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A Trailblazer in the Lloyd’s Marketplace Looks Back and Ahead
It took enormous courage to walk into Lloyd's for the first time and into the underwriting room—also known as "The Room." I was a very junior broker with absolutely no experience, tasked with ...
B3i’s Blockchain-Powered Insurance Network Gets Closer to Solving Some Industry Problems
The author Douglas Adams once said, "We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." Many of us can relate, especially with new technology such as distributed ledger ...
Insurance Linked Securities in 2019: Asking the Right Questions
The record losses we saw in 2017 and 2018 were felt heavily by the insurance industry, and there is no denying that two years of losses have affected investor sentiment. While such a statement is ...
Agility Guide: A How-To for Navigating Tech Transformations
In the race to modernize, many insurers have found their progress slowed by the size, scale and scope of large transformation programs. From core systems to data warehouses, and from cloud platforms ...
Rethinking the Limits of Parametric Insurance
It's time to rethink the limits of parametric insurance. The concept behind parametric insurance is not new. Insurance payouts automatically triggered by an event exceeding an index level have ...
Lloyd’s Culture Survey Reveals ‘Ugly’ Levels of Sexual Harassment
Lloyd's announced the results of its culture survey, which was commissioned in March in the wake of press reports of rampant sexual harassment in the market. The survey confirms that many women are ...
‘It’s About the Mission,’ Retiring NAMIC CEO Chamness Says
"Be optimistic and be indefatigable." Charles Chamness, president and CEO of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, carefully pronounces each syllable of the last word as he recalls ...
New CEO Levinson on Rebuilding Lexington Insurance
Success for a specialty lines carrier is about discipline. It's about walking away from classes of business or lines of business when rates are no longer adequate. It's about having the courage to ...