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Rebecca Gambrell: Aviva seeks to ‘raise the bar’ on eTrading service following 2024’s five star success

2025-02-24T07:00:00+00:00By

As Insurance Times’ 2025 eTrading survey is currently being completed by UKGI brokers, Aviva’s SME and delegated authorities managing director says the insurer ‘constantly [feels] pressure to improve and make sure that we’re not standing still’ around digital trading

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Aviva to launch new digital products and modularise eTraded commercial combined offering

2025-02-12T07:00:00+00:00By

The eTrading product update is designed to give brokers greater flexibility and increased confidence to place larger, more complex risks online, says SME and delegated authorities managing director

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Aventum to invest $12m into technology over two years

2025-01-21T12:35:00+00:00By

’Just like the development of an F1 car, there will be a lot of resilience testing, but at the end of it, we’ll have a high performance vehicle and no one will catch us,’ says chief executive

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Insurance Times launches 2025 eTrading survey for UKGI brokers

2025-01-21T07:00:00+00:00By

Insurance Times’ annual eTrading survey is now open for UK brokers to share their views on their eTrading experiences with insurers and software houses over the last 12 months

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Demystifying machine learning – Open GI

2024-12-24T13:00:00+00:00By Damian Baxter

Damian Baxter, chief executive at Machine Learning Programs (MLP) – part of software company Open GI – breaks down what UKGI needs to know about artificial intelligence and machine learning

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IT Interview

Laura Drabik: Spotlighting the ‘hottest new insurtechs’

2024-12-13T12:00:00+00:00By

’Carriers don’t have time to investigate’ up and coming insurtech propositions, so software firm offers incubation scheme to do the hard work for them

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Jo Sykes: Markel UK set ‘to invest in future growth’ for 2025

2024-12-10T08:00:00+00:00By

In particular, schemes with brokers will be a ‘focus’ for the ‘end-to-end’ insurer next year, says divisional director

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TechTalk: Insurers still grappling with legacy system challenges

2024-12-06T09:00:00+00:00By

If legacy technology is not updated coherently across the supply chain, this could ’create inconsistent customer experiences at different points in the customer journey’, says law firm chief executive

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Generative AI-backed predictive modelling underpins market ‘overperformers’ – Guidewire

2024-11-28T15:00:00+00:00By

’Generative AI [is] able to get all that unstructured data and make structured elements – [it] fuels the ability to create models,’ says senior vice-president

Will Paskins, Zurich

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Zurich Municipal expands online self-serve quote journey to improve product take up

2024-11-11T07:00:00+00:00By

The insurer is also ‘open to exploring’ more opportunities with broker partners, says head of digital trading and partnerships

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Esure chief executive reveals challenges of provider’s three-year transformation

2024-11-07T13:00:00+00:00By

’It is by far the biggest challenge I have undertaken in the industry, but it is also the most rewarding,’ says top boss

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MGAs take up tech tools in battle for relevancy

2024-11-06T08:00:00+00:00By

‘Without innovation, an MGA offers no differentiation’, says chief executive – but how are these firms tapping into technology to stay ahead of the competition?

Ashleigh Gwilliam Director of Insurance Industry Growth Fullcircl

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Insurance Times Awards 2024: FullCircl and Acturis deliver ‘rich, contextualised and connected data solution’

2024-10-23T11:30:00+01:00By Insurance Times

Ashleigh Gwilliam, director of insurance industry growth at FullCircl, discusses its partnership with Acturis and entry into the Business Partner of the Year award

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Amrit Santhirasenan: Hyperexponential growing organically amid AI revolution

2024-10-22T07:00:00+01:00By

’Technology has had massive leverage on different parts of society, but insurance is an area where it is still relatively early in modernisation compared to other sectors,’ says chief executive

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Insurtech 50 cover

In 2023 we launched our inaugural Insurtech 50 report, produced exclusively by Insurance Times and based on data provided by business management consultancy Oxbow Partners.

This report collates a portfolio of the 50 most innovative UKGI insurtechs that insurers and brokers should have on their partnership radar, based on specific criteria defined by Insurance Times to reflect the needs and interests of our readership.

Read the report