Insurance Technology Diary Archive
Insurance data and technology commentary and news from Quotech Founder Guillaume Bonnissent.
Episode 65: Ask and Ye Shall Not Receive
Way back in 2008, Starbucks was in trouble. The recession was hitting hard, prompting a lot of people to decide they didn’t any longer…
Episode 64: The trouble with pegs and holes
Last week the London Market Group launched consultation on the structure and fields necessary to extend its Core Data Record project to claims.
Episode 63: Share the wealth
Insurance is hard (harder, arguably, than any other sector) because we don’t know the price of the product before we sell it.
Episode 62: Backwards solutions
I was only nine when the storm known in insurance circles as 87-J put the lights out in millions of homes across France and England…
Episode 61: Millennium perdition
People of my generation will remember Windows ME, the ‘Millennium Edition’ of the ubiquitous operating system, without fondness.
Episode 60: Get with the program
Whilst decompressing in my hotel room during a work visit to Canada a number of years ago, I was struck by a TV ad on the Canadian…
Episode 59: A tale of two reasons
I guess I’m responsible for my son’s extraordinary ambitions about building motor cars. They began within the bounds of reason…
Episode 58: MGAs are the future
A recent bit of “thought leadership” about MGAs got me thinking about the structure and its future. Positioned as myth busting, the little…
Episode 57: AI learning curve-ball
I was fortunate and fascinated, nearly a decade ago, to meet Sir David Rowland, saviour of Lloyd’s. For readers who don’t know the name…
