InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

Oct 27 2024 300 ep. 30 mins 91
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A weekly interview hosted by Matthew Grant peeking behind the curtain of what‘s going on with some of the most well know companies - and some the newest - from in and around insurance, technology, data and investment.

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George Devereese, Product Management Director: S&P Global Market Intelligence: Shining light on dark shipping activity (326)

Oct 27 2024 24 mins  
How do you shed light on ‘dark shipping activity’? S&P Global Market Intelligence aims to support insurers throughout the entire insurance value chain by providing critical data and insights. Matthew Grant is joined by George Devereese, who monitors and tracks shipping around the world to screen them against various forms of liabilities. This data is passed onto markets suc

Benjamin Turner & Thomas Swire: Salesforce: More than just a CRM (325)

Oct 19 2024 23 mins  
Ben Turner joked that he’d “be a rich man for every pound [he] had somebody asking” what Salesforce has to offer the insurance world. Robin Merttens is joined this week by Ben Turner and Tom Swire at Salesforce, who touch on their journey to joining the company, the trouble with legacy systems and the exciting prospects for the future including an agency management system to

Ben Laidlaw, Managing Director: Carbon Underwriting: The Delegated Underwriting Specialists (324)

Oct 12 2024 22 mins  
Determined to write delegated business better, Ben Laidlaw joined Nick Tye and Jacqui Ferrier to found Carbon Underwriting. Carbon Underwriting is a Lloyd’s Syndicate MGU that provides shareable underwriting conclusions on its Graphene administration system. The company has matured since its conception in 2018, and Ben discusses navigating ‘Decile 10’ to gaining approval for

Liselotte Munk, CEO: Fadata: Expanding to new horizons (323)

Oct 05 2024 19 mins  
Fadata’s CEO, Liselotte Munk, returns to the InsTech podcast with Robin Merttens to discuss the company’s recent developments, including its expansion to APAC and South America. Discover in this episode the intricacies of running a policy admin system provider, where Liselotte thinks the market is heading to next and the challenges with entering new regions. Key talking points

Mike Hobday, CEO: Insurants: Falling in love with document processing (322)

Sep 28 2024 26 mins  
According to Mike Hobday, CEO of Insurants, the company is “a bit like being the Google Translator of the commercial insurance market”. Insurants is developed by Antworks in collaboration with Marsh McLennan to help commercial insurance companies manage and process their documents. This week, Matthew caught up with Mike, who previously having spent 12 years at IBM, witnessed ea

Gilbert Harrap & Michael Watson: InsurX: Smart Syndication and Wise Owls (321)

Sep 21 2024 22 mins  
This week we are combining youthful enthusiasm with sage wisdom on the podcast, as Robin Merttens speaks to InsurX’s CEO, Gilbert Harrap and Chairman, Michael Watson. InsurX is a platform that enables insurers and brokers to undertake portfolio underwriting, automated contract binding, algorithmic underwriting and instant risk matching. Touching on the importance of driving digit

Yann Barbarroux, Co-founder & CEO: Otonomi: Parametric payout for a disrupted world (320)

Sep 14 2024 38 mins  
According to Yann Barbarroux, Co-founder and CEO of Otonomi, “every year is like starting a new company”. It has been a year since we last caught up with Otonomi, and Matthew reconnects with Yann to discuss how parametric insurance helps mitigate supply chain risks, particularly in situations where traditional insurance falls short. Key topics include: Addressing pain points in

Nicola Turner, Co-founder & COO, Scrub AI: Cleaning up your dirty data (319)

Sep 07 2024 34 mins  
At InsTech, we love featuring founders who took matters into their own hands to solve the problems they encountered. This episode shines a spotlight on one such entrepreneur who did just that. In the insurance industry, manually cleaning data remains a costly and time-consuming challenge. To explore this issue, Matthew Grant sits down with Nicola Turner, CEO and Co-founder of Scrub

Martin Reith, Chairman: Artificial Labs: Martin’s market musings - some lead and others follow (318)

Aug 31 2024 31 mins  
Next month, Martin Reith will mark 40 years in the London Market. As he approaches this significant milestone, we sat down with him to discuss his journey into the industry, his most notable achievements, his decision to become Chairman of Artificial Labs, and his thoughts on the challenges of modernising the London Market. We also explored his strong advocacy for algorithms and th

Marcus Ryu, Co-founder and Chairman at Guidewire and Partner: Battery Ventures: Beating the odds, revealing the secrets of successful entrepreneurs (317)

Aug 24 2024 32 mins  
What does it take to build a company like Guidewire or attract investor interest? This week, Matthew Grant talks with Marcus Ryu, Co-founder and Chairman of Guidewire, and Partner at Battery Ventures. Marcus, one of Guidewire's five founders, shares his experiences from starting the company in 2002 and the lessons he learned along the way. In this episode, Marcus discusses his shif