E-Trading
Remotely in control
With terms such as 'spam', 'blog' and 'Google it' populating the English language, Andrew Tjaardstra investigates the explosion in the mobile hand-held market and how these devices are becoming indispensible to some brokers
Carrying it off
Commoditisation: Brokers v. SME Direct
The weakest link?
Cyber-risk
Collaborative launch into insurer market
Collaborative Workspaces from Webb Technologies, which offers companies secure ways of transferring,...
SSP reveals healthy profit
Software Solutions Partners has made an operating profit in excess of £5m for the third consecutive ...
UK still ignoring flooding threat
The Environment Agency is warning that too many people are ignoring the risk of flooding in this cou...
Brokers face further attacks
Brokers face further attacks from direct motor insurers over the issue of adjustment fees charged in...
Sirius latest to become fully imarket integrated
Imarket has confirmed that Sirius has become fully integrated as it continues to launch insurance pr...
New research from Everest
New research from Everest, the home security firm, has revealed that around 10 million British homeo...
Stairway to e-heaven
Imarket
Brokers only interested in service speed
Financial products are more likely to be sold because of the speed of service and not for the qualit...
Software provider Wildnet has
Software provider Wildnet has introduced a consultancy service for the insurance market, with the fi...
Rock Insurance, the five-year-old
Rock Insurance, the five-year-old travel insurance broker, has celebrated its half-decade of trading...
Video conferencing boost for broker policy sales
A video conferencing system has been designed specifically to assist brokers in the sale of policies...
Gaining a strong foothold
IT market share
Misys has claimed it will soon
Misys has claimed it will soon be the first software house to offer brokers a range of full cycle ED...
Insurance companies are becoming
Insurance companies are becoming increasingly concerned that asbestos liabilities will continue to c...
Vital ABI disaster advice fails to reach travellers
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has been criticised for not promoting one of its own indus...
Zurich's UK Commercial business
Zurich's UK Commercial business has published a new guide called Managing the cost of claims which i...
The Evolution process
The motor insurance broking community often claims, and only half jokingly, that it could not even afford to put food on the family table if it relied solely on insurer commission. Simon Clayton examines an alternative income stream in the form of…
The Willis Commercial Network
The Willis Commercial Network has launched a new electronic magazine for its members, known as E-Net...
Picking a star performer
Comparison websites
Brokers miss trade due to internet snub
More than a third of brokers have no website and miss out on up to 20% of business, an internet desi...
Zurich revamps its Difficult Risk offering to aid brokers
Zurich Commercial has announced the relaunch of its Zurich Difficult Risks (ZDR) division to provide...