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Operational resilience in insurance: The UK’s changing regulatory landscape
With a regulatory shakeup on the agenda for insurance firms, this content focuses on the regulatory objectives of the FCA and the PRA, before highlighting the steps insurers can take to effectively structure a resilience programme to align with the regulatory requirements.
Business interruption insurance test case: Draft guidance for firms
This guidance sets out our expectations for insurers and insurance intermediaries when handling claims and complaints for business interruption policies during the test case brought by the FCA.
In-depth: Are wholesalers giving retail brokers a fair deal?
Nearly one year on from the publication of the FCA’s final report for its Wholesale Insurance Broker Market Study, this in-depth feature looks at whether the market has addressed the regulator’s concerns and whether wholesalers are giving retail brokers a fair deal.
Technology can help insurers respond to FCA on charges of poor customer service
Back in April, the CEOs of UK insurers, brokers, and other providers, received a letter from the Financial Conduct Authority telling them to address poor customer service. This blog highlights how technologies can help insurers to manage and enhance customer relationships.
The complex world of scheme compliance
Schemes have the potential to be a fantastic opportunity for brokers, however this outsourced world of insurers and brokers working together has strict regulation and compliance requirements. This article focuses on how brokers and insurers can navigate the complex world of scheme compliance.
General insurance pricing practices: Interim report
The FCA’s interim report sets out concerns about how pricing in the home and motor insurance markets leads to consumers who do not switch or negotiate with their provider paying high prices for their insurance. This report also sets out some potential remedies to tackle concerns about pricing.
Innovation in pricing: The need to adapt
As insurers innovate, those at the core of insurers’ pricing and underwriting strategies face a growing need to adapt. Post held a roundtable, in association with SAS, to examine what is driving innovation in pricing and what challenges those changes present.
Spotlight: The future of pricing - The evolution of pricing
Insurers are coming under increasing pressure to develop new ways of pricing. But, while data and technology hold the key, insurers face some significant challenges. This spotlight looks at the factors insurers need to address in order to achieve pricing improvements.
Spotlight: The future of pricing - Tightening the noose
The dual pricing noose is slowly tightening around the insurance industry’s neck. Its laudable attempts to escape from the regulatory hangman seem increasingly futile as the pressure is mounting on the Financial Conduct Authority to take action. This article focuses on the implications for insurers.
A BIBA brokers' guide to claims inflation trends
The world of insurance claims is constantly evolving, against a backdrop of changing legislation, emerging technologies and social trends. Designed for brokers, this BIBA guide takes an in-depth look at the issue of claims inflation, including the latest claims trends and regulatory developments.