly LSE explores why HR generally failing to use analytics effectively. Agree that too often they go for large, complex and lengthy projects...
27 Oct, 2016 InsurTechs: eating lunch or bringing lunch? By Paolo Cuomo Bernard Lunn of Daily Fintech offers the concept of two types of FinTech (InsurTech) start-ups: those out to eat your lunch, and those...
25 Oct, 2016 SpeedTech 2 - Robotics By Paolo Cuomo The 2nd London Market TOM Innovation Exchange SpeedTech event (wow, that's a lot of nouns in a row!) took place on 24 October,...
24 Oct, 2016 Global and comprehensive data vital By Mike Daly Successful Insurtech innovation depends on having access to all the data necessary for making and executing better decisions. Take fire...
21 Oct, 2016 Neos Secures £1m in Seed Funding By Keenan Burgess London based InsurTech startup Neos has raised £1m in Series Seed funding led by Eos Venture Partners. Designed to prevent the damage...
21 Oct, 2016 5 large EU based insurers team up to study benefits of blockchain By Gareth Jones Aegon, Zurich, Allianz, Munich Re and Swiss Re joined forces in an attempt to put blockchain through its paces and evaluate whether the...
20 Oct, 2016 Insurance Brokers: is content marketing the secret recipe for growth? By Passle Group The insurance industry is not, as a whole, taking advantage of digital opportunities. Those who are engaging with their customers online...
20 Oct, 2016 Data does not replace INSIGHT By Mike Daly Given the $billions invested each year in BI & Analytics you may be forgiven the suspicion that existing investments fail to deliver...
19 Oct, 2016 Location Intelligence & Location Data Management By Mike Daly Location data is increasingly important as organisations analyse their users' behaviour over time and by place. Joined to external data...
19 Oct, 2016 SDNY's Kaplan denies Wells Fargo's motion to dismiss in SWIFT hack case By Peter Jaffe If you wanted clarity on the law of wire transfers, you'll have to wait. Judge Kaplan yesterday denied Wells Fargo's motion to dismiss a...
19 Oct, 2016 Group of insurers exploring blockchain in insurance By Claire Harrop The FT has reported that five major insurers (Aegon, Allianz, Munich Re, Swiss Re and Zurich) are working together to evaluate whether...
17 Oct, 2016 99% probability that underwriters will lose their jobs to algorithms by 2033? By Jenny Williams The first time alarms started going off in my head about the future of the industry I've so far invested a decade of my life into was 18...
14 Oct, 2016 This company wants to make renting in New York much easier By Gareth Jones TheGuarantors is a platform that connects renters unable to secure a lease independently with an insurance-backed guarantor through the...
13 Oct, 2016 Commercial Lines Tech Startup Embroker Now Open for Business By Gareth Jones Portfolio company Embroker, the commercial lines platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to manage, buy, analyze, compare and...