Blogs

  • Why it's time to up the ante - #IPTsUnfair

    08/11/2017

    One of the more striking findings in the Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) report the Social Market Foundation published last week, was the finding that half the country had never even heard of it. I…

  • Confessions of a Chief Economist: Volume II

    03/11/2017

    Last year, I wrote a blog that probably hindered my chances of ever working at the Bank of England by openly mocking their Chief Economist for “not being able to make the remotest sense of…

  • Work, Mental Health and Insurance

    31/10/2017

    The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) Absence Management Survey (2016) tells us that the work days lost per employee each year was 6.3, the lowest since their surveys began[i]. The…

  • InsurTech Spotlight with Edmund Dilger

    26/10/2017

    Welcome to the ABI InsurTech Spotlight, Week 10. Each week I’ll be putting questions to one of the movers and shakers of the UK InsurTech arena – the leaders of exciting InsurTech businesses…

  • How ethical hacking tips the connected car’s balance of risk

    25/10/2017

    Ethical hacking can help keep connected vehicles safe from exploitation by malicious hackers. Martin Hunt, Senior Business Development Director, Automotive Global Industry at BT, explains the…

  • Experimenting with a new consumer approach

    24/10/2017

    This week the ABI is launching a project which doesn’t look like it has anything much to do with us. That’s deliberate; there’s no ABI branding and not even a hint of a logo. Instead of carefully…

  • The Future of Mobility?

    20/10/2017

    Fast & Furious 8 has been showing in cinemas - including scenes of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV’s) being hacked and sent round New York destroying people and property – that will do…

  • InsurTech Spotlight with Renaud Million

    19/10/2017

    Welcome to the ABI InsurTech Spotlight, Week 9. Each week I’ll be putting questions to one of the movers and shakers of the UK InsurTech arena – the leaders of exciting InsurTech businesses…

  • GDPR: Catalyst or deterrent for innovation in Insurance?

    12/10/2017

    Despite perceptions as traditional and risk-averse, the Insurance sector is no stranger to digital transformation. Although digitisation in insurance has seen a slow start, within the last 2 years…

  • InsurTech Spotlight with Matt Cullen

    12/10/2017

    Welcome to the ABI InsurTech Spotlight, Week 8. I’m Matt Cullen, and each week I’ll be putting questions to one of the movers and shakers of the UK InsurTech arena – the leaders of exciting InsurTech…