Technology
Why digital isn't doomsday for general insurance brokers
Accenture’s Hammad Rafique explains how brokers can use technology to reinvent themselves.
In Focus: Technology and schemes
Eleanore Robinson examines how new technology is impacting on the schemes market for brokers.
InsurTech Futures: Five Insurtech predictions for 2017
John Warburton predicts how the tech landscap will develop and affect brokers next year
SSP users warned of further problems
Users received a text message this morning advising of issues with Outlook and Webmail services.
InsurTech Futures: Digital Fineprint closes $400,000 investment round
Investors in the InsurTech start-up include Eos Venture Partners and Twitter VP Shailesh Rao.
InsurTech Futures: Startupbootcamp chooses 10 firms for 2017 cohort
Artificial intelligence, big data, and drones among the Top 10 InsurTech startups selected for Startupbootcamp InsurTech 2017 programme.
Meet the techies: Lukas Oberhuber
Simply Business chief technology officer Lukas Oberhuber talks us through what brokers need to know about technology and disruption.
InsurTech Futures: Brokers could be replaced by robots
Experts warn that customers sometimes “prefer” service and advice from a machine.
SSP confirms further outage
The software house insisted that the problems regarding connectivity are now resolved.
Five reasons why brokers should get ahead with telematics
Black Friday means increasing deliveries and more drivers. Wunelli’s Selim Cavanagh explains why now is a good time for brokers to get into telematics.
Digital Broker Bristol: Catch up
Catch up on news from our Digital Broker event in Bristol.
InsurTech Futures: Axa teams up with Trov app
The UK partnership allows customers to buy insurance on demand via the Trov app.
Insurtech Futures: Wrisk app partners with Munich Re
The mobile-based insurance provider was set up by Oxygen founder Nigel Barton
SSP CEO says glitch has been "difficult and frustrating"
Software house says some customers are still experiencing intermittent problems with Microsoft Outlook.
Biba concerned at SSP's lack of communication
SSP is not providing their contracted service or suitable communications to brokers, Biba warned.
SSP users are back online
Software firm states the next scheduled update will be at 10:00am today.
Chaos for brokers as SSP system breaks down again
The software house has come under fire once more after running into problems for the second time in a week.
SSP says systems fully “up and running”
Software house states that systems are all back to normal following disruption yesterday.
SSP users suffer new disruption
The disruption follows the major outage of the software house’s pure platform earlier this year.
Open GI partners with Bluefin to expand trading platform
Two schemes added to PowerPlace.
FCA reveals list of firms in innovation ‘sandbox’
One insurance organisation is part of the FCA scheme which is designed to support innovators navigate the regulatory system.
InsurTech Futures: PwC launches InsurTech academy
The InsurTech Academy was established by think-tank Z/Yen and sponsored by PwC.
Management: The great wave of innovation
The insurance sector has been slow to adopt the digital age, says Colin Dean, but that is changing fast
News analysis: Outage aftermath sparks broker concerns
In the wake of problems at SSP, many brokers are questioning their software providers’ robustness