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Keith Stonell

Managing Director, EMEA

Guidewire

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Insurtech and Bots in 2018: Should insurers dream of electric sheep?

The movie Blade Runner (and the novel it is based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) depicts a future world where artificial intelligence is taking over. It is a striking dystopia where robots – the replicants – have more humanity than their human masters. Reimagining the future of insurance can get a little bleak too. Insurers might be con...

08 December 2017 /ai Fintech innovation and startups

Will GDPR hinder KYC for Insurers?

GDPR. These letters are increasingly visible in the media. When it comes into force on 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply to all EU member states, including the UK. Its aim is to standardise and strengthen data protection for all individuals within the EU; it also addresses the export of personal data outside...

30 October 2017 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues

Rise of Financial Services Insurtech Mirrors Medieval Peasants' Lives

Historians use eras to help map out the big gearshifts in economic and social change in retrospect. For the people who lived during those periods, well-known historical terms like the Middle Ages would have been unknown. For example, a medieval peasant knew they were a peasant but not that they were a medieval peasant. Medieval was a term first co...

08 September 2017 Fintech

Digitalisation, not Brexit, London Market's biggest challenge

Next year is the fortieth anniversary of when Lloyd’s decided to make a dramatic, concrete and steel statement about its past and future. 1978 was the year work started on Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s Building. This striking building encased iconic elements of the old market, like the Lutine Bell and the Committee Room, within brash post-modern archite...

07 August 2017 Innovation in Financial Services

Insurers: Be Brave and Creative

I recently hosted our annual European customer conference, focussing on thought leadership, emerging technology trends and Insurtech innovation. We talked a great deal about the major trends in insurance and there were many highlights about how insurers are digitizing the running of their businesses and interaction with customers. This kind of even...

05 June 2017 Fintech

Generation uninsured: what are the challenges and opportunities for the insurance industry?

The UK is becoming a country of renters rather than home-owners according to a recent government whitepaper. The proportion of people living in the private rented sector has doubled since 2000 and just 26% of those aged 20-39 will own their own home by 2025. According to the Resolution Foundation, twenty five years ago fewer than one in ten fam...

31 March 2017 Trends in Financial Services

Everybody’s talking Blockchain. What does it promise for Insurance?

There is a huge amount of buzz around blockchain and many explanations out there for what it is, and its likely benefits for financial services, especially banking and finance. A blockchain, according to the excellent Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott, basically allows you to send money directly and safely from me to you. That’s withou...

09 January 2017