Managing general agents (MGAs)

Roundtable: The rush to technology

The seemingly headlong rush by insurers to connect everything, pulling together fragmented legacy systems and IT architecture has left many of them struggling to find the right solutions. Post gathered a group of experts together to see how firms are…

UK General in advanced sales talks

Exclusive: UK General Insurance is in “advanced” sale “negotiations”, Post can reveal, with market sources tipping Primary Group as poised to buy the firm back.

Insurance Monitor: Brexit: finding corridors of deviation

In this month's column, David Worsfold, a long-running commentator on the insurance market, explores how the insurance industry could find itself rather lonely in its corridors of deviation after Brexit is finalised, the complexities of Covid-19 for the…

Analysis: Rise of the clones

Insurance clone warnings doubled last year, as fraudsters got creative in their attempts to scam the public. Post investigates the rise of the clones and asks why it is so tough to police these fraudulent firms

Pukka hits pause on business

Exclusive: Motor managing general agent Pukka has temporarily suspended trading, having reached its capacity limit with providers.

This Week: Getting stuff done

Helios has (almost) done his work and got the week done. Probably because he has an oven ready plan. To leave the working week and enter the weekend.

MGA Mole: Why is client 'confidentiality' a dirty word?

Post has enlisted a managing general agent industry mole to lift the lid on what the sector is really like. In the first of this new series, our anonymous commentator asks why the industry isn't more careful with customers' information and warns that -…

Blog: Are MGAs a desirable route to market for insurtechs?

There is so much talk about collaboration between insurtechs and insurers or managing general agents, but John Price, chief operating officer at Scheme Serve, asks is this collaboration out of design or necessity and are managing general agents a good…

Markerstudy restructures loan with QIC

Markerstudy has restructured its £240m plus loan with Qatar Insurance Company in a move the company said was a long-term solution “providing security to customers and suppliers”.

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