Episode 26: Digital judgement

Episode 26: Digital judgement

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 26: Digital judgement Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Very early in my career I shadowed a motor fleet underwriter, sitting next to him on the box at Lloyd’s. I learned more about underwriting that day than any...
Episode 25: Interfacial relations

Episode 25: Interfacial relations

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 25: Interfacial relations Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary Descended from Abyssinian gazelles, the last quadruped with unicorn DNA – the rarest animal of all – is the pushmi-pullyu. The horned, llama-like...
Episode 24: Beware innoventors bearing gifts

Episode 24: Beware innoventors bearing gifts

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 24: Beware innoventors bearing gifts Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary About 400 years ago an Englishman named William Gilbert wrote a book called De Magnete. It was the definitive guide to electricity, and included...
Episode 23: Play your cards right

Episode 23: Play your cards right

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 23: Play your cards right Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary I had an old great aunt who always used to append a piece of avuncular wisdom to the Christmas wish she scrawled, in her spidery handwriting, to each year’s...
Episode 22: Make it bendy

Episode 22: Make it bendy

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 22: Make it bendy Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance Technology Diary I read with amusement this week that Symphony Risk Solutions, the US brokerage, has appointed a director of cannabis solutions. I chuckled because, in my decades as...