Aon agrees $17bn deal to acquire USI from KKR

September 1, 2026

US insurance brokerage USI Insurance Services, which provides risk management, employee benefits and retirement consulting, has agreed to be acquired by Aon plc from...

What were the big InsurTech trends in H1 2026?

August 7, 2026

The insurance market is starting to soften, which could see a shift in the type of innovation projects firms focus on. As the first...

Why producer onboarding and compliance are critical for insurers

July 20, 2026

The insurance sector has been battling a prolonged hard market for several years, but the market is shifting and growth is back on the...

How Majesco made the transition to becoming an AI-first company

July 10, 2026

While hype around AI has intensified recently, it has been around for decades, albeit confined to more niche and specific technology branches that lacked...

Insurance has always depended on timing. Risk is captured at a specific moment, translated into a price, and expected to remain broadly stable until the next review. For much of the industry’s history, that assumption has held. Risk moved, but not so quickly that it escaped the frame of underwriting.

How real-time risk visibility is reshaping the insurance lifecycle

May 8, 2026

Insurance has always depended on timing. Risk is captured at a specific moment, translated into a price, and expected to remain broadly stable until...

Booking a flight online takes minutes. Ordering a taxi takes seconds. Even applying for a loan can now be done in a handful of taps. Buying insurance, by contrast, often feels like stepping back a decade. The process slows, the questions multiply, and what should be simple quickly becomes something to work through rather than complete.

Why most insurance quotes are abandoned — and how insurers can fix it

May 5, 2026

Booking a flight online takes minutes. Ordering a taxi takes seconds. Even applying for a loan can now be done in a handful of...

In Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction, when a situation deteriorates beyond control, everyone knows you call The Wolf. Arriving without the slightest hint of panic, he surveys the damage with practised calm and begins issuing instructions. Within minutes, chaos has been reduced to a sequence of manageable decisions. Insurance has long relied on people capable of performing a similar role. Actuaries are the professionals insurers turn to when risk becomes too complex for instinct alone.

The evolving role of actuaries in the age of AI

April 1, 2026

In Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction, when a situation deteriorates beyond control, everyone knows you call The Wolf. Arriving without the slightest...

Artificial intelligence may dominate the current conversation around insurance technology, but the story of InsurTech itself has followed a different trajectory. A decade ago, the sector was defined by the promise of disruption. Venture capital flowed into startups promising to rebuild insurance from the ground up. This swell of momentum saw surged to record levels, peaking at more than $15bn globally in 2021, according to CB Insights.

The next phase of InsurTech: From disruption to durability

March 24, 2026

Artificial intelligence may dominate the current conversation around insurance technology, but the story of InsurTech itself has followed a different trajectory. A decade ago,...

The headlines arrive faster than anyone can process them. Missile strikes. Warnings of retaliation. Oil markets jolt as tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz. Governments scramble to evacuate citizens. Across television studios and diplomatic corridors, the same uneasy question returns: when will this conflict stop?

What the US-Iran conflict reveals about global insurance risk

March 23, 2026

The headlines arrive faster than anyone can process them. Missile strikes. Warnings of retaliation. Oil markets jolt as tensions rise around the Strait of...

In the first half of 2025, natural disasters caused around $131bn in potential insurance losses globally. Only about $80bn of that was insured. What remains is an uninsured black hole larger than the GDP of Bahrain.

How extreme weather is widening insurance protection gaps

March 18, 2026

In the first half of 2025, natural disasters caused around $131bn in potential insurance losses globally. Only about $80bn of that was insured. What...