Regulation
FCA claims Gap action will save consumers £70m
The Financial Conduct Authority has said consumers will save around £70m due to improvements firms must make to guaranteed asset protection insurance products.
ABI’s Gurga on why the regulator should follow the Chancellor’s positive lead
Hannah Gurga, director general of the Association of British Insurers, says regulators should take note of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s optimism at this week’s Labour Party conference.
PRA to reduce oversight of Lloyd’s managing agents
The Prudential Regulatory Authority has said that Lloyd’s managing agents will face a “lower level of supervisory interaction”, as the regulator moves to deliver on its competitiveness and growth objective.
Sir Trevor Phillips warns insurers face a ‘reckoning’
Sir Trevor Phillips, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, has revealed that “more than any other industry,” the insurance sector needs to tackle the disparate way it treats customers.
Lessons insurers should learn from Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing
Editor’s View: Emma Ann Hughes questions whether the fallout from Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing approach to selling Oasis tickets could have an impact on insurance premiums.
ABI starts allyship training after Sexism in the City
The Association of British Insurers has rolled out allyship training to its member firms in response to the Treasury Select Committee’s Sexism in the City findings.
Spotlight: Why insurance can’t afford to ignore RegTech
With growing regulatory demands, Zoë Parsons, marketing manager of REG Technologies, points out that RegTech is increasingly a necessity rather than a luxury for insurers.
CII criticises insurers’ profiting from premium finance
The Chartered Insurance Institute has questioned the ethics of making money from customers who pay monthly for insurance after Which? found several motor and home insurers were charging what the consumer watchdog called “excessively high levels of…
Spotlight: Tackling insurance’s regulatory tsunami
Waves of regulatory initiatives are driving up costs, reducing profitability and slowing down business. How can insurance firms respond to these challenges?
Spotlight: Insurance’s regulatory burden – are we to blame?
The insurance industry is under immense pressure from an increasing regulatory burden, but to what extent are firms themselves to blame for failing to adopt modern technology and processes?
Which? reveals insurer premium finance APRs
Research conducted by Which? has found that several motor and home insurers are charging what the consumer watchdog called “excessively high levels of interest on monthly payments.”
Electric vehicles and the future of motor insurance
How will the rise of electric vehicles and the FCA’s Consumer Duty affect the car hire and replacement vehicle market?
Sorry saga signals signposting shortcomings
Editor’s View: Emma Ann Hughes argues the regulator needs to check how and when travel insurers are directing people with pre-existing medical conditions towards alternative products and services.
FCA is banging its head against a wall on fair value
News Editor’s View: Following yet another thematic review where the Financial Conduct Authority says firms are unable to show fair value, and are even breaching rules, Scott McGee considers how the regulator could tackle poor conduct and asks if a…
Changes at the top of FOS as Rachel Lam leaves post
Insurance Post has been informed that Rachel Lam is no longer in her position as ombudsman director of insurance at the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Insurers that paused EDI work told to redouble efforts
The insurance industry may need to renew ethnicity and disability data collection efforts due to Labour’s diversity pay reporting proposals.
Operational resilience: will insurers meet the March 2025 deadline?
Sarah Ouarbya, partner for financial services consulting at Forvis Mazars, examines how insurers should prepare for the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority’s operational resilience rules coming into force.
What Labour’s victory means for litigation funding in insurance
With a new Labour government in power, Glenn Newberry, head of litigation funding and costs at Eversheds Sutherland, reflects on what this could mean for litigation funding in the insurance industry.
Q&A: Mike Keating, MGAA
Mike Keating, CEO of the Managing General Agents’ Association, discusses the buoyancy of managing general agents, some of the struggles in the high-net-worth space, and what he hopes his organisation will achieve by the end of 2025.
FCA uncovers little progress on Gap insurance value
The Financial Conduct Authority has today (21 August) released its latest fair value measures data, which shows while there has been progress on the proportion of premiums paid out in guaranteed asset protection claims, it is still low.
Regulator to reduce red tape for general insurers
Editor’s View: Emma Ann Hughes reflects on how general insurers should be careful about what they wish for from the Financial Conduct Authority's review of the rules governing financial services.