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Bringing together the best technology and innovation for insurance and risk management together from around the world. Podcast hosted by Matthew Grant.
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Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Concirrus is one of the most well-known companies in London to have emerged in recent years, providing analytics for commercial underwriting to a growing list of insurers.
CEO and Co-founder Andrew Yeoman joined Matthew on Episode 71 to talk about his motivation for starting the company, how Concirrus has grown and the future opportunities for helping insurers and companies with risk selection and risk prevention.
Topics include:
- How to be relevant when talking to potential clients
- Finding relevance and insight in third-party data
- New technology and the challenges and opportunities facing the industry
- Developments in marine underwriting and commercial fleet insurance
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You can hear more from Concirrus at our Lessons from Insurance Innovations in Motor, Mobility and Beyond evening event on 30 March, with Chris Gill among the speakers. More about what we are up to at: www.instech.london
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Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
After honing his skills and gaining experience in other industries, David King settled on insurance and, with co-founder Johnny Bridges set up Artificial Labs in 2013.
Today Artificial is helping deliver major efficiencies for insurance companies in how they collect and analyse third-party data.
David joined Matthew on Episode 70 of the InsTech London podcast and topics include:
- Why the insurance industry is a great place to launch a business
- The benefits of different accelerators and incubators
- Lessons learned from Ping An and the Chinese market
- Identifying the right technology mix for different clients
- When to bring in a CEO
- The importance of networking and relationship building
You can read more key highlights from Matthew and David’s conversation on the InsTech London website.
David also appeared on Episode 22 of the podcast, appearing on stage at our event in April last year to discuss the launch of Tarian’s new cyber MGA.
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Proving that it's never too late to start a new business, John Cavanagh retired as CEO from Willis Re in 2017 to set up Beat Capital with Tom Milligan (previously Co-CEO of Ariel Re). Today Beat Capital is supporting multiple underwriting businesses, set up by experienced and entrepreneurial underwriters.
John has been working for over 45 years in insurance, including 21 years at international specialty reinsurance broker RK Carvill where he was joint CEO. In addition to running Beat Capital, John is Chairman of Slipcase, founded by Alex Hearn.
It was a real pleasure to speak to such an experienced and well known figure from the global insurance market. Matthew has known John for many years and he is a long time supporter of the use of technology, data and analytics to enhance underwriting and risk management.
This wide-ranging discussion includes:
- Launching a start-up
- The importance of Lloyd's in the global insurance market
- The balance between using analytics and underwriting intuition
- The role of the new "Syndicate in a box" at Lloyd's (and what that actually means)
- Why John got involved with Slipcase and why what they do is so relevant for insurance
- Getting the right work-life balance
You can find, read and share the summary of this discussion, along with all our other podcasts at https://www.instech.london/podcasts
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
As data becomes more widely available, underwriters may have more information to select and price the business they are taking on, but they don't have more time. This week Matthew Grant talks to Richard Hartley about how Cytora has grown since 2014, the challenges of being a founder and how the company helps insurers identify and focus on the accounts that are going to be more profitable. Topics include:
- Finding investors as a start-up and scale-up
- The challenges of building a team as the company evolves
- Cytora's clients
- Distributing through other platforms
- The role of accelerators and incubators
For a written summary of this discussion - and more information about Instech London go to https://www.instech.london/podcasts
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Live highlights from the InsTech London "Future of Payments" evening at The Steelyard on 21st January 2020 hosted by Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant
Mastercard's Ian Slater & Ruth Polyblank discuss:
- Why Mastercard is so enthusiastic about the opportunities of working with partners in insurance
- Lessons from the banks and fintech - and relevance for insurtech
- Why data will change perceptions of insurance
- How insurers can collaborate with Mastercard
Followed by Laura Harvey, Strategic Director at Davies Group on the benefits of virtual credit numbers (VCN) to speed up payments to policyholders.
A written summary of Ian, Ruth and Laura’s conversations is available on the podcast section of our website - https://www.instech.london/podcasts
You can also download the full agenda and photos from our Past Events section - https://www.instech.london/past-events/future-of-payments-in-insurance
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Data is at the heart of many decisions in insurance - pricing, risk mitigation, claims and capital management. But data needs to be high quality - and that requires constant diligence.
CEO and founder of Atticus DQPro Nick Mair is Matthew’s guest on Episode 66. Nick talks about how he has successfully built a business, with no external funding, and which in only a few years has signed up a number of major insurance companies to help them manage and measure data quality.
Their conversation covered:
- Awareness and adoption of data monitoring tools
- Building a business without external investment
- Make B2B sales to commercial insurers
- Learning how to define and build products
- Tips for aspiring founders
- Podcasts and book recommendations
- Pros and cons of accelerators and incubators
Read (and share) the highlights from this episode on the Podcast section of the InsTech London website, along with all previous episodes.
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Ask someone to name some of the more successful UK insurtech scale-ups and Digital Fineprint (DFP) often gets a mention.
In 3 years CEO and Founder Erik Abrahamsson has taken DFP from holding meetings in a garden shed to raising £7m in funding and securing an impressive list of clients.
He joined Matthew on Episode 65 of the InsTech London podcast for a conversation that covered:
- Using new data sources for selecting and pricing SME insurance
- Tips for a new company on pitching to prospective clients
- Why in a world that is turning digital, personal contact still matters in insurance
- How DFP is able to recruit senior people from established insurers
- Lessons learned from working in the Lloyd’s Lab
If you liked what you have heard then please leave us a review or a comment on your chosen podcast platform. Look out for the shareable summary of this episode at https://www.instech.london/podcasts
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Jan 19, 2020
Sunday Jan 19, 2020
The launch of a new Insurtech fund – Brewer Lane Ventures – was announced earlier this month. Martha Notaras will be Managing Partner along with founder John Kim. Martha was formerly part of the team at XL Innovate – investing in successful startups such as Lemonade, Cape Analytics and Slice and she has many years of experience in identifying and investing in technology companies in and outside of insurance.
Martha is also well known as a lively and informed presenter and panelist at insurance and technology conferences. Matthew talks to Martha from her office in California. The topics they cover include:
- New opportunities in insurtech including climate change and cyber. Why the past is not a good guide to the future.
- Data and the challenges for insurers.
- How the reaction of incumbent insurers to the relevance of insurtech has changed over the last few years.
- The best way to keep up to date with what is happening in insurance and technology
- The goals for Brewer Lane Ventures and the type of companies it will be investing in
Look out for the summary of this discussion at https://www.instech.london/podcasts
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
This week we're talking once again to Bernard Goyder, a journalist with Insurance Insider. Bernard is currently on a posting to New York, having previously been the Insurance Insiders' technology correspondent in London. We last featured Bernard in June 2019 shortly after he arrived in the US and Matthew catches up to find what the world of insurance, technology and insurtech looks like from the US.
The areas we cover include:
- A review of the end of year reinsurance renewals (and what they are)
- What's happening in the casualty market
- Why MGAs and insurance brokers have been such attractive acquisition targets
- Commercial auto in the US and why this is an opportunity for insurtech
- Telematics, modelling wildfire, cyber and property exposure
- Disruption opportunities in the claims market
- Will Lloyd's of London move to profitability this year?
- Scale-up Insurtechs to look out for
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
We've interviewed well over 100 people in 2019 and you can hear most of them on the InsTech London podcasts. Our guests share fantastic insights - whether on stage speaking to us at our events, or for Matthew's longer in-depth interviews. The leaders from insurance companies, the founders and CEO of technology companies (small and large) that they are working with and others that are truly influencing the shape of the industry.
Over the break we've been looking to see what consistent themes have emerged during our chats to some of the leading figures from a handful of the largest and most well-known insurance companies in the world. Some of the most frequent topics that came up were:
- Why it's important to look at the customers' problems when considering innovation opportunities.
- How data is really being used, with a particular emphasis on what the future of IOT holds.
- The importance of partnerships between insurtech and other technology providers and insurers.
- The emergence of the augmented underwriter.
- How to encourage innovation throughout a large organisation.
We're starting off the year with the specific thoughts on these topics pulled from conversations with some of our most popular guests:
Sean Ringsted, Chief Digital Officer for Chubb (episode 35)
Graham Elliott, CEO & Founder of Azur Underwriting (episode 37)
Adrian Jones, Head of Ventures & Strategic Partnerships at SCOR Global P&C (episode 42)
James Slaughter, CUO for Commercial Speciality at Liberty Mutual (episode 47)
Kelly Ward, AXA Partners on stage at Instech London in November (episode 55)
Michele Williams, Head of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty's central innovation unit XSE (episode 56)
This episode will give you a useful taster of our full interview (or a chance to hear the highlights again) but the originals are definitely worth a listen. Take a look at the full list of episodes at https://www.instech.london/podcasts
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InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant
Produced by Simon Fyles: simon@instech.london
Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk