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Why producer compliance is splitting across three tech models

Why producer compliance is splitting across three tech models

Producer licensing is increasingly becoming a technology infrastructure decision for carriers and MGAs, with platforms differing significantly in how they connect to existing systems,...
Interconnected risks are breaking insurance's old models

Interconnected risks are breaking insurance’s old models

Insurance models are being tested by a risk environment in which exposures increasingly overlap, evolve quickly and create consequences beyond their original category. Earnix,...
Seltzer bets on Pennsylvania insurance growth with Trego

Seltzer bets on Pennsylvania insurance growth with Trego

Seltzer Group Partners, a Pennsylvania-based insurance provider, has acquired Trego Insurance Agency, bringing the Berks County agency's commercial and personal lines business into its...
Thoma Bravo's $4bn bet signals InsurTech consolidation

Thoma Bravo’s $4bn bet signals InsurTech consolidation

Accelerant, an InsurTech platform operating a data-driven risk exchange for the specialty insurance market, is set to be acquired by Thoma Bravo in an...
Applied Systems automates broker email quoting

Applied Systems automates broker email quoting

Applied Systems, an insurance software provider connecting agencies, brokers and carriers across the global risk value chain, has launched a new agentic email-to-quote submission...
Kita deepens Tokio Marine tie-up on carbon credit risk

Kita deepens Tokio Marine tie-up on carbon credit risk

Kita, a specialist provider of political risk insurance for carbon credit transactions and a Lloyd's Coverholder based in London, has secured a strategic investment...
Why InsurTech is reshaping commercial risk pricing

Why InsurTech is reshaping commercial risk pricing

Commercial insurers are facing a combination of geopolitical, economic and technological pressures that are challenging underwriting models built around relatively stable risk patterns and...
Global InsurTech investments projection 2026

Global InsurTech funding projected to grow 68% in 2026 driven by a surge in...

Key Global InsurTech investment stats in H1 2026: Global InsurTech investment increased 81% YoY InsurTech investment is projected to grow 68% Deals over $100m...
Indico Data, HDI Global US strike InsurTech tie-up

Indico Data, HDI Global US strike InsurTech tie-up

Indico Data, the Intake & Orchestration Platform for insurance operations, has agreed a partnership with HDI Global US to modernise how complex corporate and...
Alfred launches Costco-style bills membership

Alfred launches Costco-style bills membership

Alfred, a new AI-native services company that gives UK households access to better prices across energy, mobile, broadband, home insurance, car insurance and breakdown...

News Stories

How AI could help insurers manage rising climate costs

How AI could help insurers manage rising climate costs

Climate change is putting insurance models under growing pressure as rising claims costs, natural catastrophe losses and more expensive repairs push premiums higher. For...
Whole-case renewals can hide margin leakage in group benefits

Whole-case renewals can hide margin leakage in group benefits

Group benefits insurers may be missing pricing opportunities when renewal decisions are made at whole-case level, particularly where different products within the same customer...
AI brings new precision to Risk Theory’s wildfire underwriting

AI brings new precision to Risk Theory’s wildfire underwriting

California’s challenging homeowners insurance market is pushing specialty providers to find more precise ways of assessing wildfire exposure. Risk Theory is using property-level AI...
CLARA unveils end-to-end agentic claims platform

CLARA unveils end-to-end agentic claims platform

CLARA Analytics, an AI-driven claims optimisation specialist, has introduced Agentic Intelligence, which it describes as the first end-to-end AI workforce designed for complex casualty...
Shelter Insurance taps One Inc to digitise payments

Shelter Insurance taps One Inc to digitise payments

One Inc, a payments network built specifically for the insurance sector, has been picked by Shelter Insurance Companies to overhaul how the carrier's customers...
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