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• News analysis: To what extent have brokers bought into Flood Re’s Build Back Better scheme?

  10-04-2025 17:14 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Flood specialists warn of a persistent knowledge gap among general brokers, but highlight that more providers need to make the Build Back Better scheme available. Ida Axling reports.
  
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• Ageas and Saga partnership goes live with motor, home to follow

  16-12-2025 11:23 via insuranceage.co.uk
  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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• Aviva partners with Percayso on data enrichment

  16-12-2025 11:22 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Aviva has partnered with Percayso Inform to enhance its data enrichment capabilities, in a multi-year deal.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Liiba’s Chris Croft

  16-12-2025 10:51 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Chris Croft, the CEO of the London & International Insurance Brokers’ Association, describes the UK government’s financial services strategy as “depressingly insurer focused” and imagines an AI persona with a 1986 style perm in honour of footballer Charlie Nicholas.
  
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• Zurich names former financial services leader as new UK COO

  15-12-2025 17:09
  Zurich UK has appointed Paul Norcott as chief operations officer, joining the executive committee with immediate effect.
  
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• Zurich names former financial services leader as new ops chief

  15-12-2025 17:09
  Zurich UK has appointed Paul Norcott as chief operations director, joining the executive committee with immediate effect.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Alps’ Michelle O’Reilly

  15-12-2025 17:08
  Michelle O’Reilly, managing director at Alps expresses disappointment that whilst some parts of the market have talked a good game on innovation and customer care, they have not followed through; and predicts 2026 could be the year the FCA steps in with tougher measures on home insurance claim declinatures.
  
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• Have your say: Shape the future of Insurance Age

  15-12-2025 14:57 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Insurance Age is inviting you to help shape its future by taking part in a short readership survey.
  
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• EY offers gloomier forecast for 2026 motor market with latest analysis

  15-12-2025 12:07
  The UK motor insurance market is expected to only break even in 2025, and be loss-making in 2026, according to EY’s latest analysis.
  
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• MyFirst partners with Howden for young driver service

  15-12-2025 11:28 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Howden has joined forces with MyFirst as its young driver partner to provide a “tailored service" across its local UK branches.
  
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• Howden replaces Douglas as climate and resilience lead with new impact officer

  15-12-2025 11:24 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Howden has appointed Nick Stace OBE to the newly created role of chief global impact officer.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Flood Re’s Kelly Ostler-Coyle

  15-12-2025 11:19
  Kelly Ostler-Coyle, director of corporate affairs, Flood Re bemoans the fact that not enough brokers are talking to clients about Build Back Better and pays respect to “the Welsh titan of the insurance industry” Amanda Blanc.
  
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• Premium Credit signs up another top 100 broker

  15-12-2025 10:57 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Premium Credit has signed a three-year agreement to be One Sure’s exclusive provider of premium finance for personal lines.
  
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• The stats: Commercial rates reduce significantly in Q3 2025

  12-12-2025 17:07
  The value of a typical commercial book of business has fallen for the first time since 2018, driven by negative premium movements in commercial combined, property owners and combined liability, reports Ida Axling.
  
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• New roles for Tonge and Grazier as Bspoke reshapes management structure

  12-12-2025 14:47 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Bspoke Group has named Nick Grazier as group sales and marketing director and Wayne Tonge as group commercial managing director.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Open GI’s Neil Hart

  12-12-2025 13:57 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Neil Hart, chief sales officer at Open GI, reflects on the ‘old chestnut’ that the cheapest cover isn’t always the best and suggests ‘His Highness’ as his darts alter ego for the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace.
  
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• Meet the MGA: Arrow Risk Management

  12-12-2025 12:23
  Arrow Risk Management CEO Jon Godfray explains how the MGA combines decades of expertise, cutting edge technology and underwriting excellence to create what he hopes the market recognises as a ‘quality shop’.
  
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• US insurer to target new brokers with company market play

  12-12-2025 11:07 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Westfield Specialty International has announced plans to expand its business from a Lloyd’s-only vehicle into the company market.
  
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• People Moves: 8 – 12 December 2025

  12-12-2025 10:43 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Stay in the loop with the latest insurance personnel moves.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: VIPR’s Paul Templar

  12-12-2025 10:41 via insuranceage.co.uk
  VIPR CEO and co-founder Paul Templar is impressed by the MGAs publicly committing to modernisation and brokers championing data transparency; whilst also paying homage to British mathematician Ada Lovelace.
  
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• Natixis and Generali end talks over asset management tie-up

  11-12-2025 21:07
  Joint venture would have brought together two of Europe’s biggest investment groups
  
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• Natixis and Generali poised to scrap asset management tie-up

  11-12-2025 16:43
  Joint venture would have brought together two of biggest European investment groups
  
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• Podcast: Reid and Clegg present Double Indemnity – episode six, Admiral’s Henry Engelhardt

  11-12-2025 13:18 via insuranceage.co.uk
  For the sixth episode of Double Indemnity, Stuart Reid and Toby Clegg sit down with the Admiral CEO Emeritus Henry Engelhardt, who offers insights into why a “can do” and “think big” attitude, alongside deliberately targeting drivers paying higher premiums, was such a recipe for success at the insurer he co-founded.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Premium Credit’s Owen Thomas

  11-12-2025 13:16 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Owen Thomas, chief sales officer at Premium Credit, applauds how Biba and the FCA have collaborated this year, suggests a top 5 commercial insurer might get snapped up in 2026 and predicts great things for Lee Mooney at Markel.
  
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• Zurich signs five-year £350m specialist fleet capacity extension deal with Pen

  11-12-2025 11:57
  Pen Underwriting has extended its capacity deal with Zurich, in a partnership that will enable the managing general agent to write more than £350m in premium over the next five years focusing on specialist fleet risks.
  
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• No punching the air, just a sense of relief – broker leaders on ex-employee fraudster being jailed

  11-12-2025 10:40 via insuranceage.co.uk
  On 20 November this year ex-Invicta Insurance Services employee Leon Price was sentenced to a total of five years and three months in prison for stealing over £133,000. The broker's managing director Tigi Singhateh and operations director Adrian Best detail the investigation that brought their former colleague to justice.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Commercial Express’ Duncan Pritchard

  11-12-2025 10:00
  Commercial Express founder and managing director Duncan Pritchard bemoans inconsistent claims service and suggests ‘Rizzilience: Confidence in a Changing Market’ for the 2026 Biba Conference theme.
  
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• Non-Financial Misconduct rules and what they mean for the insurance Christmas party

  10-12-2025 17:20
  Isabelle Macfarlane, head of London Markets at Insurance Compliance Services, outlines how incoming NFM guidelines may work in practice as we head into the busy Christmas party season.
  
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• Government’s motor insurance taskforce report sparks ‘fudge’ and ‘credible job’ reactions

  10-12-2025 13:54 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The government has published its Motor Insurance Taskforce Report, whose work has been both praised as a “credible job” and slammed as “rehash” and a “fudge”.
  
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• Howden hires from Gallagher to target $600m space insurance market

  10-12-2025 13:51 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Howden has established a new dedicated space insurance capability led by industry veteran Clive Strickland.
  
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