Sarah and Nigel are joined by three great guests to discuss the world of agricultural insurance, including: Richard Counsell, CEO of Stable Matt Jones, Principal, Investments at Anthemis Hector Ibarra, CEO of Global Parametrics Kicking off the show we take a close look at the difficulties around insuring agricultural commodities, including what the actual indexes are and the problems that are involved. There's been a great deal of difficulty in figuring out the science to apply to agricultural i...
May 01, 2019•41 min
This week we have some great stories for you as Sarah's joined by a couple of great guests: Andy Rear - Chief Executive of MunichRe DigitalPartners Jimmy Williams - CEO at Urban Jungle Kicking off the show, the panel talks about Insurtech Slice Lab unveiling a new AI-based tool to predict insurance risk. The on-demand insurance platform which already offers homeshare, cyber and rideshare insurance, along with a white label platform which insurers can use to create their own digital products, has...
Apr 17, 2019•51 min
Sarah is live at the Insurtech Insights Conference London to talk about financial wellness and how insurtech is working with mental health. Kicking off the show we have a great panel on how to bring objective data into subjective issues like mental health. Sarah's with a great panel to discuss how to negotiate this sensitive area, including: Vica Manos, Managing Director at Anthemis George Eleftheriou, Co-founder and CEO at Myfeel Nick Taylor, CEO at Unmind Mee-Jung Jang, Managing Director of th...
Apr 03, 2019•55 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by the team at Anthemis to talk about the speed of insurtechs, how incumbents are keeping pace and the insurance value chain. They're joined by: Ruth Foxe-Blader, MD Investments, Anthemis Matthew Jones, Principal, Investments, Anthemis Sophie Winwood, Associate, Investments, Anthemis Kicking off the show, the panel talks about Anthemis and how they find the insurtechs they invest in, their focus on horizontal technologies and Seed and Series A funding. They also talk a...
Mar 20, 2019•39 min
Sarah and David are joined by Shaun Meadows, Partner at SI Partners Global. Kicking off the show our hosts ask Shaun about what SI Partners is doing and his role as a partner there. But swiftly move on to his background at Aviva, where he went through a variety of roles over 22 years - giving him an interesting perspective on where and how the industry has changed over time. They also discuss Shaun's time working in Hong Kong and Singapore and how attitudes towards insurance differ from the UK. ...
Mar 06, 2019•39 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by: Lea Nonninger - Research Analyst at Business Insider Intelligence James York - Founder at Worry+Peace Arslan Hannani - Head of Market Management at Zurich First up, Urban Jungle have released a contents insurance product for renters described as the 'Netflix for insurance' by ERGO. We spoke to Urban Jungle CEO, Jimmy Williams, to get his view on it before talking to our guests to see what the panel thinks. (01:23) Inshur, a digital provider of commercial vehicle in...
Feb 20, 2019•50 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by Oke Elazu, COO of Bought by Many to talk about the surprisingly wide-spread issue of fraud in pet insurance. We kick things off with a roundtable discussion on the challenges facing the pet insurance industry, the difficulties of verifying the vital information of pets and bad actors in the pet world. 45% of the population of the UK own a pet, and statistical studies estimate there to be about 51 million pets in the UK, and 6.6m people have taken out pet insurance. ...
Feb 06, 2019•39 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by Helene Stanway, Digital Leader at AXA XL to talk about the latest insurtech news First up, we talk to Helene about her background and what's going on at AXA XL now that the merger's gone through 01:22 Trov Expands To Four More States In The US 29:39 Digital Insurer Singapore Life Raises $33 million for expansion 34:15 Zurich North America chooses its representatives for the Zurich Innovation World Championship 41:46 All that and much more on this week's episode of I...
Jan 23, 2019•49 min
Sarah is back hosting with David and Nigel this week, joined by guest Oliver Ralph, Insurance Correspondent at the FT for some wine, crackers, mince pies and maybe some insurance too. We kick things off with Slice Insurance Cloud Services Now Available in the UK & EU. US insurtech Slice offers on-demand rideshare and homeshare insurance, along with an on-demand insurance cloud platform called Insurance Cloud Services (ICS). ICS has been available in the US and Canada since January 2018 where...
Dec 26, 2018•54 min
David is back hosting with Nigel this week, joined by guests Edel Ryan and James Burrows both of whom are Partners at JLT. We kick things off with a discussion on contingency insurance and how it relates to the sports, media and entertainment worlds. The entertainment industry faces growing risks and exposures. Extreme weather, power failure, public liability and terrorism reflect some of the on-going challenges and uncertainty threatening the success of events. We take a look at death and disgr...
Dec 11, 2018•43 min
Sarah is back hosting with Nigel this week, joined by guests Arslan Hannani, Head of Market Management at Zurich and Tim Attia, CEO and Co-founder of Slice. We kick things off with a roundtable discussion on the types of partnerships in the industry, the benefits they bring and what role (if any) regulators should play. They examine just how common incumbent/startup partnerships are, if they can ever be judged as successful and what those metrics are. The group also take a look at how investment...
Nov 28, 2018•51 min
Sarah is back hosting with Nigel this week, joined by guest Tobias Taupitz, CEO and Founder of Laka. We kick things off with a discussion on what the sports insurance market, looking at what it covers. Next up we take a look at the latest insurtech news, starting with the evolution of winter sports cover. According to official UK Government statistics, between 2012 and 2016, there were 118 hospitalisations of British skiers and snowboarders in European resorts, and 58 deaths – and when it comes ...
Nov 14, 2018•39 min
David is hosting with Nigel this week with a great guest, Renaud Million CEO of SPIXII to talk all about the latest news in insurtech. Including: First up, AXA XL moving European arm out of UK ahead of Brexit. AXA XL has received authorisation to move its EU business from the UK to Ireland in advance of the UK’s exit on 29 March 2019. The insurer says it will minimise disruption in its dealings with brokers and clients. It is the latest insurer to announce it’s post-Brexit plans - following the ...
Oct 31, 2018•30 min
Sarah is back hosting this week, joined by guests: James Garthwaite, Underwriter in Art and Private Clients at Hiscox UK and Ireland, and Luke Mullett, Account Executive for Commercial and Private Fine Art at CBC UK. We kick things off with a roundtable discussion on what the market is, looking at what it covers and how expansive the range of objects is. Why art insurance is so different from the rest of the insurance world, what art's insured against, the biggest risks to art and how transporta...
Oct 03, 2018•33 min
Sarah is back hosting with David this week with two great guests, Lea Nonninger, Research Analyst at Business Insider Intelligence and James York, Founder at Worry + Peace to talk all about the latest news in insurtech. Including: Hong Kong based OneDegree gets $25.5 million Series A to make insurance more accessible, starting with pet insurance. OneDegree offers an online insurance platform that lets consumers purchase personal lines and health insurance products via an app which automates clai...
Sep 19, 2018•42 min
Sarah Kocianski is back hosting with Nigel Walsh this week, they're joined by guests: Emil Pfeiffer, CEO and Founder of Krizo and FT Insurance Correspondent, Oliver Ralph. We kick things off with a discussion on what catastrophe insurance actually is, turns out it's not just an 'act of god'. Once the panel have established the definition, they move on to examining what technology is actually changing the catastrophe insurance space and what the current problems facing the industry are. The panel...
Sep 03, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Sarah Kocianski is hosting seat this week, joined by guests: Ahmed Zaidi, CTO at Catalyst AI, Erik Abrahamsson, Founder and CEO of Digital Fineprint, and Janthana Kaenprakhamroy, Founder and CEO of Tapoly. We kick things off with a quick intro into what AI really means and what it can do before having a roundtable discussion on the effect it can have on the insurance industry. We continue with a discussion on the areas where AI can have the biggest impact and what AI products in the market are a...
Aug 22, 2018•48 min
Sarah Kocianski is back in the hosting seat this week, joined by guests Luca Scnettler, CEO of HealthyHealth and Ari Zadkov, Head of Technical Marketing, Vitality Health. We kick things off with a roundtable discussion on the challenges facing the health insurance industry at the moment. How technology is changing the health insurance industry, how it works for pre-existing conditions, how to companies choose what they will and won’t pay out for, and how that affects consumers. We also discuss t...
Aug 08, 2018•45 min
Sarah Kocianski is back in the hosting seat this week, joined by guests: Jonathan Roomer, CFO and Co-Founder of Yulife and Oliver Ralph, Insurance Correspondant at the FT. We kick things off with a roundtable discussion on life insurance, before the deep dive the panel sets out the many different types of life insurance and which ones are most common and relevant to customers. Then they take a look at when and why people take out life insurance in the first place, what solutions are they looking...
Jul 25, 2018•45 min
Sarah Kocianski is back in the hosting seat this week, joined by Nigel Walsh and guests Alex Wheal, Commercial Client Manager at Hiscox and Ania Kubow, Co-founder of Nimbla. We kick things off by discussing what types of insurance are most meaningful to SMBs, discussing the issue of how SMBs can discover which type of insurance they actually need and how much cover they'll require. We also discuss how currently there appear to be almost no tailor-made insurance policies for SMBs. Then we go on t...
Jul 11, 2018•39 min
James York, CEO and Founder, Worry+Peace, Liam Gray, Head of Research & Partner Management at Startupbootcamp InsurTech, Tshidi Hagan, Program Director at Startupbootcamp, Tobias Taupitz, CEO and Co-founder at Laka, all join Sarah to discuss: Startup Bootcamp, the benefits of accelerators hubs and innovation labs, how to measure their success, and much more. Sarah also has a great interview with James Birch at Insurtech Gateway As always you can find the show on Twitter @instechinsiders and ...
Jun 27, 2018•48 min
George Herber, Business Development Manager at Friss, David Hartley, Director of Fraud and Financial Crime Practice at SAS Global and Greg Brown, Partner at Oxbow Partners, join Nigel and Sarah to dig into: How insurance is preventing fraud right now, who's actually making fraudulent claims, the threat of organised fraudsters, staying wary of cracking down too hard and much more. Nigel and Sarah also take a look into the top insurtech news stories. As always you can find the show on Twitter @ins...
Jun 13, 2018•41 min
Bought By Many COO Oke Eleazu joins Sarah and David to share his expertise in a show dedicated to pet insurance. David has just bought (and insured) a puppy so we had a lot of vested interest in this one! 1 in 10 of the entire UK population have taken out pet insurance and there are 51 million pets in the UK alone, Oke tells us all about the pet insurance industry, which is a growing sector in insurance. We also cover the top insurtech news stories of the moment, including the Beast from the Eas...
May 30, 2018•44 min
The panel discuss their insights into insurtech, covering a bevy of issues. They look at where insurance technology is right now: discussing the impact of blockchain, the possibilities of AI, and the reality of smart contracts. We also bring you a great interview with Jason Futers, CEO of Insurdata As always you can find the show on Twitter @instechinsiders and if you like what you've heard this week, don’t forget subscribe to our podcast and please leave us a review us on iTunes. If you have an...
May 16, 2018•46 min
The panel discuss their insights into insurtech, covering a bevy of issues. They look at where travel insurance is right now: discussing how low the usage of travel insurance actually is, captured markets affecting the space, pay as you go insurance, the difference a cruise makes and much more. We also bring you an amazing interview with Parul Green, Head of UK Strategy, M&A and Innovation at AXA. As always you can find the show on Twitter @instechinsiders and if you like what you've heard t...
May 02, 2018•48 min
The panel discuss their insights into insurtech, covering a bevy of issues. They look at where vehicle insurance is right now: what driving disruption actually is, if price comparison websites are on their way out, what’s going on in the latest regtech sandbox, and how insurtech disruption is changing traditional insurance models. The panel also discusses how mandatory insurance and price comparison websites force a race to the bottom and how companies can combat that by providing personalised p...
Apr 18, 2018•43 min
We kick off the show with everyone’s favourite, a trip to dictionary corner to define the London Market and its key players. The panel celebrate London in all its glory, delving into the city’s importance with a 25% global market share of the Cyber sector. The importance of market share loss gets a thorough examination with newer markets providing a significant challenge to businesses. It’s all about being an easy place to do business with. Innovation and disruption get some recognition in a slo...
Apr 04, 2018•39 min
The roundtable begins by discussing what cyber insurance actually is! Who needs it most? What are the benefits? Cyber security doesn't always work and we've seen some high profile hacks in recent times- the biggest of all being Equifax. We ask our panel what the consequences of being on the end of a breach so large? How do massive companies deal with it? How important is PR in these situations? We also asked what actually happens when you're hacked but you're cyber insured- a topic for which our...
Mar 21, 2018•55 min
So what are Connected Homes? The panel begin by actually explaining the concept. How do these smart devices feed information to home owners and to third parties, such as retailers and insurers? More importantly- how comfortable are consumers- in an era where data is starting to become more sovereign, in allowing insurers access to this data? Next we discuss the benefits and negatives for the consumer. What demographic loses out? Moving on, the panel talk about consumer awareness. 77% of people h...
Mar 07, 2018•58 min
In this very special Blockchain Insider takeover of our show, Simon Taylor hosts a roundtable all about insurance on a blockchain - why do we need it, what problems does it solve, what is it making better and for whom? He was joined by some fantastic guests from across the industry: Greg Crow - Global Head of Architecture at XL Catlin Walid Al Saqqaf - Innovation Manager at Beazley Kadhim Shubber - Journalist at FT Alphaville Sebastian De Zulueta - Managing Director at Market Minds Ltd Later on ...
Feb 21, 2018•1 hr 2 min
