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• Coface exploits data to foresee corporate failures

  27-11-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  French trade credit insurer has reinvented itself as a provider of business intelligence for the era of the polycrisis
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Axa Retail’s Matt Field

  19-12-2025 15:38 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Matt Field, intermediary director at Axa Retail, hails the insurer’s domestic violence proposition; keeps a keen eye on its NPS; and predicts new entrants to shake up the retail personal lines market, with a particular focus on data and technology.
  
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• MBP invests in cyber broker taking deal count to four in recent months

  19-12-2025 14:06
  Peter Cullum-backed Minority Broker Partnerships has invested in London-based specialist cyber and technology insurance broker and digital platform, Cyber Cover.
  
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• British Model Flying Association flies high with Aon’s Sports Insure

  19-12-2025 11:42
  Aon’s specialist offering Sports Insure has been appointed by the British Model Flying Association to provide its approximately 800 affiliated clubs and youth groups with risk management and insurance solutions.
  
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• North West broker hits £20m GWP

  19-12-2025 11:39
  Broadway Insurance Partners has posted £20m gross written premiums in 2025, up 66% from last year, as it revealed plans to grow staff numbers and expand the firm’s infrastructure outside the North West.
  
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• Interview: Tigi Singhateh and Adrian Best, Invicta Insurance Services

  19-12-2025 11:16
  Since coming on board in 2022, Invicta Insurance Services’ leaders have doubled the size of the business, despite having to deal with a fraudster. With the now ex-employee jailed and the case firmly behind them, they are targeting doubling again.
  
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• FCA’s home and travel super-complaint response triggers praise and warnings from experts

  19-12-2025 10:45
  Industry specialists have praised the clarity and transparency of the Financial Conduct Authority’s response to the Which? super-complaint about the ‘broken’ home and travel insurance markets but warned the actions may not “get to grips” with “growing problems”.
  
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• People Moves: 15 – 19 December 2025

  19-12-2025 10:42
  Follow the latest personnel moves in insurance.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: UKGI’s Jill Hambley

  19-12-2025 10:36
  Jill Hambley, MD of the consultancy division at UKGI reflects on the shake-up at the FCA, the potential non-financial misconduct debacle at Lloyd’s, and shows an aptitude for using Gen Z terms.
  
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• Gallagher boss Rea to replace Aon’s Kielty as Biba deputy chair

  18-12-2025 16:02
  The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has announced that Michael Rea, Gallagher’s UK CEO, will be the association’s next deputy chair.
  
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• Alps launches hire vehicle add-on to tackle ‘one of the biggest pain points’ for fleets and brokers

  18-12-2025 16:00
  Alps has launched a fleet guaranteed hire vehicle insurance policy.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Bspoke’s Craig Morgan

  18-12-2025 15:59 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Craig Morgan, managing director of Bspoke Sports & Leisure, echoes the concerns of others over the speed the market has softened; hails the work of Ajay Mistry in championing transparency and diversity; and shares a giant darts nickname.
  
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• Bill Ackman strikes $2.1bn deal for insurer in bid to build ‘modern Berkshire Hathaway’

  18-12-2025 15:32 via ft.com
  Hedge fund billionaire says acquisition of Vantage is milestone in effort to transform real estate company Howard Hughes
  
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• UK financial watchdog to increase scrutiny of home and travel insurers

  18-12-2025 12:57 via ft.com
  FCA responds to super-complaint from Which? amid concerns over poor customer service
  
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• FCA commits to expanded work in response to Which? super-complaint

  18-12-2025 12:06
  The Financial Conduct Authority has promised to do more work on improving claims handling and consumer understanding of cover in light of Which? hitting the watchdog with a super-complaint about the ‘broken’ home and travel insurance markets.
  
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• Energy specialist MGA Volt expands binder adding power construction

  18-12-2025 11:40
  Managing general agent Volt Underwriting has renewed and increased its binder to underwrite conventional and renewable power generation and midstream risks, adding power construction.
  
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• Clear Group co-founder Lickens to retire

  18-12-2025 11:22
  The Clear Group has announced that Howard Lickens, co-founder of the business with Gary O’Donnell, will retire at the end of this year.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Allianz Personal’s Graham Wright

  18-12-2025 10:17 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Graham Wright, managing director – broker (interim) at Allianz Personal, acknowledges customers have benefited from the soft market, muses about whether consolidation has suppressed new entrants and keeps his cards close to his chest over the insurer’s plans for 2026.
  
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• Mindful placement in a soft market – why discipline still matters

  17-12-2025 17:13 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Soft markets demand sharper thinking to avoid a false sense of security and complacency, argues John Dunn, managing director of distribution and market management at The Clear Group and Brokerbility.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: SSP Broker’s Martyn Mathews

  17-12-2025 14:52
  SSP Broker managing director Martyn Mathews crosses his fingers for the roll-out of a pilot insurance-in-education programme in 10-20 secondary schools, and looks to Star Trek for AI-related inspiration.
  
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• £40m GWP broker eyes first acquisition after securing growth funding

  17-12-2025 12:47
  Lytham-headquartered Tower Insurance Brokers has secured a multi-million pound growth funding facility from TDC.
  
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• Esure CEO Martin-Smith to depart as Ageas unveils new direct MD

  17-12-2025 12:03 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Ageas UK has announced that the Esure CEO Peter Martin-Simon is to leave the company in April next year six months after taking up the role.
  
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• Esure CEO Martin-Simon to depart as Ageas unveils new direct MD

  17-12-2025 12:03 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Ageas UK has announced that the Esure CEO Peter Martin-Simon is to leave the company in April next year six months after taking up the role.
  
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• Bravo Networks launches startup broker proposition

  17-12-2025 11:59
  Bravo Networks has launched a proposition designed to help insurance brokers enter the market and build an independent business at pace, planning to scale up to 75 partners in the next five years, Insurance Age can reveal.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: SiriusPoint International’s Rob Gibbs

  17-12-2025 10:46
  Rob Gibbs, president and CEO of SiriusPoint International, highlights its success in rejecting the ‘spread betting’ approach to MGAs and instead partnering with ones that are really moving the dial; and suggests ‘Another soft market: Are we all delulu?’ as the theme for Biba 2026.
  
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• Fuzzy’s Bilney targets ‘brave’ £10m GWP goal and launching a training school

  16-12-2025 16:05
  Liz Bilney, CEO of Fuzzy, has set a “brave” target of £10m gross written premium, and outlined plans to continue staff development by creating an in-house training school.
  
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• JMG adds SafeSchool to risk management portfolio

  16-12-2025 15:15
  JMG Group has bought specialist education-focused health and safety consultancy SafeSchool.
  
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• AIG adds Clifford after Neal U-turn

  16-12-2025 14:33 via insuranceage.co.uk
  American International Group has appointed Adam Clifford as CEO of international commercial insurance as he rejoins the insurer in the latest leadership development since the recruitment of John Neal was called off.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Direct Commercial’s Joe Hantson

  16-12-2025 13:05
  Joe Hantson, deputy CEO at Direct Commercial Limited, notes the amount of senior underwriting talent moving from traditional carriers into MGA models over the last 12 months and expects more consolidation among MGAs and insurtechs in 2026.
  
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• Ageas and Saga partnership goes live with motor, home to follow

  16-12-2025 11:23
  Ageas UK and Saga have launched their 20 year Affinity Partnership, opening with motor new business with home to follow in the first quarter of 2026.
  
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