Insurance Technology Diary Archive
Insurance data and technology commentary and news from Quotech Founder Guillaume Bonnissent.
Episode 41: Chow down at the Prudence Buffet
I expect our world of insurance to be a little bit less colourful soon, since two of its most outspoken leaders have elected to retire.
Episode 40: Numbers game
Does Matthew Benham think data is more important than talent when it comes to winning football Trophies?
Episode 39: Edward Lloyd, insurTech founder
Back in the early 1690s, Edward Lloyd, a coffee shop entrepreneur, had a brilliant idea about how to sell more coffee. He would put all…
Episode 38: Sink or swim
Last week I went to visit a prospective client. As in all such fact-finding meetings, I began by asking the team about the functionality…
Episode 37: Embrace your inner disruptor
I wasn’t born in 1964, the year Hollywood made the movie Seven Days in May, but curiosity compelled me to blow three quid to rent it on…
Episode 36: Earn your go-faster stripes
Back in 2107, Lloyd’s banned alcohol between 9:00 and 5:00. But the gnomes of Lime Street were only following a precedent set by…
Episode 35: Bleeding obvious
I dipped in and out of an old Encyclopaedia Britannica to learn English when I was young. To my mind those oversized, mould-smelling books…
Episode 34: Say what??
“That’s sick, papa,” my son said to me the other day. I thought I’d been reprimanded. When I asked what was nauseating about…
Episode 33: Fish, and chips off the old block
I imagine the whale had a happy but loud and scary kind of voice: “Come right, here little fish.I’m peckish. You’re small, but you’ll do…
