Insurtech
A diagnostic for leadership: The performance gap under pressure
Five structural gaps are widening the performance divide in insurance organisations. This whitepaper pinpoints five gaps that determine performance under pressure and highlights three diagnostic tools that enable insurers to shift from diagnosis to decision.
AI will amplify rather than replace underwriting expertise
Allison Hamilton, head of US customer success at Cytora, argues the industry’s future will depend not on replacing experienced underwriters with artificial intelligence, but on helping them adapt and use technology to enhance their judgement.
Q&A: David Daiches, Inshur
David Daiches, COO and co-founder of Inshur, discusses the insurtech’s partnership with DoorDash in the US, regulatory differences, and how close it is to profitability.
15 insurtechs compete in ‘record-breaking’ Lloyd’s Lab
Lloyd’s Lab ran its 17th cohort pitch day on Thursday (10 September) as start-ups competed in the realms of space-weather data, weather intervention, and frontier-AI forecasting.
Why connected data is the real AI advantage in insurance
What separates insurers who experiment with AI from those who scale it into real, measurable outcomes? This blog highlights some key takeaways from a recent discussion between Microsoft and AutoRek which explored the power of connected AI data within…
Why data readiness comes before AI in insurance
How can insurers continue to evolve without losing the visibility, accuracy, and confidence needed to operate at scale? This blog highlights why getting the foundations right, including data readiness, holds the key to making AI a genuine accelerator…
How does the London Market keep its edge post-Blueprint Two?
Following the shelving of Blueprint Two, Tom Luckham explores how the London market is learning from the successes and failures of the programme in order to transform the technical capabilities of the sector.
Case study: How automation transformed insurance payment matching and allocation
A leading Irish insurance broker and financial services provider, serving public sector policyholders, faced operational strain from a manual payment allocation process. This case study explores how the organisation leveraged AutoRek’s platform to…
Bordereaux reconciliation explained: Standardising risk, premium and claims data
Insurance operations depend on a web of data exchanges between brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, reinsurers, and banks. This content explains how bordereaux sits at the centre of this web by tracking risks, premiums, and claims as they move…
Does your AI accelerate solutions or amplify the status quo?
For most insurers, the question has moved past whether to adopt AI. However, what’s still unresolved is whether the operating model underneath that AI can keep pace with change. This blog highlights why the quality of an insurer’s operating model…
Q&A: Tim Hardcastle, Instanda
Tim Hardcastle, CEO and co-founder of Instanda, speaks to Insurance Post about the progress of his complex commercial lines product, promising underwriting agentic pilots, and the ‘black box’ limit in artificial intelligence.
To AI or not to AI is not the question in underwriting
Rory Yates, managing director for insurance at Synechron, examines how artificial intelligence is impacting underwriting.
Your P&C personalisation problem isn't a data problem
The personalisation gap in P&C insurance is real. But at its core it isn’t a data problem or a technology problem - it’s an operating system problem. This blog highlights how insurers can enhance personalisation by addressing the decision gap between…
Don’t hold your breath for an FCA rulebook on AI
The UK insurance sector is waiting for a Financial Conduct Authority rulebook on AI that is never coming, warns Loka Venkatramana, senior consultant at compliance consultancy Pathlight Associates.
WaniWani CEO on how agentic AI is rewriting insurance distribution
As consumers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence agents to search for and buy insurance, Robin Diligent, co-founder and CEO at Waniwani, says insurers must rethink distribution strategies or risk becoming invisible at the point of purchase.
Which duo rank as the UK’s top insurance Power Pair?
For her first ever comment article for Post, Penny Black ranks the UK insurance industry's most credible couplings, deal-tastic duos and peerless pairs that are the envy of all their rivals.
Zego puts AI at heart of next phase of growth
Zego has unveiled plans to deepen its product offering across all four of its UK motor verticals in the year ahead and “lead the insurance industry” on artificial intelligence adoption.
Q&A: Chris Jolley and Jeff Mountford, WHO2 Global
WHO2 Global co-founders Chris Jolley, CEO, and Jeff Mountford, chief technology officer, reveal how the start-up’s Benchmarq360 uses data, artificial intelligence, and experience to improve the way insurers work.
Beyond static operating models that keep insurers stuck
For many insurance leaders, what worked in past cycles won’t carry you forward today. This blog highlights why operating models need to change and how insurers can achieve sharper pricing and faster claims.
The three invisible pricing decisions that erode your insurance portfolio
Most underperforming portfolios are not the result of bad pricing strategy. They are the result of good pricing strategy that lost precision between the committee room and the bind. This blog highlights three invisible pricing decisions that erode…
CDL chief predicts agentic AI will reshape insurance expectations
Insurers must be ready for how consumer expectations will shift when artificial intelligence agentic agents “do our shopping for us”, according to CDL CEO Nigel Phillips.