The Big Question: What were the most unexpected takeaways from the Biba Conference 2025?
Following another energetic and well attended Biba Conference in Manchester this May, industry leaders reflect on the most surprising moments from across the two-day conference
Further reading
Biba 2025: The real challenge with MGAs is building longevity to 'reduce volatility'– Lockton’s Clarissa Franks
A ‘six-month lag’ while MGAs review broker collaboration opportunities with capacity partners is ’deeply problematic’, says broker’s head of UK P&C retail
Biba 2025: Mitigating dynamic risk with AI and data the future of insurance
‘There’s a huge opportunity to almost redefine what insurance is and brokers will lead that,’ says chief executive
Briefing: Brokers must bolster commercial cyber cover takeup
Promoting simplicity, collaboration and storytelling is a strong strategy brokers could employ to support cyber cover penetration among UK businesses
Briefing: Out with the old and in with the new
Brokers must be proactive when it comes to grasping and attracting new talent – especially as broking is such a people driven line of work
Briefing: ‘Climate breakdown’ puts pressure on insurers – but is timely, country-wide risk management achievable?
Popular naturalist tells Lloyd’s event that the UK is not feeling ‘enough pain’ to take suitable risk mitigation action against flooding
Briefing: High profile attacks represent penetration opportunity for cyber market
The sector should ’never waste a good crisis’, says MGA distribution director
Biba 2025: Tokio Marine HCC strives to secure three facilities with brokers in 2025
The insurer’s international head of distribution believes the business needs ‘to whisper a little bit louder’ than it has done in the past to attract greater brand recognition and better promote broker partnership opportunities
Richard Breavington: Exposure, appetite and uptake – the changing strategy of insurers in the cyber market
Cyber specialist and RPC partner talks cyber insurance, ransomware and how insurers are changing their strategies to get the most from the market
Mike Bottle: Arch’s UK regional MD on bringing international scale to bear
’You’ve got to be committed to the proposition because if you lose sight of what the broker wants, then you very quickly lose momentum,’ says recently promoted leader
The Big Question: What were the most unexpected takeaways from the Biba Conference 2025?
Following another energetic and well attended Biba Conference in Manchester this May, industry leaders reflect on the most surprising moments from across the two-day conference
Live chat rise and lost phone calls show digital tension in commercial lines
TechTalk: Capacity providers ‘more willing to experiment with insurtechs’ – but bar for collaboration is set high
Richard Breavington: Exposure, appetite and uptake – the changing strategy of insurers in the cyber market
Briefing: Is embedded cover the answer to SME underinsurance?
TechTalk: Agentic AI presents a sink or swim moment for insurance sector
Softening market sees commercial premiums drop in all but one UK region
The Big Question: What were the most unexpected takeaways from the Biba Conference 2025?
Briefing: ‘Climate breakdown’ puts pressure on insurers – but is timely, country-wide risk management achievable?
In Focus: How important is it for insurance to move beyond indemnity and into risk mitigation?
Briefing: High profile attacks represent penetration opportunity for cyber market
BMS Group eyes UK retail growth following DR&P acquisition
In Focus: Concussion in sport – The legal test cases that could reshape liability risk
Briefing: Brokers must bolster commercial cyber cover takeup
Latest GI complaints data shows improvements – but redress and resolution delays increase
Brokers reveal 2025’s best and worst commercial lines insurers
Briefing: Sector-wide PR facelift could contribute to futureproofing skills and talent
Biba 2025: Tokio Marine HCC strives to secure three facilities with brokers in 2025
Mansion impossible: Temporary HNW housing shortage tests industry agility
Briefing: Current risk climate must not push global warming down insurers’ risk agenda
Live chat rise and lost phone calls show digital tension in commercial lines
TechTalk: Capacity providers ‘more willing to experiment with insurtechs’ – but bar for collaboration is set high
Opinion: FCA flexing trigger finger around section 166 driven enforcement
Music equipment theft under the mic-roscope as claims severity escalates
Richard Breavington: Exposure, appetite and uptake – the changing strategy of insurers in the cyber market
Broker profitability rises as growth slows
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