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• Broker optimism creeps up

  14-01-2019 09:53
  Growing positivity runs counter to wider financial services market sentiment.
  
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• ANV buys Blink Intermediary Solutions owner

  19-03-2026 15:57
  Recently formed ANV Group, owner of Arc Legal, Collegiate, Qualis and Abacus, has signed up to buy Blink Intermediary Solutions owner Iris Insurance Brokers.
  
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• Lloyd’s insurer targets SMEs with new cyber launch

  19-03-2026 14:57 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Lloyd’s insurer Brit has launched C360, a new cyber product for SMEs which aims to give broker clients access to simple but broad cover.
  
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• Lloyd’s insurers enjoy bumper profits for third year running

  19-03-2026 14:49
  Chief executive says market welcomes ‘all risks that can be legally insured’
  
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• Lloyd’s reveals ‘strong’ underwriting performance and ‘disciplined’ growth in 2025

  19-03-2026 11:28
  Lloyd’s has revealed a 4.2% hike in gross written premium to £57.9bn in 2025, and a new five-year strategy, as pre-tax profit broke through the £10bn barrier.
  
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• Lloyd’s reveals “strong” underwriting performance and “disciplined” growth in 2025

  19-03-2026 11:28 via insuranceage.co.uk
  
  Lloyd’s has revealed a 4.2% hike in gross written premium to £57.9bn in 2025, and a new five-year strategy, as pre-tax profit broke through the £10bn barrier.
  
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• Granite launches 25+ vehicle taxi fleet product

  19-03-2026 11:28 via insuranceage.co.uk
  
  Granite Underwriting has launched a 25+ vehicle taxi fleet product, covering private hire and public hire vehicles.
  
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• Staffordshire-based broker makes first deal under Momentum Equity Partners

  19-03-2026 10:41
  
  Bartlett James Risk Solutions has purchased fellow Momentum appointed representative IPC, marking the first Momentum Equity Partners deal.
  
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• US explored tying naval escorts in Strait of Hormuz to government insurance

  19-03-2026 06:00
  Vessels seeking protection may be required to take out cover from programme run by Development Finance Corporation
  
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• US could force ships seeking Hormuz escorts to buy government insurance

  19-03-2026 06:00
  Vessels seeking protection may be required to take out cover from programme run by Development Finance Corporation
  
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• Trump sails into battle with Lloyd’s of London

  19-03-2026 06:00
  The market’s historic strength in marine war insurance is being challenged by the US
  
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• FCA to join Biba on autumn regional tour again

  18-03-2026 17:12
  The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has confirmed the Financial Conduct Authority will again join its Tour of the Regions in the autumn.
  
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• CFC launches quality defect endorsement for product recall worldwide

  18-03-2026 12:16 via insuranceage.co.uk
  CFC has launched a quality defect endorsement claiming it offers the ‘broadest version’ available worldwide.
  
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• Sodalis buys MGA Amiga Specialty

  18-03-2026 11:56 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Sodalis Capital, the recently created investment venture focused on international insurance intermediaries, has snapped up managing general agent Amiga Specialty in a £1.8m deal that sees private equity house BP Marsh exit but keep a stake in the new owner.
  
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• EY creates two UK insurance sub sectors and names new leaders

  18-03-2026 11:34
  EY has created two sub sectors, commercial and specialty; and life, pensions and personal lines, in response to the “rapidly changing shape of the UK insurance industry”.
  
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• Blog: The evolving role of AI in the insurance claims process

  17-03-2026 17:29
  With it almost certain that AI is being used somewhere in the claims process, Simon Murray, head of insurance digital and business services at law firm DWF, tackles the upsides and the downsides, looks at what might come next and the key questions for brokers.
  
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• MGA promotes four to new head office roles

  17-03-2026 15:26 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Managing general agent NBS Underwriting has promoted four people to newly created head office roles, in a move designed to strengthen the leadership team and support ongoing growth.
  
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• Rural and commercial broker launches in Devon

  17-03-2026 13:28
  Alan Tate-Smith has launched AMB Rural and Commercial, specialising in agricultural insurance risks, as an appointed representative of FUW Insurance Services.
  
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• Markel raids another senior hire from Axa and one from Intact

  17-03-2026 11:57
  Markel Insurance has hired from Axa again appointing Joanne Foreman as head of broker change, and taking Laura Fox from Intact.
  
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• Seventeen opens 2026 M&A account with double deal

  17-03-2026 11:13
  Seventeen has struck a brace of deals snapping up Citrus Healthcare and Smith England Insurance Brokers adding £12m in gross written premium to the group.
  
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• M&A expert ‘sceptical’ over Intact’s UK broker investment push

  17-03-2026 10:39 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The move by the wider Intact Group to acquire a stake in a UK broker is unlikely to lead to a tide of others doing something similar.
  
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• Lenders struggle to find insurance cover for mega data centre projects

  17-03-2026 06:00
  Lack of sufficient cover means some investors are walking away from deals
  
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• Bexhill report shines spotlight on broker ownership

  16-03-2026 17:25
  Premium finance lender Bexhill UK has crunched the numbers on the broking sector with CEO Ravi Takhar warning that truly independent owner-managed regional brokers are slowly becoming ‘a thing of the past’, Insurance Age can reveal.
  
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• SiriusPoint restructures and Gibbs exits

  16-03-2026 13:10
  SiriusPoint has confirmed international CEO Rob Gibbs is leaving the business as it restructures into four areas.
  
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• Broker bosses outline importance of shifting the focus from price to value

  16-03-2026 12:34
  Brokers could be missing valuable income and leaving clients exposed if they don’t shift the conversation from price to value.
  
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• FOS and FCA reveal next steps for system reform

  16-03-2026 12:24
  The Financial Ombudsman Service and Financial Conduct Authority have outlined the next steps on their joint work to modernise the redress system.
  
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• Japanese insurer Mitsui Sumitomo completes 15% investment in W.R. Berkley

  16-03-2026 11:39
  Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance has completed its acquisition of 15% of W. R. Berkley Corporation’s common stock.
  
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• Stockpickers: Legal & General, Balfour Beatty, Domino’s Pizza

  13-03-2026 19:00
  Our experts discuss which companies to buy, sell or hold this week
  
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• Brokers asking MGAs for more digital products

  13-03-2026 17:12
  Brokers are asking for more digital products and greater transparency in capacity tenures from managing general agents, according to MGAA boss Mike Keating as he highlights an uptick in incubator start-ups.
  
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• Oaktree plans to buy South Carolina insurer after 777 Partners collapse

  13-03-2026 15:57
  Advantage Capital had lent to Josh Wander’s failed Miami-based fund
  
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