Commentators agree that software house cooperation on commercial lines digital trading is only happening in ‘pockets’, yet this teamwork could ‘provide the broking community with the tools they need to deliver an efficient but high level of service to customers’
Nikki Lidster, head of SME and trading at Zurich Insurance, talks about the firm’s entry for the Excellence in Professional Development – Broker/Insurer/MGA award
Five firms are competing to win the Digital Broker of the Year award at this year’s Insurance Times Awards
Mark Thomas, chief executive at Compare My Insurance, discusses the firm’s reasons for entering the Digital Broker of the Year category
RSA director notes there is a ’clear market demand for the job software houses do’
UK chief executive flags ‘really good energy’ at the specialist insurer as it targets retail growth ‘between 5% and 15% at the right level of profit’ over four-year strategy duration
’We see our role in the market to empower our brokers to write more and better quality business, as well as improving the lives of anyone using insurance products,’ says chief product officer
’We don’t want unwieldy question sets that become way too complicated for a customer and put them off eTrading,’ says head of eTrading
’Complex [risks are] not that easy to compare. [They often have] terms and conditions which need quite a lot of interpretation,’ says co-chief executive
Market-wide appetite ‘to trade more in a digital way’ sees insurer commit to roll out high net worth proposition on eTrade extranet by year-end, says chief underwriting officer
’We are at the coalface and in a good position to shape and lead the charge’ on eTrading, says chief executive
’Our focus is on making effective digitisation accessible to as many as possible, driving growth, increasing efficiency and improving margins,’ says founder and director
’We are definitely seeing the shift in terms of brokers enjoying the live chat experience,’ says head of SME trading
In the discussion, the expert panel joined deputy editor Yiannis Kotoulas to examine what makes for excellent eTrading performance – what works best, how to create eTrading excellence, the things brokers are looking for and more.
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’We can now turn our attention, as we had hoped to do all along, to building out a wider ecosystem of trading tools,’’ says chief operating officer