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Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
MoneySuperMarket launches ChatGPT app
MoneySuperMarket has launched a ChatGPT app, allowing users to access services within conversations with the large language model.
Portfolio underwriting tops insurer AI priorities
Alex Schmelkin, CEO of underwriting artificial intelligence platform Sixfold, highlighted the ability to do portfolio level underwriting as the “single biggest area” of customer interest in AI-enabled underwriting.
Blog: Claims standards are tightening, but rebuild costs are the real stress test
Claims handling is under FCA scrutiny, but rebuild factors may be shaping home insurance outcomes just as much, says Matthew Ward of RebuildCostASSESSMENT.com
Roundtable: Transforming risk management in commercial insurance
How insurers and brokers can help businesses navigate a complex risk landscape and strengthen loss prevention for the future.
Which? fears FCA’s premium finance response is a worrying omen
Rocio Concha, director of policy and advocacy at Which?, warns the Financial Conduct Authority has failed to take decisive action on costly premium finance, leaving financially vulnerable insurance customers paying over the odds.
Penny Black’s Social Diary: Zurich’s sci-fi future; ITC’s macarons
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector's social media posts.
Dunny or delight? Rating Australian forays into UK insurance
Content Director’s View: With Australian firm AUB Group doubling down on its UK growth plans with a deal for Prestige Insurance Holdings, Jonathan Swift reviews other notable Antipodean overseas insurance expansion plans to assess its chances of success.
What is on the London market’s wishlist for a Blueprint Two review?
Reports earlier this month claimed Lloyd’s had shelved the Blueprint Two transformation project after years of delays. This leaves the question: What next?... Damisola Sulaiman finds out what the market wants.
Softening market puts spotlight on tech capability
A softening market is pushing London Market brokers to favour technologically advanced insurers, according to research from Guidewire.
Zurich UK achieves 21% increase in P&C profit
Zurich UK has today (19 February) has reported a 12% increase in overall business operating profit to £639m (2024: £570m).
Minster Law reports improved profitability
Minster Law has reported improved profitability for the year ending June 2025, while also targeting a milestone level of turnover by 2030.
How CROs can swap rituals for real risk leadership
View from the Top: Darren Boland, chief risk officer at Markerstudy, reflects on how AI and other developments are changing the world of risk, and how CROs can rise to the occasion.
Throwback Thursday: Writing gaffs; Don’t ring us
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to February 1971 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when insurers were shown how to improve their writing and providers made house calls.
Q&A: Greg Ferguson, Bridge Specialty
Greg Ferguson, Bridge Specialty International’s new CEO of international distribution, reveals how he intends to accelerate the growth of the business outside the US.
Close Brothers to no longer seek permission for commission
Close Brothers Premium Finance has announced a change to its commission disclosure and consent requirements, reversing moves it made last year.
Avantia ditches old cloud provider for Google
Avantia Group, the parent company of specialist home insurer Homeprotect, is in the process of migrating to Google Cloud primarily due to the provider’s artificial intelligence “conviction”.
Why insurance’s culture of utmost good faith is under threat
After nearly four decades working in general insurance, Brett Sainty, CEO of BLW Insurance Brokers, warns that rising enforcement action, commercial pressures and mounting broker debt signal a dangerous erosion of integrity, trust and the doctrine of utmost good faith at the heart of the industry.
Softening market: will underwriters hold their nerve?
Whether the softening market will see some underwriters lose their discipline and how it will reshape broker/carrier relations is the focus of the latest episode of the Insurance Post Podcast.
Geopolitical instability and trade policy risk rocking marine insurance
Escalating geopolitical tensions, from conflict-driven shipping attacks and vessel detentions to sanctions, tariffs and the growth of shadow fleets, are reshaping global trade routes. Against this backdrop, Tim Evershed observes significantly heightened risk exposures for the marine insurance market.
Aviva monitoring other DLG brands following By Miles closure
Aviva is monitoring the Direct Line Group brands it brought in as part of the £3.7bn acquisition, after By Miles was discontinued earlier this year.
Property claims cost insurers a record £6.1bn in 2025
Insurers paid out a record £6.1bn in property claims in 2025, according to the Association of British Insurers’ latest data.
60 Seconds With... M2 Recovery’s Matt Green
Matt Green, non-executive director at crypto recovery firm M2 Recovery, talks lost digital money, landmark cases, and sending his first paycheck to a Kenyan school.
Big Interview: Russell White, NPA Insurance and Peach
Russell White, CEO of NPA Insurance and Peach, sits down with Harry Curtis to explain how the government’s plans to reshape the NHS are fuelling ambitions to write a varied portfolio of MGA and schemes business.
Why the industry must start to think and act differently about uninsured driving
Trade Voice: Angus Eaton, CEO of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau, explains how the organisation’s Accelerating to Zero strategy plans to end the scourge of uninsured driving once and for all.
Ex-copper comes a cropper for defrauding insurance shoppers
Five people, including a former police officer, have been arrested following an operation by the City of London Police, the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department and the Metropolitan Police Service.