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Spotlight: The future of pricing - Tightening the noose
The dual pricing noose is slowly tightening around the insurance industry’s neck. Its laudable attempts to escape from the regulatory hangman seem increasingly futile as the pressure is mounting on the Financial Conduct Authority to take action. This article focuses on the implications for insurers.
How insurance contributes towards financial inclusion and affordability
In this paper, we explore the role insurance has to play in financial inclusion, the importance of affordability checks to inform decisions and the new guidance provided by the FCA in regard to assessing creditworthiness in insurance.
Let's Talk: Environmental liability
In this article, Simon Harwood-Matthews, Senior Underwriter, International Casualty – Environmental at AXA XL sheds light on how the market for environmental liability insurance has changed, how the risks faced by clients have evolved and AXA XL’s outlook for environmental business in the UK.
Autonomous technologies: An uncertain and evolving risk landscape
As autonomous vehicles continues to develop, accidents are projected to decline markedly. However, the risk management issues and implications for companies in this ecosystem are still coming into focus. This article highlights the risk and liability issues related to autonomous technologies.
The challenge of pricing cyber risk - does it feel like nailing jelly to the wall?
Cyber risk protection and mitigation present an enormous business opportunity for insurance carriers, however, calculating cyber risk is far removed from calculating typical commercial risks. This blog post briefly outlines the unique set of challenges associated with pricing cyber risks.
Risks are changing rapidly for commercial property owners
For commercial property owners, getting “smarter” means more than integrating sophisticated technology into their buildings. There are also changing market dynamics to assimilate into their business models and evolving risks to understand and manage.
Profile - MGAs: Breakthrough for MGAs
A cursory look at the trade press over the last six months indicates that the managing general agent (MGA) sector has been positively hyperactive of late. MGAs are on the up again, but have they learned the lessons of the past? Download this article to find out more.
Keeping Europe's business head above the water
UN report predicts a five-fold increase in losses from flooding in Europe which can be dramatically reduced through international cooperation.
Roundtable: Fair sharing
Short-term letting using platforms such as Airbnb is on the rise. How is the insurance sector responding? To find out more, Insurance Age in association with Pikl gathered a number of industry specialists.
Webinar: Is a replacement car what urban customers really want after an accident?
Could ‘mobility’ be the next big differentiation battle between motor insurers? In this webinar, an expert panel discusses the latest trends, the options available to urban motor policyholders after an accident and how insurers can better serve their urban customers.