Akur8 joins Verisk’s strategic alliance partner network

June 16, 2026

Akur8, a global actuarial AI platform serving more than 350 insurers across 40+ countries, has joined the Verisk Strategic Alliance (VSA) partner network and...

Guidewire report reveals UK pet insurance divide

June 11, 2026

Guidewire, a leading insurance software provider, has released findings from its 2026 Insurance Customer Attitudes report, shedding light on how UK pet insurance customers...

Adaptive Insurance taps ZestyAI for storm risk underwriting

June 9, 2026

Adaptive Insurance, a specialist provider of climate-focused insurance products, has selected ZestyAI, an AI-powered risk and decision intelligence platform, to integrate property-level storm risk...

Honeycomb Insurance raises $40m in new funding round

June 8, 2026

Honeycomb Insurance, a Chicago-based digital insurer specialising in apartment buildings and condo associations, has closed a $40m funding round, bringing its total capital raised...

Building a strong pricing model remains a core responsibility for actuarial teams, but creating an accurate model is only the beginning. Before pricing changes can generate measurable business value, they must navigate data pipelines, product requirements, governance reviews, IT systems and deployment workflows. Increasingly, that journey involves far more than actuaries alone.

Why insurers risk delays when pricing teams work in silos

June 5, 2026

Building a strong pricing model remains a core responsibility for actuarial teams, but creating an accurate model is only the beginning. Before pricing changes...

Digital insurer Honeycomb Insurance has raised an additional $40m in funding as it looks to expand its geographical footprint, enhance its underwriting technology and broaden its product offering.

AI InsurTech Honeycomb secures $40m to fuel expansion

June 5, 2026

Digital insurer Honeycomb Insurance has raised an additional $40m in funding as it looks to expand its geographical footprint, enhance its underwriting technology and...

Claims technology provider Decerto has expanded the capabilities of its Claims AI platform as US property and casualty insurers increasingly shift from AI experimentation towards large-scale operational deployment.

Decerto bolsters AI claims automation for insurers

June 4, 2026

Claims technology provider Decerto has expanded the capabilities of its Claims AI platform as US property and casualty insurers increasingly shift from AI experimentation...

Insurance pricing modernisation is often spoken about as though it were a grand technological leap, a sweeping reinvention of how insurers think, decide and operate. In reality, as outlined in Akur8’s approach to pricing transformation, it tends to look far less dramatic and far more incremental.

The force quietly reshaping insurance pricing models

June 3, 2026

Insurance pricing modernisation is often spoken about as though it were a grand technological leap, a sweeping reinvention of how insurers think, decide and...

The debate between Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) and Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs) has been a long-running fixture in actuarial pricing discussions. While it is often framed as a competition between “old” and “new” modelling approaches, practitioners increasingly recognise that the real issue is not superiority, but suitability.

Comparing the benefits of GLM and GBM for insurance pricing

June 1, 2026

The debate between Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) and Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs) has been a long-running fixture in actuarial pricing discussions. While it is...

Newrez, a US homeownership company, has expanded its partnership with digital insurance marketplace Matic to embed real-time homeowners insurance comparison and quoting directly into its HomeHub customer portal.

Matic and Newrez launch real-time insurance marketplace in HomeHub

June 1, 2026

Newrez, a US homeownership company, has expanded its partnership with digital insurance marketplace Matic to embed real-time homeowners insurance comparison and quoting directly into...