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Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Insurance Post Census 2026: Have your say
Insurance Post’s Census is back, and we need your help to achieve a snapshot of the make-up of the industry in 2026.
Best Insurance Employers to work for in 2026 revealed
QBE and Equipsme are the UK’s best large and small to medium-sized insurance respectively to work for respectively, according to Insurance Post’s Best Insurance Employers survey.
Dive In 2026 opens registration for final festival year
Registration has opened for the final Dive In festival, with Lloyd’s famous diversity and inclusion event this year exploring how human skills and artificial intelligence can work together.
British Insurance Awards 2026 winners revealed
Triple winner QBE was crowned General Insurer of the Year and Dame Sue Langley, the Lady Mayor of the City of London, picked up the Achievement Award at the 2026 British Insurance Awards last night (8 July).
London Market Group reveals collapse in early careers hiring
Early careers hiring in the London market has fallen by almost a quarter, with another 25% decline forecast next year, prompting warnings that under-30s could account for just 7% of the workforce within a decade.
Pride exposes prejudice LGBTQ+ individuals face in insurance
Editor’s View: LGBTQ+ network Link’s latest survey shows many insurance professionals still feel pressure to hide parts of themselves at work, which Emma Ann Hughes argues highlights the need for insurers to move beyond Pride branding and ‘pinkwashing’…
Penny Black’s Social Diary: Markerstudy’s green fingers
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.
Why insurance should be winning the war for talent
View from the Top: Frank Streidl, head of commercial insurance for Zurich UK, lays out why the industry needs to a better job at challenging misconceptions around working in insurance.
Lloyd’s culture head Lomas to exit
Mark Lomas, head of culture at Lloyd’s, is to leave the London Market after four years in the role.
Best Insurance Employer Award shortlist revealed
Insurance Post can reveal the 11 companies in the running to be crowned the industry’s best employers at the British Insurance Awards on 8 July.
Insurance industry’s most powerful leaders revealed
Insurance Post’s Power List cuts through the noise to reveal who really moved markets, shifted outcomes and shaped the UK general insurance sector over the last 12 months.
Steven Wallace, McLarens
Steven Wallace, managing director for EMEA at McLarens, is shaping the future of technical claims services for complex, commercial and specialty markets.
Donna Scully, Carpenters
Irish-born and proudly from Dublin, Donna Scully is joint owner and director of Carpenters Group, a provider of outsourced insurance and legal solutions.
Steve Hardy, Policy Expert
Steve Hardy has form when it comes to building challenger brands that punch above their weight.
Simon McGinn, Dual UK
Simon McGinn joined Dual UK as CEO in early 2024 with a clear mandate: to accelerate the MGA’s growth while reinforcing the provider’s regional presence and strengthening its service proposition.
Matthew Crummack, Domestic & General
Matthew Crummack has been CEO of Domestic & General since October 2021 and saw the nation’s biggest appliances insurer bought by US-based Asurion at the end of 2025.
Paul Morden, Munich Re
Paul Morden, CEO of Munich Re UK’s branch is responsible for shaping and delivering reinsurance strategy across the UK and Ireland.
Kevin Spencer, Markerstudy
Kevin Spencer has built Markerstudy into a UK insurance powerhouse with millions of policyholders, but is now working under a Financial Conduct Authority-imposed cap on customer numbers while concerns raised by the regulator are addressed.
Rob Worrell, Everywhen
Rob Worrell has been CEO of Everywhen, formerly known as Ardonagh Advisory, since December 2017 and leads an organisation that spans networks, general insurance, employee benefits and MGAs.
Jason Harris, QBE
Jason Harris’s leadership of QBE International has been defined by impact, innovation, inclusivity and recently an armful of trophies at Insurance Post’s British Insurance Awards.