Clare Ruel

Dec 10, 2024 | insurancetimes.co.uk | Clare Ruel

’Insurers and price comparison businesses are able to tell their stories with creative freedom with a multiformat approach,’ says managing director of financial services Google is urging insurers to use YouTube to build stronger connections with customers. David Black, managing director of financial services at Google, told Insurance Times that using the platform could help insurers ”navigate a highly competitive market with success”.

Dec 5, 2024 | insurancetimes.co.uk | Clare Ruel

If legacy technology is not updated coherently across the supply chain, this could ’create inconsistent customer experiences at different points in the customer journey’, says law firm chief executive According to the 2024 Industry Trends Report, published by insurance software company Earnix in November 2024, modernising legacy technology systems is the biggest challenge for insurers today – 49% of the 431 global insurance executive respondents added that they were behind schedule with their...

Dec 3, 2024 | insurancetimes.co.uk | Clare Ruel

The new appointee will be based in London to support growth agendaUS-based insurtech Maptycs has hired Daniel Grimwood-Bird to be its new chief revenue officer, to lead its UK and European expansion. Grimwood-Bird, who will operate out of London, stepped into his new role in November 2024. In this position, he will head up the insurtech’s sales and marketing function, as well as look to steer Maptycs’ expanision into Europe.

Dec 2, 2024 | insurancetimes.co.uk | Clare Ruel

’I am confident that his leadership, expertise and drive will play an instrumental role in MIB’s development and future success in serving the insurance industry and its customers,’ says chief executive The Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) has made Harkamal Phagura its permanent chief financial officer, after he joined the executive team in March in an interim role. Phagura will continue to lead the firm’s central services function, which incorporates finance, legal, procurement and facilities.

Nov 28, 2024 | insurancetimes.co.uk | Clare Ruel

’Generative AI [is] able to get all that unstructured data and make structured elements – [it] fuels the ability to create models,’ says senior vice-president Predictive models built using generative artificial intelligence (AI) form the backbone of market “overperformers”, according to Leo Tenenblat, senior vice-president and general manager of data and analytics at software company Guidewire.