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• Opinion: Tackling terror

  24-05-2017 13:53
  Like a shapeshifting monster, the face of terrorism in the Western
  world has changed again with Monday night's devastating attack
  on young concert goers leaving Manchester Arena.
  The November 2015 attacks in Paris awoke security services - and
  insurers providing coverage - to the growing threat from single or
  small groups of armed assailants targeting relatively wide
  areas.
  And then came the use of vehicles as a weapon, which crashed
  into the Western consciousness with the massacre at the Bastil
  
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• Financial lines MGA Verde Risk Management launches

  14-01-2026 15:46 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Verde Risk Management has launched specialising in the financial lines market, predominantly commercial crime, management liability and financial institutions.
  
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• Lloyd’s broker Servca acquires specialist PI book

  14-01-2026 14:30 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Superian Insurance Group has acquired the renewal rights for O3 Specialty, a broker that specialises in professional indemnity cover for financial advisers.
  
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• CII to move to new headquarters in London

  14-01-2026 12:41 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The Chartered Insurance Institute Group will move its global HQ and London base to 30 Old Broad Street in the City of London from 2 March 2026.
  
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• Cyber remains top business risk but AI rising fast in Allianz Risk Barometer

  14-01-2026 12:18 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Cyber incidents created many headlines in 2025 and are still the biggest worry for UK companies in 2026, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer.
  
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• MGA founder replaces outgoing PIB underwriting and distribution CEO Burgess

  14-01-2026 12:14 via insuranceage.co.uk
  PIB Group is promoting Chris Jackson to become CEO of its underwriting and distribution business.
  
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• Fenchurch boss highlights importance of risk education and opportunities for 2026

  14-01-2026 10:38 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Fenchurch Insurance Brokers managing director Jamie Coyne plans to hit the £27m GWP mark in 2026 shifting away from smaller premium accounts, as the broker targets expansion in construction and sees opportunities in food and drink, and manufacturing.
  
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• Prudential names Douglas Flint as chair

  14-01-2026 06:11
  The former HSBC executive will succeed Shriti Vadera
  
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• Do I really need life insurance?

  14-01-2026 06:00
  I’m young, single and live a healthy lifestyle
  
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• Inflexion and Ascend look to build ‘home where best brokers want to be’

  13-01-2026 17:19 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Dominic Clark, investment director at Inflexion has targeted building the home the best brokers want to join, after buying Ascend Broking Group.
  
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• Axa UK recruits Dunn from Zurich to replace retiring commercial CUO Ovenden

  13-01-2026 16:36
  Axa UK Commercial has recruited Zurich’s Caroline Dunn as chief underwriting officer to replace the retiring incumbent, David Ovenden.
  
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• Markel launches life science combined

  13-01-2026 12:09
  Markel has launched life science combined created specifically for SMEs operating in the sector.
  
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• Amiga Specialty boosts financial institutions offering with Lloyd’s capacity

  13-01-2026 11:12 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Amiga Specialty has secured Lloyd’s capacity to support its financial institutions proposition as the managing general agent continues to expand its offering since being launched last year.
  
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• PE house Inflexion to invest £200m in new broker M&A platform

  13-01-2026 10:23 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Inflexion, a European mid-market private equity firm, has launched an insurance broker platform looking to deploy £200m in M&A investment over the next four to five years, beginning with acquiring Ascend Broking Group.
  
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• Video Q&A: Arch’s Mark McGrady on the importance of getting to know customers in the emerging liability space

  13-01-2026 10:20 via insuranceage.co.uk
  In this video – the last in a three part series – Mark McGrady, liability underwriting manager, UK regions, Arch discusses the opportunities in the emerging liability space.
  
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• Video Q&A: Arch’s Mark McGrady on the importance getting to know customers in the emerging liability space

  13-01-2026 10:20
  In this video – the last in a three part series – Mark McGrady, liability underwriting manager, UK regions, Arch discusses the opportunities in the emerging liability space.
  
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• JMG spend on deals surges to new high in year before PE investment

  12-01-2026 15:55 via insuranceage.co.uk
  JMG Group spent £89.62m on buying in 2024/25, the financial year ahead of private equity firm GTCR investing alongside existing backer PE house Synova and the broker’s leadership team.
  
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• Circle within a whisker of £10m turnover

  12-01-2026 15:49 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The parent company of Circle Insurance Services grew turnover in the year ended 30 April 2025 as profits recovered compared to the prior period.
  
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• QBE gets ready to launch into media PI

  12-01-2026 12:30
  QBE is preparing to launch into the media professional indemnity market and has recruited two underwriters ahead of rolling out the product.
  
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• Nexus buys medical tourism specialist MGA

  12-01-2026 11:42
  Brown & Brown-owned managing general agent Nexus Underwriting has bought Sure Insurance Services, a provider of specialist solutions for the medical tourism industry.
  
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• Robins Row boss reveals details of buying liquidated broker’s renewal rights

  12-01-2026 10:51 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Peter Evelyn, managing director of Robins Row, has shared how the deal to acquire MPI Brokers’ renewal rights came to be and revealed the size of the book.
  
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• Why Italy is turning its insurance giant into a pawn of power politics

  12-01-2026 06:00
  Billionaire Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone and allies are close to gaining control of Generali
  
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• AIG edges back towards risk two decades after financial crisis bailout

  11-01-2026 06:00
  Nascent strategic shift complicated by sudden departure of chief who led group’s rebirth as a US-focused insurer
  
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• Seventeen Group boosted turnover but losses widened in run-up to PE investment

  09-01-2026 15:33 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Seventeen Group grew turnover by 16.4% to £52.76m in 2024 helped by 11 acquisitions however the cost of the deals hit the bottom line.
  
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• Gallagher names Belfast and Bristol office bosses

  09-01-2026 12:46 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Gallagher has appointed Michael McLaverty as head of its Belfast office and expanded Mark Holmes’s role to include being managing director of the Bristol office.
  
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• SRG starts 2026 buying with Kennett

  09-01-2026 11:44 via insuranceage.co.uk
  In its first deal of the year, Specialist Risk Group has agreed to buy Kennett Insurance & Risk Management, which has offices in Hull and Leeds.
  
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• People Moves: 5 – 9 January 2026

  09-01-2026 11:02 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Keep up to date with the latest personnel moves in insurance.
  
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• Interview: Phil Barton and Ewan MacDonald, Partners&

  09-01-2026 10:35 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Partners& leaders Phil Barton and Ewan MacDonald on phase three of the broker as it hits profitability ahead of schedule and plans to near double in the next three years.
  
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• KGM boss doubles down on Zurich deal, eyeing ‘never-ending conveyor belt of opportunities’

  08-01-2026 17:32 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Zurich has remained the sole capacity provider of KGM, as Ciaran Astin, managing director of the MGA, has targeted ramping up to £500m by 2030 through a “never-ending conveyor belt of opportunities”.
  
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• Partners& seals first deal of 2026 with North East buy

  08-01-2026 17:31 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Partners& has made its first acquisition of the year with the purchase of STP Risk Solutions, a chartered insurance broker based in Hull.
  
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